CHAPTER XII.

THE ISLES OF SHOALS--_continued._

Excursion to Smutty Nose.--Piracy in New England Waters.--Blackbeard.--Thomas Morton's Banishment.--Religious Liberty _vs._ License.--Custom of the May-pole.--Samuel Haley.--Spanish Wreck on Smutty Nose.--Graves of the Unknown.--Terrible Tragedy on the Island.--Appledore.--Its ancient Settlement.--Smith's Cairn.--Duck Island.--Londoner's.--Thomas B. Laighton.--Mrs. Thaxter.--Light-houses in 1793.--White Island.--Story of a Wreck. 175