. New England; a human interest geographical reader. lled it *The Isle of DesertMountains. The French started a settlement at Mount Desertseven years before the Pilgrims landed at built a little fort and a number of houses, andlaid out their gardens, and their priests set to work toconvert the Indians. But presently an arm_ed Englishship from Virginia appeared one summer day andsaluted them with a broadside of guns. The settle-ment was destroyed, and the Frenchmen were seizedas intruders in the territory of the king of England. The first white man to establish a permanent homeon
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. lled it *The Isle of DesertMountains. The French started a settlement at Mount Desertseven years before the Pilgrims landed at built a little fort and a number of houses, andlaid out their gardens, and their priests set to work toconvert the Indians. But presently an arm_ed Englishship from Virginia appeared one summer day andsaluted them with a broadside of guns. The settle-ment was destroyed, and the Frenchmen were seizedas intruders in the territory of the king of England. The first white man to establish a permanent homeon the island was Abraham Somes of Gloucester. Hecame to Mount Desert in his fishing boat in 1761, and The Coast with a Hundred Harbors 353 cut a load of barrel staves which he carried back. Thenext year he voyaged to the island with his wife andfour children, and built a log-house up at the head ofthe sound which bears his name. Another Gloucesterfamily came the same year and settled close by. Thepopulation gradually increased, but for a full century. Bar Harbur the dwellers got practically all their livelihood fromfarming and fishing. About i860 the island began to win the favor ofwandering artists and parties of college students on avacation. Bar Harbor was then a primitive villageof farmers and fishermen. The land was thin andpoor, and the point on which the town afterward grewwas bushclad and desolate. Yet in twenty years BarHarbor became one of the most popular resorts on theNew England coast.
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