. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. ing extract from the pen of Edward , in his admirably written work entitled Portland and Vicinity,will be found truthful and , and conveys as well as words can,some conception of this beautiful resort by the .sea:— Here is a little bay, extending from Cape Elizabeth to Cape SmallPoint, a dis
. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. ing extract from the pen of Edward , in his admirably written work entitled Portland and Vicinity,will be found truthful and , and conveys as well as words can,some conception of this beautiful resort by the .sea:— Here is a little bay, extending from Cape Elizabeth to Cape SmallPoint, a distance of about eighteen miles, with a depth of about twelvemiles, more thickly studded with islands than any water of like extenton the coast of the United States, there being something over 300islands in Casco Bay. Unlike the low sandy islands of the Massachu-setts coast, these are the most picturesque forms, while bold headlandsand peninsulas jut far out into the waters. There is the greatest possi-ble variety in the form and grouping of these islands. Some lie inclusters, some are coupled together by connecting sandliars, bare at lowwater, while others are solitary and alone. Nearly all of them are in-dented with beautiful coves, and crowned with a mingled growth of ,t*!fl^-R*2. « SURF BATHING BEACH or maple, oak, liL-t-cli, ]iiiie and fir, (.•xtemlinij iiften tii the waters edge, andreflected in many a deep inlet and winding cliannel. In tlie thick cov-ert of the firs and spruces are many green, sunny spots as sheltered andremote as if far , while beneath the wide-spreading oaks andbeeclies are pleasant walks and open glades. For the most part they rise like mounds of verdure from the sea,forest-crowned, and from their sunmiits one may behold on the onehand the waves of the Atlantic, breaking almost at his feet, and un tlie other, the placid waters of the bay, spangled by nndtituilinous gems ofemerald, while in the cim distance he discerns, on the horizon, the .
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