The Pine-tree coast . MAINE WIIITK ISLAND. CHAPTER II. THE ISLES OF SHOALS. • I marked the plunge of the muffled deep On its sandy reaches breakhig. — Ingelow. PERHAPS no part of the Maine coast has had such distinguished andappreciative annalists as the half-dozen fragments of wave-worn rock,thrust up from the bottom of the sea at her southeast border, like the cast-offremnants of a continent. A delightful half-day might be spent simply in turn-ing over the literature to which the Isles of Shoals have given rise. By whathappy accident, we ask, are the men and women who have written abo
The Pine-tree coast . MAINE WIIITK ISLAND. CHAPTER II. THE ISLES OF SHOALS. • I marked the plunge of the muffled deep On its sandy reaches breakhig. — Ingelow. PERHAPS no part of the Maine coast has had such distinguished andappreciative annalists as the half-dozen fragments of wave-worn rock,thrust up from the bottom of the sea at her southeast border, like the cast-offremnants of a continent. A delightful half-day might be spent simply in turn-ing over the literature to which the Isles of Shoals have given rise. By whathappy accident, we ask, are the men and women who have written about theseislands both gifted and distinguished; or is there really something inspiring orout of the common in this much-talked-of little archipelago ? In his American Note-Books Mr. Hawthorne seems to have taken out hisnote-book the moment he found himself alone. For instance, he says : It isquite impossible to give an idea of these rocky shores, — how confusedly theyare bound together, lying in all directions : what solid le
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