The Pine-tree coast . ^ those owning the name of Jordan ever since the country was first set-tled, and through the thick and thin of old and new wars, or the thousand andone temptations to seek homes elsewhere, the Jordans have stuck to their origi-nal acres with the pertinacity of a Highland clan, and have continued to flourish. Richmonds island. until, as I was credibly informed, out of fifty or sixty scholars in the districtschool, there were not half a dozen of any other name. All Cape Elizabeth is full of sudden dips, or up-starting knobs of half-bareledges, interspersed here and there wi
The Pine-tree coast . ^ those owning the name of Jordan ever since the country was first set-tled, and through the thick and thin of old and new wars, or the thousand andone temptations to seek homes elsewhere, the Jordans have stuck to their origi-nal acres with the pertinacity of a Highland clan, and have continued to flourish. Richmonds island. until, as I was credibly informed, out of fifty or sixty scholars in the districtschool, there were not half a dozen of any other name. All Cape Elizabeth is full of sudden dips, or up-starting knobs of half-bareledges, interspersed here and there with a plantation of oaks or a forest ofspruces. > From Spurwink two more miles will take us to the shore close upon Rich-monds Island. This island, with an outward sweep of the mainland, formsquite a deep indent, at the bottom of which there is another pretty beach, witha hotel and cottages at the back, and a gleaming line of breakers at the land here slopes off finely to the water. I was quite charmed with thelocality, in spite of its absurd name of Bowery Beach. We are now again uponground having considerable historic and picturesque distinction. Had New England definitely passed to French control, in all likelihoodRichmonds Island Avould have retained the more poetic name of Isle of Bac-chus, which Champlai
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