. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . spread before us ;■ as in a chart. ^\ Islands so big that we thought them a part of the mainland when we sailed past, now are seen encircled .3^, by water. Every bay and cove and inlet, and each little island is plain at a glance. The lake is vitreous and gleaming like ice, and resembles a cameo,whose form has been carved out of the rough epidermis of forest downto some pearly layer underneath. Across it comes the boat fromGreenville, like a white bird
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . spread before us ;■ as in a chart. ^\ Islands so big that we thought them a part of the mainland when we sailed past, now are seen encircled .3^, by water. Every bay and cove and inlet, and each little island is plain at a glance. The lake is vitreous and gleaming like ice, and resembles a cameo,whose form has been carved out of the rough epidermis of forest downto some pearly layer underneath. Across it comes the boat fromGreenville, like a white bird at the apex of a triangle made by its ever-widening wake: iHit it is only by long watching that we can see that itmoves. Little cats-paws, turning up the blue under side of the wave-lets, ruffle the lustrous surface, and by the progress of j^atches of thisdeeper color we can trace where some swift zephyr scuds across, or acurrent is blowing steadily. I am aroused from my revery by mycompanions voice, soft, almost 83 Yes —what is it? Did you say that Mt. Kineo is a mass of pure flint? Yes, or pretty much the same tiling. Thats what the Indianword means — arrow-head stone. Tlie whole state was supplied withmaterial for sharp stone implements from this place. Its the biggestchunk of hornstone in the world. Well, Theo, I was just thinking, you know, that if, some day,that big mountain of iron down at the furnaces, should march up hereand pitch into Kineo, how the sparks would fly! I decline to laugh, by word or deed, and my wife doesnt seem todemand it, but contentedly nestles into her coat again, and lets hereyes rest in serene delight upon the scene. Northward, the lake is spread out, keystone-shape, with equaldistinctness, and an almost interminable plain of forests, with a fewlittle summits far away as boundary marks. This unbounded forest inevery direction forms, indeed, the dominant and memorable feature ofthe view. As the breadth of the ocean held our gaze on
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