The Pine-tree coast . h. Green, Dry. and Newportform the background at Bar Harbor. Green, 1527 feet, is the highest of all; Dry. 1268 feet,is separated only from (ireen l>y a deep cleft ; Newport, 1260 feet, is perhaps the most markedin its outlines. These three peaks establish the topography of the east shore. Browns, B60 . and, Sargents, 1344 feet, wall up the sound at the east; and Robinsons, 750 feet, Dog,670 feet, and Flying Mountain, 300 feet, at the west. Western Mountains east peak is 1073feet : west peak. 071 feet. McFarlands. 751 feet, is the northernmost summit, lying a littlenor
The Pine-tree coast . h. Green, Dry. and Newportform the background at Bar Harbor. Green, 1527 feet, is the highest of all; Dry. 1268 feet,is separated only from (ireen l>y a deep cleft ; Newport, 1260 feet, is perhaps the most markedin its outlines. These three peaks establish the topography of the east shore. Browns, B60 . and, Sargents, 1344 feet, wall up the sound at the east; and Robinsons, 750 feet, Dog,670 feet, and Flying Mountain, 300 feet, at the west. Western Mountains east peak is 1073feet : west peak. 071 feet. McFarlands. 751 feet, is the northernmost summit, lying a littlenorth of west from Bar Harbor. Though not mountainous, the northern section of the islandis hilly. II Otter Cliff is five miles from Bar Harbor by the road through the Gorge. It makesthe precipitous sea-face of otter Creek Point, and is greatly admired for its bold castellatedoutlines. This headland makes with Great Head, next cast, a COV6 partly formed of NewportBeach, and having the Beehive and leak of Utter behind »f*>V«. ,; pvf y .£. ?-,? -r & w«* JSrte^ ? ?y^ 8 sss^ .-•>%:&; ffl *:rSi«Sa£ i&H TURTLE LAKE, MOUNT DESERT. CHAPTER XXII. IN AND OUT OF BAR HARBOR. Tore God, you have here a goodly dwelling, and a rich. —King Henry IV. ACCURATELY speaking, Bar Harbor is no harbor at all, but a roadsteadonly half sheltered by the Porcupine Islands,1—five weird lumps of granite,protruding above water, a little way off the land, the largest of which has asubmarine attachment with Mount Desert, formed of a strip of shingle that isbared at low water, all awash at high tide, and covered again at the bar and island make clear the genesis of the name of Bar Harbor. The other islands of this group stretch off irregularly round the roadstead, akind of broken-down barricade, with deep water between to show where thesea has breached it. There is a farmhouse on Bar Island, and some land under cultivation there,— a strip of greensward and a shag of woods, — bu
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