Identifier: summerdaysdownea00swee (find matches)
Title: Summer days down East
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897
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Publisher: Portland : Chisholm Brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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the Gardiners, built in 1836, and still held bythe family, is near the river, about a mile from the centre of the city.It was characterized in Downings book, as the most remarkable seatin Maine, as respects landscape gardening and architecture. Four miles out, on the Brunswick road, is Libbey Hill, command-ing a famous view over the lakes and forests and farms of the Kenne-bec valley. On a clear day the glimmer of the White Mountains maybe perceived, far away in the west; and more to the northward rise thenearer peaks of Saddleback and Mount Blue. Pleasant drives also leadto the bright waters of Cobbossee Contee Pond, and out across theKennebec to the Soldiers Home of New England, the military asylumat Togus Springs. It is a short four miles from Gardiner to its little sister city. Hallo-well, famous for fine granite. The train crosses the Cobbossee Conteejust above Gardiner, and then runs close along the Kennebec for aleague, past huge ice-houses, at whose wharves lies many a three-
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Hallowell. 29 masted schooner, and past several booms, in whicn myriads of logs arecollected. The lumber business still maintains great proportions,although it would seem as if the forests of entire empires had alreadybeen felled and drifted down the Maine rivers. In i88l, 150,000,000feet of lumber came down the Kennebec alone, and in 1883 there wereupwards of 110,000.000 feet. If the snow lies right, and the spring-rains are copious, the drive starts about the first of May, and reachesAugusta and Hallowell in July or August. In the 1883 drive therewere 1,000,000 feet each from Attean Pond, Moose River, and ColdStream; 7,000,000 from Dead River; 3,000,000 from Moxie Stream;and other large supplies from Brassua Lake, Parlin Pond, and remoterout-of-the-way nooks of the wilderness. HALLOWELL. Clattering past the cliff-like sides of the ice-houses, and whirlingswiftly around the river bluffs, the train soon reaches the famous river-port of Hallowell, small in population, but great in ener

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