Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-09-22

Of the royal family, rocks covered with
moses, birches i'll white attire, bunchber-
ries and banks Of wintergreen, strawberry
and burberry, hedges of wild roses
patches Of harcbell, begu!e the way
Now and then you catch glimpses Of the
ocean ; you think you are sphered ii
eternity. Now and then you hear the
waves dash on the rocks, and you feel tn,
wind which has swept for miles across tn,
sea. You look up inland, by-and-by ,liit,
ing your eyes as at some mysterious sum
fnohs, aud behold strong and lofty
+ mountain wall, stretching in a beautiful
waving line along the sky. As you pro
ceed, the outlook widcns, ard the ''shae
gy Sides as well as the green summit
are revealed to you. Then are uncover
ed the stony foundations Of the Eyerlast
Ing Rock. Every shade Of brown ant
gray seems to nave presentation in thest
racks~-they are built up in Iedges ant
columns as compact and uncompromisine
as anything in nature.
Inland, between Spoat'n Horn aud
Thunler Hole, stands u iishcrman's house
or rather she'd. Two wild sprltes ol
children, giIs both Of them, with ghaStly
faces and wild eyes, and uukept locks. =
barefoot, barc-armed, bare-necked, almost
are-5odied, and coughing desperately,
volunteered, when | began to make in-
quiry. to direct me to the cave, or oven.
SO we made our way across i field Of fec!.
and bush, in as straight Il line as possible
to the cave, and fortune favored us, for
we had unawares arrived at an hour when
the tide was low and the .'oven" empty.
1t is great cave in the savage rock,
an irregulariy arched, resounding cave,
from whose roof aud sides jet cfags and
ledgcs Of redish green and gray. Eedish
green and gray! Let me rather state
the "unyarnished fact" rocks Of erer9
hue, on some Of whose smooth surfaces
appear the prismatic coIors, softly shin.
Ing the oaverns subdued light. y caye
whose floor is well barnacieI, whose sides
are ornamented by ringed, streakcd, and
speckled shells OF gay orange, purple.and
green ornameutation in the creyiccs ol
whose rocky Aoor are little pools OF Wa
ter, aquarias III fact, arranged in the most
fantastic ana artistic fashion. Pink carr
pets and bright gre9n hangings decorate
the bou loir5 oil the sea anemone sea
plume3 and sca-fa8s adoFn the walls ei
my lady in lilac and my lady in lavender
| am quite persuaded, my dear Ladepea4-
cat, there are few wonders to be seen 50
daintily aud uniquely beautiful as these
chambers OF nlinc leading out oi
Neptune gri,a cave.
,:hc children who were my euiaes>werC
new to the pIacr, and a. delighted as the
stranger they were guiding. They thot
had token a dreadful sight OF pains to
come to that ere place, and wished was
goih to stay with 'cm two or three
MONTHS. Of what beggarly elements
must the nature be composed that cou,d
not respoHd to such WISH,
Climbing the rogl,s beyond this Than.
der Cavern, We reached 4 hight which
comman ted Newport mountain, Spout'n
Horn. beds and walls Of rock, and the
b,uc occan with lis eycr-chaprin, il hts
ami olorv-;ts stands and its r.iif,Z1nl
batta1 .,;ll it, hro,,j Ynlr5,,en cx,.nse
and oy,lhanojus heavens and our wonder
ended that Church should have come here
wear by year from boyhooa IN to man.
ho1l .,ul that =, II lrt ti.tS love I hf, pi.!rt,