The Pine-tree coast . ich mostly stand on leased ground; and as they pay a hand-some rental, the proprietor refuses to sell. In short. Bar Harbor presents atonce all the extremes, — all the varied phases of metropolitan, suburban, andseashore life, — the fierce struggle for wealth, the dead weight hanging to theheel of progress, the clashing of permanent with ephemeral ideas, the suddenfluctuation in values, from which many have deduced the coming downfall ofthe place. That is certainly one way of bringing about the undesirable result. I should say that tlie greatest drawback to the future pro
The Pine-tree coast . ich mostly stand on leased ground; and as they pay a hand-some rental, the proprietor refuses to sell. In short. Bar Harbor presents atonce all the extremes, — all the varied phases of metropolitan, suburban, andseashore life, — the fierce struggle for wealth, the dead weight hanging to theheel of progress, the clashing of permanent with ephemeral ideas, the suddenfluctuation in values, from which many have deduced the coming downfall ofthe place. That is certainly one way of bringing about the undesirable result. I should say that tlie greatest drawback to the future prosperity of BarHarbor lay in the ever-present menace of a disastrous conflagration. A city ofboards, built on a bare, treeless plain, can offer little resistance to the spread ofthe flames. One of the Desert Mountains, which Champlain first brought to the light ofhistory, rises back of the village; yet so far as I have been able to discover, thename of Champlain is nowhere commemorated on this island. This is Green. IN AND OUT OF BAR IIAUHOR. 317 Mountain, and the view held from its summit easily ranks lirst among Bar Har-bors many attractions. There is a house of entertainment there for the conven-ience of tourists making the ascent. It is said that the windows of this houseflash out their good morning as far as Belfast - and Montville, fifty and sixtymiles away. Visitors go to the mountain in vehicles as far as Eagle Lake, a beautifullittle piece of water two miles long, lying underneath it near the Somesvilleroad. They are then taken across in a steamboat, and finish the ascent bymeans of a railway sixty-three hundred feet in length. There is also a car-riage road to the summit. Pedestrians who are not afraid of a little healthyexertion find little diificulty in climbing up through the ravine opening a widegap between Green Mountain and Dry Mountain. By whichever route he may have arrived, the visitor will hardly be able tokeep back an exclamation of de-lighted surprise a
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