. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . , the edge of the water seems best, so that theisland is almost engirdled with a row of cottages, great and COTTAGE AT BAR HARBOR. But tlie word cottage here is as expansive as at Newport ( is, in fact, a combination of Newport and Saratoga, remodeledafter its own original fashion), and scores of the houses in the out-skirts of Bar Harljor, are not only ideals of architecture but very sub-stantial and more costly than the average of cit
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . , the edge of the water seems best, so that theisland is almost engirdled with a row of cottages, great and COTTAGE AT BAR HARBOR. But tlie word cottage here is as expansive as at Newport ( is, in fact, a combination of Newport and Saratoga, remodeledafter its own original fashion), and scores of the houses in the out-skirts of Bar Harljor, are not only ideals of architecture but very sub-stantial and more costly than the average of city homes, even inwealthy quarters. Nowhere in the Union, I feel sure, can the equal,or similitude of the Bar Harbor heights be found, in combined archi-tectural and natural picturesqueness. Nor is this an ephemeral thing,for every year adds many names to the catalogue of rich and cultivatedmen who are buyiug land and building houses here which they mean tooccupy permanently. These facts and many others as to the remarkable growth herewere given to us by a gentleman who was one of the earliest to appre-ciate the excellence of the spot, and one who has not only profitedmost largely by his early investments, but has wisely guided thehurried improvements
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