. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . 71 CHAPTER f HE ilSC/ITAQUIS IaLLEY. There wild woods grow, and rivers row,And monie a hills between—Burns. 7ARLY next morning, as we went on board theferry steamer, — certainly the handsomest boat,I, for one, ever saw in public service,— whichwould carry us eight miles across to the main-land (for we were now northward bound).Frenchmans bay lay softly blue and scarcelymarred by a ripple. The Porcupine crags, ris-ing sharply out of the shining pl
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . 71 CHAPTER f HE ilSC/ITAQUIS IaLLEY. There wild woods grow, and rivers row,And monie a hills between—Burns. 7ARLY next morning, as we went on board theferry steamer, — certainly the handsomest boat,I, for one, ever saw in public service,— whichwould carry us eight miles across to the main-land (for we were now northward bound).Frenchmans bay lay softly blue and scarcelymarred by a ripple. The Porcupine crags, ris-ing sharply out of the shining plain of water,were dark almost to blackness, but the lazy islands along theGouldsboro shore gleamed bright in sunshine, where The warm, wide hills, are muffled thick with green. A thousand bare spaces, wet with dew, glistened like burnished mir-rors upon the mountains we were so regretfully leaving, and lit uptheir shaggy sides in barbaric decoration. All too quickly, therefore,the engineers slow bell jarred upon our ears, and with a last fondglance at Newport, and craggy Pemetic, and that observatory-crownedgiant which especially is Mount Desert, w
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