A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . Great Head. 324 COLONIZATION UNDER NORTHERN COMPANY. [Chap. XII. Island, effected a landing not far from the bar which gives its name toa little harbor. There the broad flank of Green Mount, with New-port just alongside to make a deep and still ravine, greeted the eyeswhich sea-spray and the fog had filled. Eagle Lake lay buried in theforest in
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . Great Head. 324 COLONIZATION UNDER NORTHERN COMPANY. [Chap. XII. Island, effected a landing not far from the bar which gives its name toa little harbor. There the broad flank of Green Mount, with New-port just alongside to make a deep and still ravine, greeted the eyeswhich sea-spray and the fog had filled. Eagle Lake lay buried in theforest in front of them, and the wooded slopes stretched along to theright as far as they could see. The islands with bronzed cliffs to sea-ward, and bases honeycombed by the tide, wore sharp crests of fir andpine. The American coast does not supply another combination sostriking as this, of mountains with their feet in deep ocean on everyside, lifting two thousand feet of greenery to vie with the green ofwaves ; of inland recesses where brooks run past brown rocks, andbirds sing woodland songs as if their nests swung in a country remote. Bar Harbor. from sea-breezes. Delicate ferns fill the moist places of the wood,and the sea-anemone opens in the little caverns where the tide leavesa pool for them. Nature has scattered the needled cones, of shape soperfect, from those of an inch high to the finished tree, artfully dis-tributed in the open spaces. The Frenchmen hailed this picturesqueconclusion to their voyage, and named the place and harbor St. Sau-veur. Several Indian villages were on the island. A smoke rose as a sig-nal that the men were observed; they signalled with another smoke,and the natives came to see them. Father Biard had met some ofthem on the Penobscot, and now inquired the way to answered that their place was better, and so wholesome thatsick natives in the neighboring parts were brought thither to becured. But when Father Biard could not be persuaded, the
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