. Here and there in New England and Canada . nt the sea, which roars at their feet continually. Theisland is rich in groves of fir and spruce, whose perennial perfumemingles with the crisp sea-air to make a bracing draught for the league or more of roads traverses the domain, leading from the pier 124 out to White Head, that great precipice wliich frowns clown on thewaves a hundred and fifty feet below. The Ottawa House, for manyyears favored by Canadian families as a summer-resort, was burnedto the ground in 1886; and in 1888 the present hotel of the same namerose on its site. A safe
. Here and there in New England and Canada . nt the sea, which roars at their feet continually. Theisland is rich in groves of fir and spruce, whose perennial perfumemingles with the crisp sea-air to make a bracing draught for the league or more of roads traverses the domain, leading from the pier 124 out to White Head, that great precipice wliich frowns clown on thewaves a hundred and fifty feet below. The Ottawa House, for manyyears favored by Canadian families as a summer-resort, was burnedto the ground in 1886; and in 1888 the present hotel of the same namerose on its site. A safe bathing-beach borders on the main ship-channel, close at hand. Elsewhere around the beautiful island areattractive summer-cottages, the beginnings of the future patriciancolony that is to find its place here. The park-roads and shores andvilla-sites and public buildings were laid out and arranged by FrederickLaw Olmsted, the most famous of American landscape-gardeners, sothat the best features of the island are adequately developed and made. W4^^, IT the most of. Looking up the harbor we see the forts,— Scammcl andPreble and Gorges,—the Portland Breakwater, the populous and spire-crowned hills of the city, and the far-away range of the White ^Vloun-tains, nobly outlined against the remote horizon. Nearer at hand, thecoasting-vessels, steamers, and yachts fill the outer harbor with grace-ful life and animation; while off to the north-east the multitudinousisles of Casco Bay are grouped in kaleidoscopic variation. On theother side is the great dominating ocean, broken only by the rocks ofRam Island, and extending away to the dim horizons verge, beyondthe wild flowers and berry-bushes, the evergreen groves, and spray-laden air. The island became the home of James Andrews in 1G67,and contained a primitive fortress, to which the people of Portland fled 125 when the French and Indian savages ravaged their liomes. About thej-ear 1850, it passed into the possession of Lemuel Cuslii
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