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�I find on looking over my notes that I place Machigon(ne) in the class of localities named after[word underlined] the whites occupied it -- with probable reference to Capt Levett's "greate store house" in 1623 on House Island,[two words underlined] or else another "storing house" built by one whom he pickled in his voyage into New England as "a knave," possibly built on the peninsula now Portland proper.

My idea of this whole subject is to get at not only the natural features of the place under discussion but the place as modified by man, either white or red. An example of the igan[word underlined] of egon[word underlined] is found on the Vineyard, Kuppi-igan or now Kephigan and even Cape Higgon (Coast Survey charts!). It was a part of a manor granted to the Mayhews who fenced it in[three words underlined] across the narrowest part - hence the shut-in, enclosed place so named after the act of the proprietors in enclosing their grant by an artificial or protective barrier like a palisade.