Summer days down East . off at Cumber-land the train runs to the rural hamlet of Walnut Hill, whose redfarm-houses are nestled deep among the century-old trees, between twotall hills. Far away ahead blue ridges begin to appear,—the videttesof the wilderness. Around the station of Gray beautiful flower-bedsarc seen, their fragrance and color replacing the usual wretched sur-roundings of American railway buildings. Many other stations on thisline are adorned in a similar manner, and their parterres of flowersaflord pleasant refreshment to passing travellers. It is about two milesfrom Gray to Gra
Summer days down East . off at Cumber-land the train runs to the rural hamlet of Walnut Hill, whose redfarm-houses are nestled deep among the century-old trees, between twotall hills. Far away ahead blue ridges begin to appear,—the videttesof the wilderness. Around the station of Gray beautiful flower-bedsarc seen, their fragrance and color replacing the usual wretched sur-roundings of American railway buildings. Many other stations on thisline are adorned in a similar manner, and their parterres of flowersaflord pleasant refreshment to passing travellers. It is about two milesfrom Gray to Gray Corner, the chief village of the town, on the high-lands toward Sebago Lake. Here Simon Greenlcaf, the great jurist,practised law from 1S07 to 1811, and laid the foundations of his vastlegal learning. The railway ascends the valley of Royal River, and thepretty little stream is seen dimpling down among the trees. A newrailroad line has recently been surveyed from Gray station to Poland Spring and Mechanic Fals. (44). Aiibiirn and Lake-Auburn Spying. 45 Up the narrowing valley rushes the train, and the Grand Trunk Rail-way is seen across Royal River on the east. New Gloucester, the nextstation, is in the broad town of the same name, which was granted to,and settled by, people from Massachusetts Gloucester, about the year1735. The Indians compelled its abandonment a few years later; butin 1753 the inhabitants returned and erected a strong and spacious log-castle, which long served the purposes of homes, church, and later years New Gloucester became a shire-town, and this periodof forensic favor gave it a certain distinction and elegance which stillremain among its venerable mansions. Here Peleg W. Chandler wasborn; and here William Pitt Fessenden, the great Senator, passed thedays of his youth. Beyond New Gloucester the Maine Central and Grand Trunk linesslowly converge, and at Danville Junction they cross each other, oneroute bearing away north-westward to Canada
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