Norumbega

P. L. 10. 696. According to the Atlas of Blaeu (pp. 21, 36, maps) Norumbega the River Penobscot, Maine. His map of America gives it a somewhat wider extent. The name usually appears on the maps of the period. The fabulous or semi fabulous town of Norumbega is of uncertain situation, and various sites, from the Hudson to the Penobscot, have been proposed. The name has been revived in Norumbega Park, on is the land in the region of the Charles River, and Norumbega Cottage, at Wellesley College. For recent study of the subject see the references in the Encyclopedia American a, especially that to John Fiske, The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, pp. 69 ff.’ Purchas writes: “Moreover, towards the North (sayth the Authour, after hee had spoken of Virginia) is Norombega, which is knowne well enough, by reason of a faire Towne, and a great River. … At the mouth of this River there is an Hand very fit for fishing. The region that goeth along the Sea doth abound in fish, and towards New France there is great number of wilde beasts, and is very commodious for hunting; the inhabitants doe live in the same manner as they of New France. If this beaut i full Towne hath ever been in nature, I would faine knowe who hath pulled it downe: for there is but Cabines heere and there made with pearkes, and covered with barkes of trees, or with skinnes, and both the River and the place inhabited is called Pemptegoet.” {Pilgrimes 4. 1625.) Heylyn deals with it as follows: “Norumbega hath on the North-east Nova Scotia, on the South West Virginia. The air is of a good temper, the soil fruitful, and the people indifferently civil; all of them, as well men as women, painting their faces. The men are much affected to hunting; and therefore never give their daughters to any, unle he be well skilled in that game also. The Women are here very chast, and so well love their husbands that if at any time they chance to be slain, the widows will neither marry nor eat flesh, till that the death of their husbands be revenged. They both dance much; and for more nimblene , sometimes stark naked. The Sea upon the coasts so shallow and so full of sands, that it is very ill sailing all along these shores. The towns, or habitations rather, so differently called by the French, Portugals, and Spaniard, that there is not much certainty known of them. Yet most have formerly agreed upon Norumbegua, or Arampec, as the Natives call it; said to be a large, populous, and well-built town, and to be situate on a fair and capacious River of the same name also. But later Observations tell us there is no such matter; that the River which the first relations did intend, is called Pemptegonet, neither large nor pleasant; and that the place by them meant is called Agguncia, so far from being a fair City, that there are only a few Sheds or Cabins covered with the barks of trees or the skins of beasts. Howsoever I have let it stand on the first reports, it being po ible enough that the Town might fall into decay, deserted on the coming of so many several Pretenders; and that the Sheds or Cabins which the last men speak of may be the only remainders of it.” {Cosmography 4. 107.) Norway (Norwegia). P. L. 1. 203, 293; Tetrach. (Canon) 4. 280 Areopag. 4. 398; Hist. Brit. (1) 5. 21 (3)5.127; (5) 5.227,234 (6) 5. 240, 242, 255, 265 (twice), 266, 276 (twice), 287, 295 Lit. Senat. (30) 7. 218 (twice), 219 (thrice); Safe-cond. (thrice).; Norway was politically united with One of the chief products of the country has for In the time of Milton ch211.xhtml d 227