. The Maine central. A journal of travel . athing. Isleboro has the only warm sea bathing in Maine. A good livery stable isconnected with the Inn. The island is about thirteen miles long, and there are nearlythirty miles of drives over good country roads, with no steep or dangerous hills. Thesedrives are very beautiful, owing to the narrowness of the island and the consequentproximity to the shore, with its many indentations of the fine mountain and island views. Through the township are tracts of fine woodland, and particularly in the neighborhoodof the Inn are groves of large growth beeches,
. The Maine central. A journal of travel . athing. Isleboro has the only warm sea bathing in Maine. A good livery stable isconnected with the Inn. The island is about thirteen miles long, and there are nearlythirty miles of drives over good country roads, with no steep or dangerous hills. Thesedrives are very beautiful, owing to the narrowness of the island and the consequentproximity to the shore, with its many indentations of the fine mountain and island views. Through the township are tracts of fine woodland, and particularly in the neighborhoodof the Inn are groves of large growth beeches, maples, birches and ash trees, as well as oflarge native spruce. The shores near the Inn are generally rocky, but the rock line is broken at severalpoints by short and finely curving beaches. Rockland, with its daily train service to and from Portland and Boston, is but onehours journey distant, across the smooth waters of the bay. There is also direct steamboatcommunication with Mt. Desert, four hour s distant, and other eastern Fourteen miles Harbor, in tlie open ocean, lies Monhegan, an island thatholds a community [most unique; a community which is never disturbed by the steamwhistle, save when the fog signal gets in its work ; owns not one solitary horse, and noroads to use the equine upon if they had ; whose only land vehicle is the wheel-barrow,but whose ever) inhabitant owns a fishing boat and can handle her through a living gale ina manner to win admiration ; where there are no poor, no house of correction, no base ballnews ; subscribers to the leading papers and magazines, and with plenty of time for reading,they are remarkably well informed and cultured. The entrance to the only harbor on this sea-blown isle is from the open ocean, passingbetween the points of Smutty Nose and the stony island of Manana, which lies directly offthe larger Monhegan like leviathan and its offspring. The dories in the water, the lobster pots scattered about, and the
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