The Pine-tree coast . the phice — to that blending of simplicity, wildness, and seclusi(m; that absenceof everything which recalls the city to ns, and is our ideal of a country ^et one can but look on at all this uprooting of old landmarks with a shrug ofsubmission. Pray Heaven they do not uproot all tiie old traditions as well I The tide is ebbing fast, imcovering the flats as it goes out. We do not finclthe pungent, salty exhalations it sends forth at all unpleasant, or the noondayheat, Avhich an hour ago was stifling lis, so oppressive. A light air, cool andrefreshing, brings -with it
The Pine-tree coast . the phice — to that blending of simplicity, wildness, and seclusi(m; that absenceof everything which recalls the city to ns, and is our ideal of a country ^et one can but look on at all this uprooting of old landmarks with a shrug ofsubmission. Pray Heaven they do not uproot all tiie old traditions as well I The tide is ebbing fast, imcovering the flats as it goes out. We do not finclthe pungent, salty exhalations it sends forth at all unpleasant, or the noondayheat, Avhich an hour ago was stifling lis, so oppressive. A light air, cool andrefreshing, brings -with it the fragrance it has just brushed from the sweet-scented, red-and-white clover-fields that border upon the sea. For many, Cutts Island holds a sentimental interest from its having beensometime the home of an English gentleman, of whom there is little else to sayexcept that he Avas of gentle blood. Kot far from the Thaxter residence thereis a rough-walled inclosure in which many generations of the Cuttses lie buried. CIIAStPERXOWNI, S CliAVi:. without stone or monument. Even the graves themselves are half hid under acovering of coarse, wiry grass and tripping vines. In one corner, beneath a heaj)of loose stones, like those of the wall beside it, tradition lays the bones of thatFrancis Champernowne * whose father obtained a grant of this island as far backas the year 1636. These Champernownes were of pure Norman descent, andwere related by marriage to the famous Ealeighs and Gilberts —bold navigatorsall. Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the founder of Maine, made every effort to inducemen of quality to cross the sea, and realize his h()])es. The sequel is well shown by this lonely grave with only cobblestonesTo tell us where are Champernownes poor bones. V>\\t hrvc we are at last at the outer shore of the island where the untamedbillows come straight in from Old Oceans heaving bosom. We could hear the KirrERY AND THE TISCATAQUA. 27 noise of their fall when we were l^ck among the wo
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