Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson, 
Durham, N.H. ©1892, Printed by the Republican Press Association, 
Concord, N.H. 


LANDMARKS:	Great Bay

NAMES: JENNESS, J.S.

	Great Bay.  this beautiful basin of water, four miles wide in one 
part, enclosed between Durham and Newmarket on the north, and Greenland and 
Newington on the south, was so named as early as 1643.  It was otherwise 
called  the Bay or Lake of Pascataquack.  it is generally supposed to be 
formed by the union of the Winnicot, Squamscot, and Lamprey rivers, but it 
is by no means dependent on them for its supply of water.  It is a tidal 
basin that depends chiefly on the ebb and flow of the ocean.  "At high 
tide," says Mr. J.S. Jenness, "when this large basin is filled by the sea,
the prospect over its pellucid surface, framed all around with green 
meadows and waving grain and noble woods, is truly enchanting.  But when 
the tide is out, a vast bed of black ooze is exposed to view, bearing the
scanty waters of several small streams which empty into this great 
lagune."							

PG 87



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