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Title: Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Wheeler, George Augustus
Subjects: Castine (Me.)
Publisher: Boston, Rockwell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n-tinual flow of fresh water. The vigorous two-year oldsare kept in cool little pools shaded with green bushes,where they swim lazily around as if for the amusementof the spectator. The return home can be over the roadalready traversed or by way of Penobscot ridge andNorthern bay. The latter, though several miles farther,is much more interesting. The ride over the ridge affordsone of the most extensive views of natural scenery to befound in this vicinity. Another route is afforded the excursionist by turningoff a mile beyond the Xorth Castine post-office and goingto Winslows Cove, in Penobscot. From there he cancontinue on to Bluehill mountain, which is nine hundredand fifty feet in height and which has been visible nearlyall the way from Castine, or he can return through thetown of Brooksville and across the ferry to North Cas-tine. The Bluehill ride is chiefly remarkable for thenumber of steep hills to be surmounted. The climb upthe mountain is a hard, sharp pull, but the outlook is
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Walks and Drives. 95 magnificent, and a most charming view of the MountDesert hills and the bays and points of that portion ofthe Maine coast is a sufficient reward. Two interesting all-day trips can be made to the townof Brooksville. One can take the ferry-scow on Seastreet, near the steamboat wharf, and be towed across bysteamer to the landing near the wharf at High Head, andfrom there can go over a pleasant road through the fields,past the cemetery on the hill, to Indian Bar. This hasa fine water view on either side, and is an ideal spot fora clam-bake. The road to Goose Falls is over steep androcky hills, which might be cause for alarm were it notfor the proverbial carefulness of Castine drivers. Anold-fashioned house, with its profusion of creeping-jenny,hollyhocks, and other garden flowers, is not to be over-looked ; nor the picturesque falls, with a salt pond onone side and tide-mill on the other. A side road justbeyond the bridge leads to an abandoned copper-minewhich flourish

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