Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-30

| S~-~S3 ssAAN nSPo oAhAAS oW6J. oo A0ASoh5 | I go to the hamlet for our lunch basket as
 this same party are going to a grove to l take their lunch or dinner. Mingled
 with them on the footpath, I l overhear one girl, perhaps eighteen years l old, remarking to her companion 'she ] was sorry that they had not gone to some
 other place, instead of coming to Otter l eliff,' "there was nothing to see here!" When got back with the basket and we l were eating our lunch in quietness and self possession of the scene once more, I rehearsed that remark, with an added one of my own, viz: That I would go five | hundred miles, if could afford it, to see | such place! 1 have seen cliffs and | cliffs. These have their own charms like no others known to me. They face east | across the waters where Frenchman's bay meets the ocean. The sea is very tran | quil this day, but the low smiling tide | waves are caving the base rocks far below l us in clear green and white borders and
 nuke their own music ''soft and low," as l the winds of the western sea, in Tenny
 sons cradle song. Off there a thousand feet or so away is ledge, unseen at this time, and most beautiful but treacherous l waves are trembling there over hidden rocks very dangerous to vessels. It hap pened later, I should see that ledge early one morning from the Iris. While the inspector, Captain Johnson, MT. Green and others went on it and measured it with reference to removing the Spindle" from the north to the south end.
 They had to do 1t at very low tide, and even then with the white swells striking
 the south end and rolling along the sides
 it was no easy matter to get on it or off it safely without the boat being upset. As it was, some of them had their hands cut with the sharp mussel shells which black ened that ledge. They did not stay there very long, either, but soon stretched their long tape line from the spindle sonth; and the water was already disputing foothold and, rising, would soon go over all again.
 Between watching them and looking at Otter cliff and Greene mountain from the sea my picture landward was rather a fail men on a narrow black ledge about one hundred feet long amid the dark and white seas is decidedly possession. And it be- longs to Otter cliff, for which the ledge is named. I thibk there ought to be a bell buoy there besides the spindle. Since sending in my paper on buoys have found out that bell buoys are not st all of raft nature, but all metal, and cost at least $1, 900 and more for larger ones.
 The view of Otter cliff and Greene noun tain from the sea is a very fine one. And
 now to return in mind and stand on the cliff again. The view of Otter peak, five hundred feet high, to north. and Great Head, northeast, would fill fine canvas and make grand picture. thought to come again, but never did. Three hours careful study of form and color gave me
 an abiding and realistic impression of | Otter cliff. I did not put one of those | children into the picture. They did not
 belong there, nor fully appreciate the mag nitude of it's isolated grandeur, were no | part of it, and hindered my friends work A rock forty feet high evidently detached | from the great mass, comes into my sketch. | Frost and ice pressure in the seam behind
 may sometimes crowd it forward until some winter it may topple over into the
 de aatacbed ma bI level with our resort outlying
 four or five feet wide aHa sfty feet feet deeni %
 is The Detached rock Would yc- inmp | across there for the sake of standing on It
 Possibly trip and tumble down that chasn
 into the sea. It is enough for me to look
 down there and not be too long about
 it for fear of dizziness! We are tired ot
 work, have kept at it three or four hours
 and must go. But got worthy addition
 that day to my Mt. Desert color studies
 From Bar Harbor, by good road past
 Dry mountain and it's wild and high tower ! 1uR IOCh ClluSJ tlSlGOIS COuO tDouU At
 miles to Otter cliff, part of the great driv'
 about the island. No one should miss it
 Jordou's pond or lake, so beautiful, il
 some two miles nearer Seal harbor, reached
 by short driving road, is great plac
 for visiting picnics. One house there
 Jordan's; good boats and good trout fish
 ing in season, so hear as to the fishing
 The rest I know, and I got one o
 my best pictures there, and made
 little one afterwards, and gave to the family who very kindl my own lunch brought and something the
 wished to add, reinforced and enabled m to get sketch seaward in the afternoon The Jordans were natives, long residen there. The lakes outflow gave them mi power. A fire swept aw1y the mill an !, the valuable heavy forests they once owne 1 about that lake. All the growth you SC l is second growth, and some blackened ( l line storm whitened large trees along an 9 up the mountain side. It has it's sad fes 3 ture that the changing years and circun : stances seemed to drive them away frol ! such beautiful scene, and the lands an | holding be sold and go into the hand t of capitalists who will make other use : them. I was glad that could do and gi1 n them that little color study of their ow a lake and mountains, for they remove : away from there late that autumn, an g the place that long knew them will kno ), them no more, unless as visitors.
 ), Whenever, if ever, we have any Wad o worth or Coleridge or other to glorify o1 e lakes as the English lake region has bee, n Jordan's pond, under some new name, IS old Indian name, may get it's due prais e But to me, although lake, with mou
 tains west and north and east, from ass d citation it must always be ''Jordar l. 1 Do.,d