. King's handbook of Boston harbor. de at Hampden, which the British fleetcaptured in 1814, after a most wearisome attempt to catch the flying militiaregiments, drawn up here to give battle. The United-States corvette JohnAdams was, destroyed during this farcical engagement. A few miles beyond, A/NGS IIANDBOOA OF BOSTON HARBOR. 265 the steamer reaches (at about noon) her terminal port, the great lumbermetropolis of Bangor, twenty leagues from the sea, and crowning a line ofgraceful hills with the homes of upwards of twenty thousand people. Herethe enterprising tourist may take train for the ch
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. de at Hampden, which the British fleetcaptured in 1814, after a most wearisome attempt to catch the flying militiaregiments, drawn up here to give battle. The United-States corvette JohnAdams was, destroyed during this farcical engagement. A few miles beyond, A/NGS IIANDBOOA OF BOSTON HARBOR. 265 the steamer reaches (at about noon) her terminal port, the great lumbermetropolis of Bangor, twenty leagues from the sea, and crowning a line ofgraceful hills with the homes of upwards of twenty thousand people. Herethe enterprising tourist may take train for the chief points in central andwestern Maine and the Maritime Provinces. The swift and stanch steamer Mottut Desert (belonging to the Bostonand Bangor S. S. Co.) leaves Rockland early in the morning, after the arrivalof the boat from Boston, and stretches across Penobscot Bay to the centralgroup of islands, which it traverses through the charming scenery of Fox-Island Thoroughfare, touching at several quaint maritime villages, and giving. Steamship f Cambridge, Boston and Bangor S. S. Co noble views of the Camden Mountains, the remote seaward cliffs of Isle auHaut. and the bold peaks of Mount Desert. After crossing Placentia Bayit visits Bass Harbor and South-West Harbor, rounds the bold eastern head-land of Mount Desert, and runs up Frenchmans Bay, by a long line ofspray-whitened cliffs and many a costly villa, to Bar Harbor, the easternNewport, which is reached in time for dinner (the distance being 65 miles).From thence the course extends to the head of the bay, to Sullivan. Thistrip across Penobscot Bay is one of the most interesting in America, richin every variety of marine and coast scenery, light-houses and beacons,straits and bays, and grand mountains, with the electric sea-air sweepingover all. The Mount Desert is almost new, and has a wide renown for herspeed and her seaworthy qualities. The greater part of her voyage leads 266 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. through a la
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