The Pine-tree coast . if the ocean hadexhausted itself with this ef-fort. Then the coast openswide its streaming jaws againto the coming wave. Passing still on by OtterCove and its high eastern cliff,11which are finely presented, weare soon up with Great Head,that colossal torso of gray-whitegranite, bulging far out, andheaved high up above the sur-rounding wrack, of which itseems, indeed, the sole survi-vor. It is fearfully dented andbeaten in by storm and see the deep holes that thesea has worked out at its base;we cast our eyes up to get anidea of its altitude, and wemake a mental
The Pine-tree coast . if the ocean hadexhausted itself with this ef-fort. Then the coast openswide its streaming jaws againto the coming wave. Passing still on by OtterCove and its high eastern cliff,11which are finely presented, weare soon up with Great Head,that colossal torso of gray-whitegranite, bulging far out, andheaved high up above the sur-rounding wrack, of which itseems, indeed, the sole survi-vor. It is fearfully dented andbeaten in by storm and see the deep holes that thesea has worked out at its base;we cast our eyes up to get anidea of its altitude, and wemake a mental calculation as tohow long it will be before thiscliff, undermined in its turn,will come crashing down likethose of which the ruins arethe only remaining Ave do not know where tobegin. The cliff counts theages as we count the years. We now get sight of a stilllonger headland advancing outfrom the shore before us. It isSchooner Head, a promontorythrown off by Newport Moun-tain, which gets its name legiti-. OTTER CLIFF, MOUNT DESERT. MOUNT DESERT ISLAM). 301 mately enough, notwithstanding the efforts made to cry it down, from the rudeoutlines of a vessel accidentally formed on ita vertical wall. More than once1 have heard it roundly declared a humbug) :| phantom ship, r a these are libels. This picture on the wall musl be seen in the righl light,instead of being condemned like the mediocre pictures of our exhibitions,because it happens to be badly hung. If, for instance, the noonday sun isshining full upon the cliff, it will be vain to look for the resemblance; l>utwhen the face of the cliff is in shadow, let us say in the afternoon, the picturedschooner, riding undermainsail and jib, standsout as clear and dis-tinct as one could wishto see it. The Spouting Horn,a deep rift in the up through thiscliff from base to sum-mit, is seen to the bestadvantage only whenthere is a heavy sea toset it in full play, whena jet of fine spray isthrown h
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