Identifier: seacoastresor00inte (find matches)
Title: The sea coast resorts of eastern Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: International Steamship Company
Subjects: Seaside resorts
Publisher: (Boston, s.n.)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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ire day without sense of fatigue or heat, so clear, bracingand cool is the sea atmosphere. Fog never remains the entire day, andduring the last five seasons there has been not more than three dayseach summer month in which it was impossible to walk or drive, whilethe beauty of the landscape is wonderfully increased by the shuttingdown and lifting of the mists. A wind came up cut of the sea,And said, O mists, make room for me ! Campobello and Deer islands are the larger of the islands which shutout the sea from Passamaquoddy. Campobello has been chosen beforeits mates as an island summer resort from its beauty and grandeur ofsituation. Upon its shores begins the wild scenery of the Bay of Fundy, a namesonorous as its waves, which wash the beetling cliffs upon the outer shoreof Campobello. The fine model hotel, Tyn-y-coed, is happily situatedupon one of these cliffs, seventy-five feet above the level of the sea, andnear the waters edge. It is provided with all the comforts of a refinedi
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ijtfVV^TovC- >f SEA COAST RESORTS. 3 I home, and is beautifully furnished throughout. Its seaward view embracesa wide sweep of ocean, broken only by the purple cliffs of Grand Manan ;shoreward the hilly towns of Eastport and Lubec are in the view, whichalso holds the Dennys River and the famous St. Croix with varied vistas ofPassamaquoddy reaches through forest-crowned islands that intercept it. Campobello partakes with Eastport in the history of old-time boundarydisputes, and British occupancy of all the islands in the bay during thefour years, 1814-18, that all remained under martial law. The Englishclaimed that all belonged to Great Britain, as much so, to quote one oftheir commissioners, as Northamptonshire, an inland county of England. It had been a muddle since the treaty of 1783, at the close of theRevolutionary war — a muddle which required thirty-five years of diplo-matic squabbling to clear. Penally, under an article of the treaty ofGhent, concluded December 24, 1814, t

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