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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
�piled up the shells in the [mannes] [?] you describe without having dealt in dried [oysters] [?] with the wluto man [of] [?] all? I can [cov] [?] of Novembega as an Indian center of some importance at Pemaquid but I am [skeptical] [?] of a Portuguese, [Spa] [?] or [Barque] [?] town there which could possibly have [excaped] [?] being in some written record no matter how secret. The [pavements are puzzling] [?] of course but how could [Dunbou] [?] in all of his [voluminous] [?] letters have failed to mention them - unless indeed they were even then [buried.] [?]