The Pine-tree coast . OLD HALF-MOON BATTKUY. Knowing how averse New England was to the war, the British Cabinet deter-mined to make her still more so by striking at her commerce and open , sink, and destroy! were the watchwords of this war. What a com-mentary upon our boasted civilization ! ? The land here is high, and the shore bold. Nothing is smoothed otf. Thepastures bristle Avith the wild native growth. Now and then some deep, broadsplit yawns before us, into which the sea flies foaming to our feet, or shootsup a column of spray high in the air. Here now is one to which the sono
The Pine-tree coast . OLD HALF-MOON BATTKUY. Knowing how averse New England was to the war, the British Cabinet deter-mined to make her still more so by striking at her commerce and open , sink, and destroy! were the watchwords of this war. What a com-mentary upon our boasted civilization ! ? The land here is high, and the shore bold. Nothing is smoothed otf. Thepastures bristle Avith the wild native growth. Now and then some deep, broadsplit yawns before us, into which the sea flies foaming to our feet, or shootsup a column of spray high in the air. Here now is one to which the sonorousname of the Devils Cartway has been given. And the Devils Arm-chair^ is its close neighbor. Theres something in a name even at theshore. Only a few years ago I saw the hull of a vessel, with every stick goneout of her, wedged bolt upright in the Cartway. The next gale broke her its name, the place proved the salvation of the crew; for if the vessel AT KENNEBUNKTORT. 99. had struck half her length either to right or left, there would luiv(; been adifferent tale to tell. The seashore is undoubtedly made more interesting to us all, both old andyoung, by the wonderful forms of animal life it exhibits, so different from any-thing belonging to the dry land; but oidy at low tide can we indulge the fancyto grope about the strange territory which the retreating waves have left bare,and the crows so regularly frequent. We have already frightened away two orthree of them while picking our way out over the slippery bladder-weed, whichfastens itself so strongly to every stone and every crevice, to the farthestledges where a new growth of the edible sea-moss begins, though from its coal-black color we should never have imaginedit to be the same thing we have bought ofour grocer at home. Yet when exposed tosun and dew^ it turns first a lovely Tyrianpurple, then as white as sea-foam plants give out a moist, pungent, andpenetrating, though not unpleasant
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