Identifier: pinetreecoastdra00drak (find matches)
Title: The Pine-tree coast
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
Subjects: Maine -- Description and travel Atlantic Coast (North America)
Publisher: Boston. estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f a hundred years ago. Some are the remains of trenches,and some merely serve to show the positions of old camps pitched outside thefortress. By descending the hill a little, from the northwest angle of the fort, a well-preserved battery shows how strongly the land approach was guarded. Stilllower down a deep moat was cut across the isthmus, thus Avholly severing itfrom the mainland, the passage to and fro being made over a bridge. Strictguard was kept here. Yet it was by this dangerous route that Wadsworthmade his escape through the sentinels to the opposite shores ; so that his namehas become attached to the cove opening into the bay, at the left here. Although Castine lies somewhat off the direct route from Kockland to MountDesert, the Penobscot Bay steamers alTord frequent communication with thatisland. It would be difficult to trace out a more beautiful excursion than isthus placed at the visittn-s disposal, or one from whieli he could derive equalpleasure for so small an outlay.
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NEW YORK \>PUaLIC LiB«A*iy HISTORIC CASTINE. 287 After passing out of the harbor, the route skirts tlie curiously stratified rocksof Caj)e Rosier, another locality which has been bought up by improving specu-lators. It then turns sharply away to the east tcj enter the far-famed Eggemog-gin Reach, or Naskeag, as the old charts name it, a nariow strip of water sepa-rating the shores of Brooksville, Sedgwick, and Brooklin from those of LittleDeer and Great Deer Isle. For a dozen miles, or from the entrance at Pumj)-kin Island out again at the Devils Head, no sail could be more charminglydiversified, more full of scenic surprises, or more free from actual or hiddendangers. One cannot look in any direction without seeing some new picture.Then the water is everywhere deep and unobstructed by sunken ledges, and sostill that but for the occasional appearance of a landing or a fishermans skiff,one might easily fancy himself sailing on some calm stream of an undiscoveredcountry. At Indian C

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