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Its extreme breadth is 210 miles, narrowing in the north to about half that distance.
New Brunswick and the St. Croix River form the eastern and northern boundary; the Canadian province of Quebec lies to the northwest, and New Hampshire to the west below lat. 45° 20′. Area, 33,040 square miles in sixteen counties.
Population, 1890, 661,086; 1900, 694,466.
Capital, Augusta, since 1832.
First Englishman known to have conducted an expedition to the shores of Maine, then Norumbega, was John Walker, in the service of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who reached the Penobscot River......1580
Speedwell and Discoverer, from Bristol, England, commanded by Martin Pring, enter Penobscot Bay and the mouth of a river, probably the Saco......June 7, 1603
Henry IV.
of France grants to Pierre de Gast Sieur de Monts all the territory between lat. 40° and 46° N., and appoints him governor of the country, which is called Acadia......Nov. 8, 1603
De Monts, accompanied by M. de Poutrincourt, and Sa