Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry IslesN.K. Sawyer, printer, 1871 - 64 Seiten |
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66 Goose Cove 66 S. W. Harbor 66 Seal Cove 66 Tremont A. C. Fernald A. J. Whiting Abraham Agent Alex Higgins Bartlett's Island Bass Harbor Belfast Benj boat Boston Capt Castine coast Cran Cranberry Isles Daniel Daniel Gott Deer Isle Defile Mountain Desert dike Dog Mountain due north East eastern Eaton Clark Ellsworth Enoch Spurling Ezra Young fishing glacial Goose Cove Gott grant Green Mountain Gregoire H. H. Clark Hadlock Hamor Heath Higgins HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES House inhabitants Island of Mt James Richardson John John Rich Jonesport lake land lumber Machiasport Maine meeting miles mills moraines Morgan's Bay Norwoods Cove Ocean plantation Plasentia Portland Pretty Marsh Proprietor Residence Rich road rock S. A. Holden sailed Salis'y's Cove Salisbury's Cove Samuel scenery Ship shore Somesville Sound South West Harbor STEAMER ARGO Stephen Richardson Sutton's Island town of Mt vessels Voted W. H. Preble warrant Wasgatt William Thom
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Seite 11 - A rude and unshapely chapel stands, Built up in that wild by unskilled hands. Yet the traveller knows it a place of prayer. For the holy sign of the cross is there : And should he chance at that place to be. Of a Sabbath morn, or some hallowed day. When prayers are made and masses are said. Some for the living and some for the dead. Well might that traveller start to see The tall dark forms, that take their way From the birch canoe, on the river shore.
Seite 17 - Mysterious round! what skill, what force divine, Deep felt, in these appear! a simple train, Yet so delightful mix'd, with such kind art, Such beauty and beneficence combined ; Shade, unperceived, so softening into shade ; And all so forming an harmonious whole ; That, as they still succeed, they ravish still.
Seite 19 - ... in a cup-like depression half-way up the mountain-side, and its magnificent view from the summit. At the very entrance to the island, on passing over the toll-bridge of Trenton, there is an excellent locality for glacial tracks. The striae are admirably well preserved on some ledges at the Mount Desert end of the bridge. The trend of these marks is northnortheast, instead of due north as in most localities ; and here is one of the instances where this slight deflection of the lines is evidently...
Seite 20 - ... Somewhat beyond it, on the shore, are two very distinct polished and grooved surfaces, with the lines running due north. On the afternoon of the same day, I ascended Green Mountain. Along the lower part of the road the marks run northwest, then northnorthwest, converging more and more toward their normal course, until, after passing the first summit, and thence upward, they lose entirely the slanting direction impressed upon them by the deflection of the ice about Frenchman's Bay, and run due...
Seite 20 - ... line along the shore, formed, no doubt, by some unusually severe storm, coinciding with high-water. It resembles the well-known sea-wall of Chelsea Beach. Behind this wall stretches an extensive marsh, formerly a part of the sea. Somewhat beyond it, on the shore, are two very distinct polished and grooved surfaces, with the lines running due north. On the afternoon of the same day, I ascended Green Mountain. Along the lower part of the road the marks run northwest, then northnorthwest, converging...
Seite 28 - Bill having had two several readings, passed to be enacted. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President. By the Governor approved. ' JOHN HANCOCK. True copy. Attest, JOHN AVERY, JUN., Secretary.
Seite 27 - Authority within 30 miles of this place, whereby we can be married as the Law directs, We do promise in the presence of God and the angels * * * * to cleave to each other so long as God shall continue both our lives.
Seite 21 - ... surrounding surface and perfectly smooth. After a time, and not without some hard work, a wedge was driven in, and with the help of a crow-bar two or three very satisfactory specimens were pried out. I naturally wished to pay the man for his labor ; but he refused to take anything, 'saying that he saw I was a geologist travelling for the sake of investigation. He added, that he subscribed for one or two papers and magazines : perhaps he should meet with some of the published results of my journey...
Seite 22 - These ice-fields extended considerably into the Atlantic Ocean. " The aspect of the coast of New England," he concludes, " must then have been very similar to that of Greenland in its colder portions. Mount Desert itself must have been a miniature Spitzbergen, and colossal icebergs floated off from Somes's Sound into the Atlantic Ocean, as they do nowadays from Magdalena Bay.
Seite 28 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the...