. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . me peaks of the White Mountains. From Portland, the Grand Trunk Railway runs to Gorham, N. H.,one of the portals of the White ^Mountains; and to several interest-ing manufacturing and summering-places in Maine, such as Lewiston,South Paris, Bryants Pond and Bethel. At the distance of onlytwenty-five miles, and reached by either the Grand Trunk or the MaineCentral Railways, is Poland Springs. This is the source of the cele-brated Poland mineral and medic
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . me peaks of the White Mountains. From Portland, the Grand Trunk Railway runs to Gorham, N. H.,one of the portals of the White ^Mountains; and to several interest-ing manufacturing and summering-places in Maine, such as Lewiston,South Paris, Bryants Pond and Bethel. At the distance of onlytwenty-five miles, and reached by either the Grand Trunk or the MaineCentral Railways, is Poland Springs. This is the source of the cele-brated Poland mineral and medicinal water, and the springs have be-come a fashionable resort, not only of invalids, but of pleasure-seekers. A great hotel, with cottages, baths and all the modernappurtenances of such a place, has been built, and during the warmmonths a gay crowd makes it the centre of every species of mid-summer recreation. u CHAPTER VI. J LONG THE fAmn^ (EOAST. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deepMoans round with many voices. Come, my friends,Tis not too late to seek a newer world.— •HAT route shall we take to Mount Desert? wasBailys question, in a general way, at breakfaston Tuesday morning. There are two or three ways overland, Iexplained, or we can go Ijy steamer. Whichshall it be ? Bj the steamboat, of course, said our im-perious lady-member with an air of astonish-ment over any possible indecision, for ourtickets read that departed forthwith to the office of the Portland, Mt. Desertand Machias Steamboat Company, and bought stateroom ticketsfor that evenings boat. It was to be the City of Richmond. SheAvould sail at 11 , when the train leaving Boston at 7 oclockarrived, and would reach Mt. Desert about noon on the next clay,by a devious route through the beautiful islands of Penobscot bay. The overland routes I had indicated were two : chiefly the MaineCentral railroad, by the way of Bangor and Mt. Desert f
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