. Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine . BATHING HOUSE AND BEACH, CUSHINGS ISLAND. Whittier says in one of his poems that nowhere is therefairer or sweeter sunshine — Than where hillside oaks and beechesOverlook the long blue reaches,Silver coves, and pebbled beaches,And green isles, of Casco Bay. Another writer says, — One is not inclined to doubt the truth of this assertion, when on somebright summers day, he sails amid the islands of the bay, — those islands which THROUGH THE WILDS. 43 were the Hesperides of Longfellows boyish dreams,
. Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine . BATHING HOUSE AND BEACH, CUSHINGS ISLAND. Whittier says in one of his poems that nowhere is therefairer or sweeter sunshine — Than where hillside oaks and beechesOverlook the long blue reaches,Silver coves, and pebbled beaches,And green isles, of Casco Bay. Another writer says, — One is not inclined to doubt the truth of this assertion, when on somebright summers day, he sails amid the islands of the bay, — those islands which THROUGH THE WILDS. 43 were the Hesperides of Longfellows boyish dreams, — and explores the greendepths of the myriad coves which open before him at every turn in the mtricatepassages which his boat is threading. It is not difficult during the summer tovisit nearly every part of the bay by means of the excursion steamers plyingupon its waters. The most attractive of the islands, in some respects, is Cush-ings, \vhich lies just at the mouth of the harbor, between the two main VIEW ON CUSHINGS ISLAND. The land rises abruptly from the ocean side to a ridge crowned with trees, butdescends more gradually to the beaches on the northern shore. There are manypleasant walks on the island; but the finest is that which leads through thepines to Whitehead, — the cliff which forms its eastern extremity. Here the rockfalls precipitously one hundred and fifty feet to the water, which foams andsurges amid the huge fragments of the cliff scattered _ along its base. To theeast of Cushings lies Peaks Island. Upon it there is a considerable village,the number of whose inhabitants is swelled many fold in the summer by visitors 44 THROUGH THE WILDS. from the mainland. The island, in its main features, does not differ much fromCushings, except that its shores are not so bold. Among the other of the onehundred and twenty-two islands with which the bay isstudded, Long, Little Chebeague, and Diamond Islands,are worth visiting. The cove which makes into
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