Excerpt from The Illustrated Catholic Family Almanac for the United States, for the Year of Our Lord 1874: Calculated for Different Parallels of Latitude, and Adapted for Use Throughout the Country The Plate from the corner-stone oi' the Chapel of Our Lady of Holy Hope, near Castine, Maine, found ed in 1648. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.