. The Maine central. A journal of travel . -, rise directly fromthe sea, and the Bay Point Hotel, on the Rockland breakwater, shows out in pleasingprominence, an illustration of the great caravansaries which have been erected for theaccommodation of the summer throng which frequent Maines happy retreats. Camden Village is eight miles away, alongshore. Its crowning beauty is its mountains,a lofty blue range, which for centuries have been a landmark for sailors entering PenobscotBay. Of the five peaks, those of Megunticook (1457 feet) and Battie (1325 feet) are thehighest. Among the glens and ar
. The Maine central. A journal of travel . -, rise directly fromthe sea, and the Bay Point Hotel, on the Rockland breakwater, shows out in pleasingprominence, an illustration of the great caravansaries which have been erected for theaccommodation of the summer throng which frequent Maines happy retreats. Camden Village is eight miles away, alongshore. Its crowning beauty is its mountains,a lofty blue range, which for centuries have been a landmark for sailors entering PenobscotBay. Of the five peaks, those of Megunticook (1457 feet) and Battie (1325 feet) are thehighest. Among the glens and around the bases of the mountains are several beautifuldrives, leading by sequestered lakes and sweeping over high and lonely foothills, amid. SCHOONER HEAD, MT. DESERT. luxurious, over-arching forests. These lone mountain peaks are peculiar to Maine, havingits grandest example in Katahdin, near the head waters of the Penobscot, and includingMt. Kineo, the monarch of Moosehead, the Mt. Desert and Camden groups and thethree peaks of Agamenticus—a notable seaward landmark nearly on the border of Maineand New Hampshire. The steamboat landing at Islesboro is within the romantically situated village entitledDark Harbor, a few hundred feet north from the famous Islesboro Inn. The harborforms a perfectly sheltered haven for boating. The island is thirteen miles in length andextremel) narrow. It holds nearly thirty miles of drives over good country roads, renderedparticularly attractive by the continuous and close proximity of the shores, with tbeirwaving undulations, fine mountain and island views. All about are tracts of noble wood-land—beeches, maples, birches and ash, as well as the noted balsamic spruce. From Islesboro the
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