The Pine-tree coast . It took years, however, for our eastern coast to live clown a slander emanat-ing from such high authority, and consigning it so definitely to the limbo ofwaste places. But as the lamented Bryant has said, — Truth crushed to earth will rise again •. SO we have lived to see the blighting prophecy return to plague its inventors. All this time we have been seeing the nine miles of shore extendingbetween Camden and Rockland glide swiftly by us. And what a shore it is!Above us the Camden Mountains stand for a landmark at the western portal ofPenobscot Bay, very much as the Moun
The Pine-tree coast . It took years, however, for our eastern coast to live clown a slander emanat-ing from such high authority, and consigning it so definitely to the limbo ofwaste places. But as the lamented Bryant has said, — Truth crushed to earth will rise again •. SO we have lived to see the blighting prophecy return to plague its inventors. All this time we have been seeing the nine miles of shore extendingbetween Camden and Rockland glide swiftly by us. And what a shore it is!Above us the Camden Mountains stand for a landmark at the western portal ofPenobscot Bay, very much as the Mount Desert range does at the easternportal, and all between them of bays, harbors, islands, or sounds must, at nodistant day, become the summer home of thousands of those people whosensibly carry their home life along with them. We have now no class sounappreciative as not to demand something of the picturesque in their sur-roundings. And where shall these conditions be looked for if not in this alwayscharming bay ?.
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