Title:  The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World

Author:  Harriet Vaughan Cheney

Release Date:  December 19, 2005 [EBook #17351]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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THE RIVALS OF ACADIA,

An
old story
of
the new world.

        When two authorities are up,
    Neither supreme, how soon confusion
    May enter ’twixt the gap of both, and take
    The one by the other.

        Shakspeare.

    Boston: 
    Wells and Lilly, court-Street.

    1827.

THE RIVALS OF ACADIA

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT

    District Clerk’s Office.

Be it remembered, that on the twenty sixth day of January, A.D. 1827, in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Wells and Lilly of the said district, have deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the Right whereof they claim as Proprietors in the Words following, to wit: 

“The Rivals of Acadia, an Old Story of the New World.

         When two authorities are up,
    Neither supreme, how soon confusion
    May enter ’twixt the gap of both, and take
    The one by the other Shakspeare.”

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled “An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned,” and also to an Act, entitled “An act supplementary to an Act, entitled, ’An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned,’ and extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical, and other Prints.”

    JNO.  W. Davis.
    Clerk of the District of Masachusetts.

THE

RIVALS OF ACADIA

CHAPTER I.

    Far on th’ horizon’s verge appears a speck—­
    A spot—­a mast—­a sail—­an armed deck! 
    Their little bark her men of watch descry,
    And ampler canvas woos the wind from high.