Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town . rkins streets, resting a while at MadisonPark, the site of Fort Madison, which has recently beengiven up to the town by the United States for the pur-pose of a public park, and which it is intended to improveyear by year. A visit from the park can easily be madeto the light-house at Dyces Head. This is a stone towersheathed with wood and painted white. The light, afixed white, is one hundred and thirty feet above thelevel of the sea, and is visible at a distance of seventeennautical miles. The gentlemanly keep
Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town . rkins streets, resting a while at MadisonPark, the site of Fort Madison, which has recently beengiven up to the town by the United States for the pur-pose of a public park, and which it is intended to improveyear by year. A visit from the park can easily be madeto the light-house at Dyces Head. This is a stone towersheathed with wood and painted white. The light, afixed white, is one hundred and thirty feet above thelevel of the sea, and is visible at a distance of seventeennautical miles. The gentlemanly keeper of the light,Mr. Charles Gott, will admit visitors to the tower at allreasonable hours except on Sunday. The return from this stroll should be by High streetto the windmill and cemetery. To most people there isnothing especially attractive about the latter place, ex-cept the fine view it affords of the harbor. There areseveral old graves without headstones, and a tablet hasbeen set up over the grave of the first known occupantof the ground, who was a British soldier. There are. Walks and Drives. 91 also a few curious epitaphs to be found by those inter-ested in such matters. The windmill is in a very sightlyplace. This mill is rather superior to the one whichstood near there in the latter part of the last least, it has not yet required the frequent repairswhich the old song attributes to the former rhyme runs thus : On Hatchs HillThere stands a mill,Old Higgins he doth tend time he grinds a gristHe has to stop and mend it. The return to the village should be by way of Courtstreet. ? At the Common, on this street, is a memorialstatue which, though of small size, is well designed andartistically executed, and is far better deserving the timerequired to inspect it than many more pretentious andfar more costly ones. The stroll just described is abouttwo miles in extent. Another pleasant walk is from High street, past FortGeorge to Battery Griffi
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