The Portland daily press., 1864-08-17
Notes by the Way-The Lumber City"

BANGOR, aug. Ia loo4.
A hot, uncomfortable Sabbath-day is draw
ing to close. The Lumber City, at this sea-
son of the year decked out In beautiful appar-
Ell, Is as quiet as small New England village.
Her people believe in churches as well as in
timber lands, and in worshipping the Most
High upon his holy day as well as pursuing the
shadows of tickle fortune the rest OF the week.
have already informed the readers OF the
Press of the arrival of the Mahoning at this
place very late Saturday evening. The reader
Is invited to go back to Rockland and more
deliberately sail up the Bay from the Lime to
the Lumber city. He has our guarantee that
he shall not be sea-sick. Rockland quarries
Its wealth from the lodges In the neighborhood
of the city. Her lime is known the Union
over, aud her lime kilns are the institutions of
the place. had time to look in upon but one
and that what Is known as the patent kiln. A
large pit Is excavated in the hillside and lined
up with stones that will stand the continued
action Of fire. It Is open at the top, 10 which
access is had on the back side or upon the
high ground in the rear, where the broken
stone, carted from the quarries, Is thrown in.
At the bottom. on the front side, are furnaces
In which the fires are kept burning beneath the
rock, so contrived with CRATES and supporting
pillars that, as the rock becomes sufficiently
burnt It eau be dumped still lower into re-
ceptacle from which 1t is shoyeled upon paw
ed floor to cool, preliminary 10 being put into
casks. The kiln Is of the capacity of perhaps
hundred aud lfty casks, and requires when
first lighted fire for some thirty-six hours
before II Is "drawn," or shoveled out. A
drawing viii make about thirty casks, and
this amount is shoveled ont once in about five
hours after the first drawing an equal a.
mount Of rock being thrown in upon the top
to keep the kiln full. The wood used in burn
ing Is second growth white pine; at least that
Is the kind saw most of. and very large
quantity Is demanded TO keep even one patent
KIM active operation, night and day, through
the season.
hpckiand Is substantial place Of great
wealth. beautifully situated, and commanding
full view Of one Of the finest sheets of water
In the worid,tiie water view being bounded by
the Fox Islands some eight or ten miles dis
tant. Some Of her citizens are among the not
ed men of the State, and have hled many i'm.
portant places in her councils. Here. too. was
the home of the gallant Berry who fell at
Charlottesville, and whose remains repose in
the Cemete y near the city.
Near Rockland on the eastern outward
bound passage is very pretty redoubt or
earth-work, thrown up last season and mount
ing several guns, to protect the approaches to
the town. An hours steaming or less brings
you In front OF the beautiful little town of
Camden, nesting on the shore at the foot of
the Megunticook mountain, an elevation of
perhaps 1900 feet above the level of the bay.
BY the way, II you win not breathe It aloud
to any OF the parties in CONTROVERSY. will
simply state that much of the capital derived
from Rnzier's Narrative of Weymouths early
voyages, upon which the Pophamifes and 9TH
er antiquarians have erected their superstruc-
lures, depends upon the question whether GER
tain mountains seen by Weymouth were the