M.

Mackerel, habits of, [91].

Macy, Thomas, settles at Nantucket, [339].

"Magnalia," Mather's, Southey's opinion of, [93].

Maine, sea-coast of, [17], [18]; embraces Norumbega, Mavoshen, [18]; other names applied to her territory, [18]; French occupation of, [18]; her enterprise and products, [60]; part of Massachusetts, [68].

Maintenon, Madame de, intrigue with the Jesuits, [82], [83].

Malaga Island, [160].

Malbone, Colonel Godfrey, [408], [409].

Malbone, Edward G., [409].

Mananas Island, [104].

Manly, John, [251], [252].

Mansell, Sir Robert, mentioned, [34].

Marblehead, its conformation and topography, [228], [229], [230], [231]; Lafayette there, [229]; islands off the port, [231]; the Neck, [231]; annals and decay of the cod-fishery, [232], [233], [234], [235]; early settlement, [236], [241], [242]; described, [238], [239], [240], [241]; character of early fishermen, [243]; Goelet's account, [243]; Lee Mansion, [245], [246]; St. Michael's, [248]; the old sea-lions, [251], [252]; the dialect, [254]; Fort Sewall, [255]; Chesapeake and Shannon, [256], [257]; old burial-ground, [258]; perils of the fishery, [259], [260].

Marriage, first, in New England, [285].

Mashope, legend of, [349].

Mason, Captain John, [201].

Mason, John, attacks the Pequot stronghold, [429], note, [430].

Massachusetts Bay, alleged discovery of, [18], [22].

Massachusetts Historical Society, motive of its founding, [147].

Massasoit, entry into Plymouth, [293], [294].

Masse, Enemond, at Mount Desert, [35].

Mavoshen, Maine, so styled, [18].

Mayhew, Thomas, purchases Nantucket, [339]; owns Martha's Vineyard and Elizabeth Islands, [340].

May-pole, ancient custom of, [182].

M'Clary, Andrew, [144].

M'Lean, Colonel Francis, seizes and fortifies Castine, [67].

Mercator, atlas of, cited, [21].

Miantonimo makes war on Uncas, [435]; is killed, [436].

Miantonimo Hill, [407], [408].

Mohegan Indians, [436], [437].

Monhegan Island, probably seen and named in 1604, [92], [102]; early knowledge of, [102]; described, [104]; inscription at, [106]; naval battle near, [106], [107], [324].

Moody, Joseph, Handkerchief, [135].

Moody, Rev. Samuel, anecdote of, [135]; epitaph, [136].

Moore, Sir John, at Castine, [67]; Napoleon's opinion of, [68].

Morse, Rev. Jedediah, at the Shoals, [164]; describes curing fish, [174].

Morse, S. F. B., paints Landing of Pilgrims, [264].

Morton, Thomas, his banishment, [180], [181].

Mount Desert Island, discovered and named, [28]; Champlain's description of, [29]; mountain ranges, [29]-[32]; approach from Ellsworth, [31]; first settlers, [33]; road to South-west Harbor, [33], [34]; French colony on, [34], [35], [36]; shell-heaps at, [37]; neighborhood of South-west Harbor, [38], [39]; islands off Somes's Sound, [39]; Christmas on, [40], et seq.; route to Bar Harbor, [41], [42]; island nomenclature, [42]; islands off Bar Harbor, [43]; shore rambles to Schooner Head and Great Head, [43]-[48]; naturalists and artists who have visited, [48]-[50]; excursion to Otter Creek and North-east Harbor, [53], [54]; the Ovens, etc., [55], [56].

Mount Desert Rock, [53].

Mount Hope, [414], [415], [416].

Mugford, Captain James, [252], [253], [259].

Muscongus patent, history of, [60], [61].