Summer days down East . THE SEA-BOARD OF BATH, AND THE MOUTH OF THE KEN-NEBEC. jROM the dim green heart of the forest, on the edge of theahnost unexplored Eastern Townships of Canada, turn we tothe rocky shores of the ocean, .where the restless waves for-ever beat against the iron-bound and unyielding shore. Itis a straight-away track from Phillips down to Bath, and thetrain traverses the distance in five hours, down the Sandy-Riverand Androscoggin valleys. Bath is a quaint old inaritime city, stretching sleepily along theKennebec, which is here both broad and deep, and presenting from
Summer days down East . THE SEA-BOARD OF BATH, AND THE MOUTH OF THE KEN-NEBEC. jROM the dim green heart of the forest, on the edge of theahnost unexplored Eastern Townships of Canada, turn we tothe rocky shores of the ocean, .where the restless waves for-ever beat against the iron-bound and unyielding shore. Itis a straight-away track from Phillips down to Bath, and thetrain traverses the distance in five hours, down the Sandy-Riverand Androscoggin valleys. Bath is a quaint old inaritime city, stretching sleepily along theKennebec, which is here both broad and deep, and presenting from theriver the appearance of a place of considerable magnitude. It has about8,000 inhabitants, a dozen churches (of which those of the Free Baptistsare most numerous), capital schools, half-a-dozen banks, two newspapers,a public library, and a stately monument to commemorate the onehundred and seventeen soldiers out of its contingent of seven hundredand sixty-five (one-tenth of the population), who died on the Southernbattle-fields. The earliest
Size: 1127px × 2216px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidsummerdaysdo, bookyear1883
