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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less waters below. Here and there are grovesand thickets, sometimes even extensive forests of rich dark-greenfoliage, making bold and effective contrasts with the steel-gray or dark-blue of the Kennebec and the neutral tints of the farm lands. TheSusquehanna is sweet and feminine, like its name; the Hudson isEuropeanized, a practical Western Rhine; the Mississippi slips slowlydown through thousands of miles of long-drawn lowlands; the Kenne-bec, in its strong syllables, exemplifies its rude northern strength anddash, suggesting the tinkling of its forest tributaries, with the sound ofthe ice-pick and the woodmans axe. On this lower and navigable tenleagues, from Brunswick to Augusta, the deficiency of the scenery ingrandeur or richness is counterbalanced by a certain mellow beauty,full of tranquillity and power to soothe. Now and then great rafts oflogs drift by, manned by tall and active lumbermen ; or trim coastingvessels, laden low with crystalline ice; or white steamboats, crowded
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Gardiner. 25 with merry-making travellers bound for the sea and its islands: orlonely skiffs, mere dots on the wide and glistening waters. On thefurther shores appear occasional glimpses of white villages, the spiresof little rural churches, a rosary of farm-houses clearly relievedagainst the green hills, far-extending ice-houses with many a rockingmast and spar outlined before them, the green lateral glens of inflowingstreamlets, and the graceful highlands stretching far and clear under thebright sky of the North. It seems a land of endless peace, in which itis always afternoon. Through this still Arcadia the train speeds away,and at least reaches Gardiner, the city of ice. GARDINER. Gardiner is a city, with the population of a village, and the institu-tions of a great town. It is a third of a century since it received a citycharter, but the population has not yet reached 5,000 souls, andmay never do so, since it has fewer inhabitants now than in i860 or1870. Nevertheless, it possess

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