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Title: Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island ..
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: (Lapham, William Berry), 1828-1894. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Mount Desert Island (Me.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Press of Liberty printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ssed, and the next and last stationis Mount Desert Ferry, situated on the easterly side of Frenchmans Bay.During the past season Bangor parties have erected an elegant hotelat this point which will doubtless become a popular resort. It is builtupon a bluff near the railway station, and rightly named the Bluffs,has delightful surroundings, and a fine view of the bay. Here the pas-sengers leave the cars, embark on board the commodious ferry boatwhich, with steam up, is waiting, and after half an hours sail, in-haling the cooling and refreshing breeze from the open sea, the bay iscrossed and Bar Flarbor is reached, Passengers can leave Boston inelegant palace cars at nine oclock in the morning and before eight thesame evening they can be at their hotel or cottage at Bar Harbor. Orthey can leave Boston at seven oclock in the evening by sleeping cars,arrive in Bangor at five-thirty the following morning and at Bar Har-bor at eight-thirty. The day train during the excursion season is a fast
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MOUNT DESERT FROM THE BLUFFS. MOUNT DESERT FERRY. 18 express, and makes the distance between Boston and Bangor, includingall stops in less than eight hours. Persons preferring the water route can take the steamers City ofRichmond or Lewiston at Portland, which make the round tripbetween Portland and Machiasport twice a week, stopping at )>ar Harborand all places of importance along the coast. This route has the advan-tage of enabling one to view the grand scenery which is unfolded fromevery side from the time Rockland is left until Bar Harbor is reached. PLACES HISTORIC AND PICTURESQUE. Many of the summer residents at Bar Harbor content themselveswith remaining in the vicinity of the village, and spend the whole season,and season after season without visiting other points of interest, whileothers do not like to settle down to the quiet of cottage life until all themysteries of the Island have been explored. To such as enjoy visitingthe outlying nooks and corners, there is every fac

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