. America, picturesque and descriptive. )rize into Portland harbor. Bothconnnanders were killed in the fight, and their bodieswere brought ashore, each wrapped in the flag he hadso bravely served, and the same lienors were paidboth in the double funeral. Longfellow recalls thisas one of the memories of his youth : I remember the sea-fight far away, How it thondered oer the tide ! And the dead captains, as they hiy IFDouse ot ** TLbc iPearl ot Qvvs IFslan^,Casco 3Bav?, THE ANDltOSCOLlGlX. 245 In tlioir j^ravcs, oerlooking tlie tranquil bay,Wlit-re lliey in battle died. THE
. America, picturesque and descriptive. )rize into Portland harbor. Bothconnnanders were killed in the fight, and their bodieswere brought ashore, each wrapped in the flag he hadso bravely served, and the same lienors were paidboth in the double funeral. Longfellow recalls thisas one of the memories of his youth : I remember the sea-fight far away, How it thondered oer the tide ! And the dead captains, as they hiy IFDouse ot ** TLbc iPearl ot Qvvs IFslan^,Casco 3Bav?, THE ANDltOSCOLlGlX. 245 In tlioir j^ravcs, oerlooking tlie tranquil bay,Wlit-re lliey in battle died. THE lias more than fifteen luindrerl lakes, scat-tered everywhere throu;!! its extensive miles northwest of Portland is Sebajj:;oLake, one of the most attractive, an islet-dotted ex-panse, fourteen miles long and ton miles wide, its In-dian name meaning the stretch of water. Into itilows the rapid and devious Songo River, dischargingLong Lake, a little over two miles distant, but theboat journey on the river to that lake is for sixmiles and around twenty-seven bends. Thirty-eightmiles northwest of Portland is Poland S}>rings, thechief inland watering-place of Maine, with jmrc air,the finest waters and large hotels. To the northwardthe Androscoggin Ifivcr, flowing from the ffanks ofthe Wiiite Mountains, sweeps eastwardly across theState, and then turns southward to unite its currentwith the Kennebec in ^lerry fleeting Bay. Not farfrom the New Ha
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