. Here and there in New England and Canada . nd a heretic. During the long Indian wars, the town sufferedincredible things, and all its men were under arms. Tlie long-drawnstreet of Wells village lies on the upland plain, between the railroadand the marshes that border the sea, and its white colonial housescommand views far out to the level blue horizon. A mile and a halffrom the village, by the road, is Wells Beach, a long sandj strand, withone or two hotels, and a sea-view extending from Boon Island aroundto Cape Porpoise. Many years ago, this was one of the most pojjularresorts on the coast
. Here and there in New England and Canada . nd a heretic. During the long Indian wars, the town sufferedincredible things, and all its men were under arms. Tlie long-drawnstreet of Wells village lies on the upland plain, between the railroadand the marshes that border the sea, and its white colonial housescommand views far out to the level blue horizon. A mile and a halffrom the village, by the road, is Wells Beach, a long sandj strand, withone or two hotels, and a sea-view extending from Boon Island aroundto Cape Porpoise. Many years ago, this was one of the most pojjularresorts on the coast, but its large hotels,— the Island-Ledge and theAtlantic, — burned down, and the beach has never recovered its lostprestige. The town of Wells has eleven miles of ocean-coast, thegreater part of Avhich is in beaches of fine liard sand. Eive miles south of Wells the quaint hamlet of Ogunquit nestleson the shore of the little haven where the Ogunquit Eiver enters thesea, ])et\veeu Israels Head and Almet Hill. Tlie people here live by the. deep-sea and shore fisheries, sending their product in carts tliroughouta circuit of thirty miles inland. There are two or three small hotels(Maxwell, Ogunquit, etc.), Aisited in summer b}^ peo^jle who enjoy thelonely contiguous beaches. It is but a few miles hence to the greatclusters of liotels on York Beach, passing by tlie vraj of Bald-HeadCliff and Cape Xeddicls:, and not far from tlie noble hill of Agamenticus. As tlie train traverses the plateau of Wells, the great sea is Aisiblefor miles, flashing like a broad silver shield at morning, or towardevening a plain of deep sapphire, under the purpling eastern antique square houses of Wells extend along the edge of theplateau, and farther out are projecting capes and beaches, breakinginto the ocean-tides. Beyond Wells is the handsome station at TlieElms (perhaps the future terminus of the York-Beach Railroad). A short run through the woods leads to tlie station of Kenuebunk,su
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