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Excerpt from Appletons' Summer Book: For the Seaside, the Forest, the Camp, the Train, the Steamboat, the Arbor, and the Watering-Place The dozen or so leading resorts are, of course, quickly compassed; but the ambitious youth who thinks to carry his knapsack into all the places that parade large hotels, or rejoice in a mountain, a glen, a trout-stream, a lake, or a prospect, little knows the legion that awaits his coming. Nature has certainly done wonders for us in the way of glorious scenery and inviting sheets of water; when man has effectually done his part in the hotels that he sets up and the locomotion he provides, the summer resorts of America will be endeared to every heart as so many happy paradises. Their variety is fairly endless. They skirt our sea-border;they nestle among our hills and mountains; they line our river-courses; they take possession of our islands; they make gay our lakes; they hang over our glens and cascades; they marshal in all places that have a natural grace. The weary town-worker who pants for green hills and shady dells, or longs for Cliffs at Mount Desert. the tonic of tumbling sea-waves, may find his health-giving rest at any point to which he may turn. Away on the coast of Maine are many notable places. First, on its remotest border, and without its dominion, is the island of Grand Manan, the home of fishermen and sea-fowl, with rugged and towering cliffs, and rude, primitive life, but with every condition to attract the artist, the sportsman, and the adventurer. It is not easy of access, being reached only by fishing-vessels from Eastport; but this may prove its chief attraction in the estimation of some tourists. Its cliffs are the highest on our shore, rising four hundred feet; and altogether it is a wild, weird place, the home of storms and fogs, a favorite summer haunt of the artist, and the very theme of the bold and romantic. Nearer than Grand Manan, and with some of its characteristics, is Mount Desert, also an island, lying a little over a hundred miles from Portland, in Frenchmans Bay. As it has an area of a hundred square miles, its separation from the main shore implies no unpleasant limitation of space. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.