The Pine-tree coast . s romanticAnemone Cave, situateda little south of theSpouting Horn, is oneof the favorite resortsof the island. Near by is the Lynam homestead, long a favorite haunt of those artistswhose pictures first made Mount Desert famous. This certifies that we areamong the most picturesque scenes of the island. Now and then the road toBar Harbor conies in sight, to disappear again in the thick woods of NewportMountain, like a girdle that has cut into the superabundant flesh. Here islittle Thrumeap, to which we must give a good berth in passing. But cottagesby the shore, and sailin
The Pine-tree coast . s romanticAnemone Cave, situateda little south of theSpouting Horn, is oneof the favorite resortsof the island. Near by is the Lynam homestead, long a favorite haunt of those artistswhose pictures first made Mount Desert famous. This certifies that we areamong the most picturesque scenes of the island. Now and then the road toBar Harbor conies in sight, to disappear again in the thick woods of NewportMountain, like a girdle that has cut into the superabundant flesh. Here islittle Thrumeap, to which we must give a good berth in passing. But cottagesby the shore, and sailing craft on the sea, announce that we are nearing ourport. Newport Mountain now rears its grisly cliffs high above our heads. Athird cluster of islands, wilder and more forbidding thasi any we have yetseen, —all bald rocks below, with a headgear of bristling pines above,—stretches a broken line across our course. Through the intervals we look offnorth into the sparkling expanse of Frenchmans Bay. More islands, more. SCHOONER HEAD. 302 iilE riNE-TUEE COAST. moiintains, more mysterious blending of land and water in the distance, meetus whichever way we look. At our right the mainland rises again in a clusterof misty summits,—the landmark of this bay, the sharply dented SchoodicHills. Out before us is a roadstead thick with pleasure craft of every sort andsize. And here at last is our summer city of i)leasure itself. But we have seenenough for one day; we want to sit down Avhere we can think it all over inquiet. 1 De Monts efforts to i)lant a cnloiiy uiuler his patent are treated of in the chapter onEastport. 2 The patent granted to De Monts had been revoked at tlie instance of the merchants, whosaw their trade cut off by it. They denounced the patent as a monopoly hurtful to the inter-ests of the kingdom, but especially ruinous to the maritime ports, precisely as the Englishmerchants subsequently did the privileges granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges. Clashing inter-ests worked
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