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Image from page 213 of “The Pine-tree coast” (1891)
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Identifier: pinetreecoast00drak
Title: The Pine-tree coast
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
Subjects: Maine — Description and travel Atlantic Coast (Me.)
Publisher: Boston. Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University
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was going at the time, but themaster was like the man who heard the sound of the trumpet and took notwarning. In this picture and its story are comprised one phase, at least, of life as itis known to the men of Monhegan. Monanis is nothing in the world but a bald rock, chipped off at the sides,rising up sheer and stark from the waters edge. Could we imagine a gianthammering away at it in the rough, until he had wrought out some semblanceto roundness and symmetry, what we see would represent the crude result.Underneath its battered sides, snatched as it were from the sea. nestles thetiny harbor — such a retreat, for instance, as Ariel tells Prospero he has hidaway the kings ship in — ?? the deep nook where onceThou calldsl me up at midnight, n> fetch dewFrom the still vexd Bermoothes: there shes hid. 210 THE PINE-TREE COAST. This harbor lies all open to the southwest, but is nearly walled in at theupper end by a high and dry ledge, thrust across it from Monanis, so as barely
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A MOXHEGAN LAD. to leave room for boats to pass in and out this way. They call it Smutty Xosehere. Upon this natural breakwater there is a signal-mast, which persistently MONHEGAM ON THE si;A. 211 refuses to stand up straight, though it docs make a picturesque addition to the < i,si miJc of the harbor, which, in spite of its having proved the salvation ofmany a big ship, is really so diminutive as to give you the idea of a basinful ofwater dipped up from the ocean. As we forged slowly along, among the fleet of idle boats moored in mid-harbor, all tht settlement of Monhegan, ami no small part of its inhabitants,came under close inspection. It is all here, by the shore of the harbor. Onecan count all the houses, see what is going on out of doors, take note of sundryevidences of thrift or decay, trace the path leading up to the lighthouse on tie-hill, or dive down into the hollows beyond, which make an oasis in this oceansolitude. The first step taken on the little beach inducts one i
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