The Pine-tree coast . n. It took years, however, for our eastern coast to live down a slander emanat-ing from such high authority, and consigning it so definitely to the limbo ofwaste places. But as the lamented Bryant has said, — Truth crushed to earth will rise again : so we have lived to see the blighting prophecy return to plague its inventors. All this time we have been seeing the nine miles of shore extendingbetween Camden and Rockland glide swiftly by us. And what a shore it is !Above us the Camden Mountains stand for a landmark at the western portal ofPenobscot Bay, very much as the Mo
The Pine-tree coast . n. It took years, however, for our eastern coast to live down a slander emanat-ing from such high authority, and consigning it so definitely to the limbo ofwaste places. But as the lamented Bryant has said, — Truth crushed to earth will rise again : so we have lived to see the blighting prophecy return to plague its inventors. All this time we have been seeing the nine miles of shore extendingbetween Camden and Rockland glide swiftly by us. And what a shore it is !Above us the Camden Mountains stand for a landmark at the western portal ofPenobscot Bay, very much as the Mount Desert range does at the easternportal, and all between them of bays, harbors, islands, or sounds must, at nodistant day, become the summer home of thousands of those people whosensibly carry their home life along with them. We have now no class sounappreciative as not to demand something of the picturesque in their sur-roundings. And where shall these conditions be looked for if not in this alwayscharming bay ?. PENOBSCOT BAY AND lis COASTS. 263 Not only is Penobscot Baj in a certain Bense the distinguishing geographicalfeature of the whole .Maine coast, but we have Been thai it ia equally notablefor the wealth of its historical associations, which go far back into the dimtwilight of discovery and exploration, and have come down to us spicedwith all the romance of a wonder-loving age. Taken as a whole, the scenic features of this bay are graceful rather thanbold, suggestive of calm rather than riotous commotion. 5Tou will no1the full play of ocean as yon would alone,- the more exposed coasts, or findhere those long levels of gleaming sand that echo to the mighty tread of thefree Atlantic; but yon will always have green islands, noble mountains,and inviting harbors on every hand — the sea shorn of its terrors, the landdivested of its harsh and hideous features.
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