LB2016.15.1549

LB2016.15.1549

Pulpit Rock, So. Robbinston, Maine The sandstone cliffs of Mill Cove and Pulpit Rock cannot be better described than by geologist Charles Jackson in Maine’s first geological survey in 1837. It is a single mass of red sandstone thirty-eight feet high, and worn at its base so that it is but eighteen feet in diameter. Its summit, which is 21 feet in diameter, is clothed with verdure, and supports a number of forest trees. This tower has received the appellation of the Pulpit Rock.” Pulpit Rock has special significance to the Passamaquoddies. An article published in 1892 in the St Croix Courier authored by Mrs. Wallace Brown, an acknowledged expert on the tribal language and culture in the 1800’s, describes its importance. “The echoes that are often heard along the eastern shore of the Saint Croix are said to be the cries of an invisible ’Chee-M’taoulin, (Giant Witch); and at Lewy’s Cove, a place nearly opposite St. Andrews, there is a perpendicular ledge called Pulpit Rock, but known to the Indians as M’taoulin-Penobsqu’, on the top of which m’taoulin from different tribes met and held high carnival, although it is quite inaccessible to common humanity. The Bay of Fundy and its environs seem to have been peculiarly adapted to m’taoulin; and we hear of battles, short and decisive, being fought by Keewaqu’ and M’taoulin along its shores. “ Donald Soctomah today’s resident expert on the culture and language of the Passamaquoddies wrote us as follows: “Pulpit Rock is also known as M’taoulin Rock, which means Medicine Man. The one image faces the rising sun and the other ledge image looks like a fire with four faces on each side