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up the mountain-side. The sides of this, as of all the eminences, are precipitous and savagely rugged, a tangled forest growth covering the lower portions, while the tops are bare and riven rocks. The beautiful Eagle Lake adds a charm to the ascent, and when the mountain-top is reached and the fog permits there is a grand view over hill and vale and lake, with the deeply-cut Somes Sound penetrating almost through the island, whose contour is set out like a map. Behind us is the grand stretch of the Maine coast, seen with its bays, islands, and headlands extending from Penobscot to Passamaquoddy. Eagle Lake nestles among the mountain-peaks, and from almost alongside it comes up the railway that eases the traveller's ascent. There is also a carriage-road coming up, which was ruined by dynamite blasts to prevent competition a few weeks ago. In front of us spreads the open sea, limited only by the horizon, and like a speck, seen twenty miles away, is the lighthouse upon the bleak crags of Mount Desert rock, the most remote beacon in its distant isolation upon the coast of New England.

And here I close this pleasant story. During the summer we have been exploring some of the most interesting portions of our country. We crossed New Jersey from the Delaware River to the metropolis of New York, and viewed its active city-life, wonderful development, and attractive surroundings, its noble harbor, its parks and pleasure resorts, and some of its suburban attractions. Then we entered New England, admired its splendid scenery and its arching elms, visited its great hives of industry, its busy marts of manufacture and trade, traversed its coasts, scanned its fisheries, and, with a keen appreciation of its sterility and forbidding surface, saw the beginnings and studied the early history of the pushing, energetic, and indomitable Yankee race. Then, plunging into the forests of Maine, we have recognized another wonderful development, and enjoyed the beauties of

its unrivalled bays, islands, and archipelagoes, finally halting on its rock-bound shores. And yet at no time have we been distant more than twenty-four hours' railway ride from Philadelphia. Beyond us, farther eastward, there is yet a little more of Maine, but not much that is novel-more islands, more rocks and forests, more fishery-villages and pleasant sea-expanses, until, finally, the serrated coast of the grand old "Pine-tree State" ends with Quoddy Head and its red-and-white striped lighthouse tower just at the national boundary, which marks the limit of New England and the entrance to the dividing St. Croix River and Eastport. These wanderings have been instructive, and it is hoped their recital has been profitable to the reader. Somewhere I have heard a definition of the noun "tramp," which has recently been incorporated into our American language, that indicates a twofold form of that individual. One is the vagabond who scares the womenfolk in the rural districts into giving him undeserved food-a distressful, homeless, aimless wanderer. The other is the more prosperous fellow, who has a home, but don't want to stay there, and goes rambling over the face of the earth in quest of novelty. Possibly our tramp of this summer may have created in the home-stayer who has read its history something of the enjoyment given in making the record, and it may have also produced new thoughts and aspirations to enhance future pleasures.

Reluctantly bidding farewell to the rock-bound coasts of Maine, our Eastern Tour is ended.

"Still they must pass! the swift tide flows,
Though not for all the laurel grows.
Perchance in this beslandered age
The worker, mainly, wins his wage;
And time will sweep both friends and foes
When FINIS comes!"

Agamenticus, Mount, 229, 236, 239. Armory, Springfield, 128, 129.

INDEX.

Bath, Me., 244, 245.

Battery, N. Y., 19, 56.

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Blackstone, William, 153, 169, 187.
Blackwell's Island, 56, 58.
Blessing of the Bay, bark, 188.
Blind, New York Institution for, 40.
Block Island, 119, 163.
Block, Adraien, 118.
Bloomingdale Road, N. Y., 25.
Blue Hill, Me, 260.

Blue Hill Bay, Me., 262.

Blue Hills of Milton, 175, 207.

Blue Hills of Southington, 115, 117.
Blue Laws, Connecticut, 123, 126.

Battery Park, N. Y., 11, 16, 20, 86, Blue Noses, 224.

95.

Bay State, 126, 149, 176.
Bayonne, N. J., 10, 92, 96.
Beach, Tent on the, 226.

Beacon Hill, Boston, 187, 191, 194.
Beacon Street, Boston, 192, 194, 204.
Bear Mountain, 146.

Bedford Street, Boston, 201.
Bedloe's Island, 10, 63.
Beech Mountain, Mount Desert, 263.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 66, 112, 141,
142.

Beecher, Lyman, 66.

Beer-brewery, Portsmouth, 227.
Belchertown, Mass., 152.
Belfast, Me., 248, 259.

Belfast harbor, Me., 258.

Blueberries, 264.

Blythe, Lieutenant, 243.

Board of Aldermen, N. Y., 25, 32.
Bodwell granite, 256.
Bonner, Robert, 48.
Bond Street, N. Y., 27.
Boodle aldermen, N. Y., 32.
Booksellers, N. Y., 28.
Boon Island, 237.

Boon Island Light, 237.
Booth, Edwin, 31.

Boston, 187-209, 215, 219.
Boston and Albany R. R., 140, 149.
Boston Back Bay, 203, 204.
Boston City Hall, 196.

Boston Common, 188, 191-194.
Boston Fire, 192, 198, 200, 203.

Bellevue Avenue, Newport, 166, 171. Boston Frog Pond, 193.

Bellevue Hospital, N. Y., 58.

Belmont, August, 35, 74.
Belvidere, Central Park, 51.

Benefit Street, Providence, 160, 161.
Benevolent Street, Providence, 160.
Bennett, James Gordon, 41.
Bennington, Vt., 229.

Bergen Hill, N. J., 10, 12, 96.
Bergen Point, N. J., 10, 92, 96.

Berkeley and Carteret, 92.
Berkeley, Dean, 170.

Berkeley Street, Boston, 204.
Berkshire county, Mass., 138–150.

Berkshire Hills, Mass., 127, 135,
138-150.

Berlin, Conn., 117.
Berry Pond, 141.

Beverly Beach, Mass., 224.
Beverly, Mass., 218, 221, 224.
Bible House, N. Y., 29.
Biddeford, Me., 240.
Billings, Josh, 139.
Blackbeard, pirate, 236.
Blackstone, R. I., 154.

Blackstone River, 152-157.

Boston Harbor, 187, 188, 210.
Boston Light, 189, 210.
Boston Navy-yard, 206, 211.
Boston massacre, 198.
Boston Post, 197.

Boston Public Garden, 192, 193.
Boston Public Library, 202.
Boston, South End, 197.

Boston State-House, 191, 192, 194,

195.

Boston, West End, 197, 203.
Bostonian society, 198.
Bostwick, warehouseman, 95.

Boulevards, N. Y., 52.
Bound Brook, 9.

Bound Brook Route, 7.
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 220.

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 244.

Bowerie estate, N. Y., 29.

Bowery, N. Y., 24, 30, 56.
Bowling Green, N. Y., 19, 22.
Boxer and Enterprise, 243.
Boylston Street, Boston, 192, 197,

204.

Bradford, Governor, 177, 182, 186.

INDEX.

Bramhall's Hill, Portland, 241, 242, | Byram River, 106.

Broadway, N. Y., 11, 15, 21-34, 56, Canonicus, 186.

Buttermilk Channel, N. Y., 63, 65, Charlestown Navy-yard, 206, 211.