The Pine-tree coast . LAWYER. M01 N I DESER 1 ISLAND. 295 \itrr Bernard came the Revolution with its check to .-ill prosperity,confiscations, and its hatreds. Bernards property wenl with the resl ; bul afterthe war was over, his son John, who had remained in the country, a quidspectator of passing events, succeeded in getting restored to him the wesi halfof the island. The other half was also restored, no1 to Bernards heir, but toMadame Th^rese de Gregoire,the granddaughter and heiress of La Motte Cadil-lac,7 and to her husband, Barthel6my, who thereupon settled at Hulls Cove,where they afterw
The Pine-tree coast . LAWYER. M01 N I DESER 1 ISLAND. 295 \itrr Bernard came the Revolution with its check to .-ill prosperity,confiscations, and its hatreds. Bernards property wenl with the resl ; bul afterthe war was over, his son John, who had remained in the country, a quidspectator of passing events, succeeded in getting restored to him the wesi halfof the island. The other half was also restored, no1 to Bernards heir, but toMadame Th^rese de Gregoire,the granddaughter and heiress of La Motte Cadil-lac,7 and to her husband, Barthel6my, who thereupon settled at Hulls Cove,where they afterwards lived and died as American citizens. The claim of theseGregoires to .Mount Desert was allowed, not so much on its merits. — for inthat light it was a pure gift, — as an exhibition of that abounding gratitudetoward our French allies which made even the most obsolete claim a del,! SARGEN1 - MOUNTAIN, FROM THE SOUND. Having thus swept the historic horizon through the medium of musty rec-ords. Ave are all the more impatient to get acquainted with those picturesquefeatures through which the island has acquired its later prestige. It is as if the granite hills of New Hampshire had been transported to theshores of the Atlantic to form a more imposing display. And though there areso many ways of reaching the island, none, I am sure, shows off its rare combi-nation of shore and mountain to so much advantage as the approach from sea,— the way of the discoverers and explorers. But we shall sail without wind and ride without horses. As we come toward the island, out of the west, we first make out what seemsa solitary mountain, darkly blue, cool as an iceberg, lifted up above the what chance has this freak of nature heaved or lodged itself against thesedlores . Upon getting closer, the mass expands into a crown of barren summits, more 296 THE PINE-TREE COAST. o
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