. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . e simple fisherfolk of old. A little steamer runs back and forth three or four times a day, dur-ing the pleasure season, betwxen the islands and Portsmouth, a dis-tance of twelve miles. The northernmost of the group is Duckisland, which is almost unapproachable, and tenanted by seafowl. Twomiles to the southward, Appledore lifts up its huge Ribs of rock . . round AvhichThe nightmared ocean murmurs and j-earns,Welters, and swashes, and tosses, and turns.
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . e simple fisherfolk of old. A little steamer runs back and forth three or four times a day, dur-ing the pleasure season, betwxen the islands and Portsmouth, a dis-tance of twelve miles. The northernmost of the group is Duckisland, which is almost unapproachable, and tenanted by seafowl. Twomiles to the southward, Appledore lifts up its huge Ribs of rock . . round AvhichThe nightmared ocean murmurs and j-earns,Welters, and swashes, and tosses, and turns. It is the largest of the islands, being a mile in length, and seventy-fivefeet above the sea at it highest point. A stones throw away is Haleysor Smuttynose, to which are joined at low tide Malaga and Cedarislands. A short distance to the w^estward of the latter is Star, itssummit still crowned with the little granite church around which wereonce gathered the houses of Gosport. Still farther westward areLondoners, with its solitary house and tiny sand beach, and finally,Whites island, where the lighthouse stands, and which has gained. COTTAGE AT JAFFREY POINT. 239 immortal fame as the home of a little girl who became one of oursweetest poets,— Mrs. Celia Tliaxter. It were vain to attempt to describe tlie varied charms which thesebarren rocks have for those who love the ocean; to tell of thecountless rifts and chasms into which the sea has rent the shore, orto point out the solitary rock on which, to one looking over the broadexpanse of the deep, there comes such a strange exhilaration andfullness of enjojment. But it is an experience for a lifetime tostand on such a spot during an easterly gale, and watch The mad Atlantic,When surge on surge would heap enorme,— Cliffs of emerald topped with snow, That lifted and lifted and then let goA great white avalanche of thunder. It is not until you are close to it that any landing is visible uponAppledore, and then the steamer turns
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