The Pine-tree coast . hed. In all the world there is nothing so painful as the history of afamily predestined to misfortune. Let us draw the veil of silence over it andpass on. It is not much farther to the breezy hill-top where Fort McClary commandsthe rivers mouth. The war left it unfinished: peace finds it neglected and dis-mantled. An old block house crowns the height picturesquely. The view fromthe ramparts is as beautiful as it is extensive. I stood there at sunset, watchingthe fading splendors of the day die away into the softer radiance of a gloriousrising moon. Away out on the distant
The Pine-tree coast . hed. In all the world there is nothing so painful as the history of afamily predestined to misfortune. Let us draw the veil of silence over it andpass on. It is not much farther to the breezy hill-top where Fort McClary commandsthe rivers mouth. The war left it unfinished: peace finds it neglected and dis-mantled. An old block house crowns the height picturesquely. The view fromthe ramparts is as beautiful as it is extensive. I stood there at sunset, watchingthe fading splendors of the day die away into the softer radiance of a gloriousrising moon. Away out on the distant horizon a dusky cloud hung low overthe still sea. The west wind, a herald of tine weather, had driven it off to itslair, where it sullenly crouched as if biding its time. CJpon the darkeningwaves the great white moon was beginning to scatter her silvery scale-. Atthe opposite shore of the harbor, Fort Constitution showed a pale light, and theisland at the mouth of the river, another: and still farther out. across the. FORT MCCLARY, KITTERV POINT. • >•> THE PINK-TREE COAST. struggling, sparkling, dancing moonglade, the Isles of Shoals were just visiblein the gathering gloom. Suddenly a light shot out of the darkness ; then it assuddenly vanished, and all seemed blacker than before. That was White IslandLight going its rounds. It is no stupid fixed light, like those I saw winkingand blinking at the moons beams below me, but darts its clear ray into everynook and corner of the wilderness of waters, up and down the long reaches of
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