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� piled up the shells in the manner you describe without having dealt in dried oysters with the white man at all? I can conceive of Honembega as an Indian center of some importance at Pemaquid but I am skeptical of a Portuguese, Spanish Or Basque town there which could possibly have escaped being in some written record no matter how secret. The pavements are puzzling of course but how could Dunbar in his voluminous letters have failed to mention them- unless indeed they were even then buried. But they seem to me to follow in design remarkably the cellars and streets which his Irishmen built, if Thomas Walls' detailed map of which I have a phostat from the Public Record office, is to be trusted. And is the design of the fort too far from that oof some of the Irish towers still in existence in Ireland.

    Your spring thesis seem to me to be a might keen guess.  I would

never have thought of it but I'd gamble that your hunch is correct.

    one thing I am sure of:  that the coast of Maine was the scene 

from the earliest times of some most exciting history. Your idea is a most challenging one with a remarkable array of widely scattered facts pointing to a single probability. Stranger things have been proven true. For the privilege of sharing your knowledge and speculations, I am grateful.

                                                        Yours most sincerely,
                                                        Robert E Moody