New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-15

answered. "Oh, yes, ! suppose so u as IL IL would
he all up with Mount Desert after that catastrophe.
There has been such haste 10 find shelter for the
coming crowds that nobody has bad time yet for
decorations. The village has been thrown together
with a dreadful disregard of the beautiful, and
none of the principal hotels are in good
situations. But there are private cottages,
rising here end there among the brcbes
and pines on the edge of the cliffs. or
the breezy downs, which command the fairest
prospects and are exquisite specimens of taste
IN design aud color. Broad piazzas and shaded
balconies surround them and the wide windows
are open to the invigoratng air. Pompean red,
olive and dark green are the prevailing unts of the
outside. and these shades often relieved by
little dark mustard-velow or some warmer color.
The Drncipal charm in the natural scenery
of Mount Desert is the strange combination OF the
features of the mountain and the shore On an
island eighteen miles long by ten miles wide there
are ten or fifteen summlts, the highest of them
ab0nt 1000 feet above the sea- Except IN the
north. there is only q narrow and broken
plateau between the foot of the hills ana
the bold coast line. The mountains are
steep, and rising they do almost sheer from the
sea- their height appears to be much greater than il
really is. Between them lie many large and beautl-
ful ponds, the home of the trout and the source
and roaring to the sea. The mountains not only
give nearly unique character TO the scenery OF
the island. bu; they have a strong effect upon the
climate. The prevailing winds IN MINER are not
from the sea but from the mountains, and they very
often blow with great force and frcshness. Hence
nowhere else is there scacoast resort so tree from
dampness. Even the fogs are not wet. In ten days
have seen only one fog at Bar HaTbor. and that
was dry fog which disappeared before break
fast.
That shrewd observer, the author OF Backlog
Studies" remarks that there Is pretty well defined
pc-line running through New England, about on
tie parallel OF Bellows Falls Mount Desert lies
within the region of Perpetual Pie. A friend Of
mne dining al one of the taverns of the interior,
was served with maclSerel for the first course and
PIE for the second and last. They are not so abrupt
at Bar Harbor The mackerel and the PIE can ne
counted upon, but the transition Is managed here
with a regard for the aesthetics of the dinner table
TO which the unsophisticated mountain inn-keepers
are still strangers If the hotels are not all that
they might be- the best of them nevertheless supply
a wholesome and abundant table. on which
fish of delicious quality and freshness forms an I'M
portant and always welcome dish. The chief
amusemcnts. however of this singular place are
not connected with gastrOnOmy. They consist IN
riding walking. climbing, boating and watching
the DEVELOPMENT of the American hotel young lady.
who has here reached a spleudor of physical health
and beauty and wild freedom of manners which
have never seen equaled at the etfete watering
nlaces nearer home. | studied her, and her male
mates for some days-and nlqhts-with absorbing
interest This was not what had come to see;
but had found the Unconventional after all.
&. II