Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-10-27
Castiae.

Casiinr !. beautiful FOR situation. uu a
gentle dcclntts. ippA.uS ,l, Ip,u llv n4Hn
ero4s islands auIch stud thai r1rA, coast.
east AMI veal upon th, broad hA, Of t4e
Penobscot. the finest sheet Of water upon
this continent Far away. fourteen mile,
distant, Belfast, Al the Hr>tern extremity Of
the bay. SINNERS IN the morning .un. or
would. if il aerc no, cloudy, Here. m
Casiine some three hundred Summer birds.
from all parts Of the country. and Of ever,
plumage, gather, fold their wings. and COO
or chatter 10 each other. Here the minor
tai author Of Uncle Toms Cabin" draw,
her wraps about her and dreams Here the
venerable author of "Eyangcline walk,
about on the original Acadia, and recall,
the incidents of his youth in hls own native
State. Here the wonderful musician Pc
rabo, an expert on the piano, violin OF Jews
harp-l have forgotten whieh-saunters.
muse. and listens 10 the grand instrument
which sing.
The deep. profound, eternal bass in nature.
anthem,
And mAke- music such a. pleased the ear Of
God"
A wonderful. healthy. quiet. orderly and
religious place. it will Yet become popular
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sailing on the bay and up the Bagaluce
river, What safe and successful fishing for
the lover Of piscatoriai sport What hap
py hours has the writer spent in dory on
these waters, hosting the deep lead without
getting bite il was fishing, nevertheless.
and dreaming all the same. Q We hard toll
ers, with weary brain and shattered nerves,
and unstrung spirlt-harp, 60 TO castine :
There, with some private family. in roomy
mansion, with good. wholesome food, free
from fashion, folly and noise, at dollar a
day, recuperate
Rich in the romance Of history is this
ancient town. Look yonder, There come
sweeping around the point three or four
strange looking crafts. with high stem and
stern, filed with crowd of peculiar looking
beings, shouting and gesticulating to the
wondering sayages on the shore. Dropping
their anchors, they swan TO land. These
are the adventurous Vikings, the Mortimer,
and that was A. ID. 1000. They secured
along the coast down as far as the Nineya
Isles.
The scene changes. Look again, Ii is
now 1905. Three small ships pass the point
coming from the east, and hold their
course straight on up the bay and find the
mouth of great river, which they call Penn
tagoet, now Penobscot. 1t is the famous
Champlalp,
Once more the scene changes, and a small
vessel with some sober looking men sail in
to the harbor, and, after landing, commence
the erection of log house. Their bales
and boxes and puncheons of rum are un-
loaded, and the plymouth Company" put
out their single and invite the natives to
trade. 1t is 1926.
Look Yonder comes around that magic
point a flag with the lilies of France at the
mast head of an armed galleon. The sol
diers land, break up the Pilgrims shop, and
carry off the stock. 1t is 1855. These
Frenchmen build fort and commence house
keeping. Hark. Guns are heard in the
distance, and the dull echoes roll over the
waters of the bay and die away among the
hills 1t is the brave Captain Girling. who,
with his ship, the Great Hope" and crew
of twenty men with the renowned Miles
Standish on board, has engaged for seven
bunased pounds of beaver to drive the
"parlsx -r5ns" opt of Castine, and reinstate
the Plymouth traders. But with true Chi
nese strategy be commenced firing bis own
gun as soon as he got into the bay, and
when ne came In slgnt OF the Tort found his
powder exhausted, and sailed back safely 10
Plymouth.
Oliver Cromwell appears in my rambling
dream, not IN person, but by his representa-
tive Major Sedgwick, in 1854. He sailed
Into this war-vexed harbor, and drove out
the French. TO be again restored by the trea-
y Of Breda in 1851
Nov comes from Canada, in lace and
feathers, the Baron Jean Vincent de NJ, Cas-
tin and the old name Pemiagoet gives place
to the more euphonious Csstine. With true