East Portland

Famous quotes containing the words east and/or portland:

“From the east to western Inde,
No jewel is like Rosalind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)