Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-03
ON NEW ENGLAND,s COAST.
Boulder Drift-Granfte and Meta. morph1c Rocks - Pleasant Kecol- lection of-Pleasant Rambles.

ON NEW ENGLAND,s COAST.
 Boulder Drift-Granite and Meta morphic Rocks Pleasant Recol- lection ofPleasant Rambles.
 CONTINUED.
 But shall ever be glad I personally ex- plored as am now telling, and for fear I forget it, would say just here one or two very long narrow and deep chasms were seen beyond the Blue point. You look down perhaps fifty or sixty feet into a depth whose walls are vertical six or | eight feet apart and go extending a hun dred feet or more: How the sea must l come in there at times, wearing the walls | into mnch smoothness, and throwing up pebbles as large as your fist to the top of the chasm and leaving them high and dry on the lodges and extreme upper edges.
 Another sort of chasm was about twen- ty feet wide. The west side was an al most perpendicular wall of dark gray for ty or fifty feet high, tree had grown out of the side of it far down and lowered above it. On the left side the rocks very different and rather singular, with trees (bireh and spruce) among and above them, and also this extended about sixty feet from a very solid ledge, joining both walls landward, which went down back without rope, which I had not: What good of it? Just the satisfaction of getting down there when the tide was out and exploring on the stony bottom. What charming little waves were breaking around the east corner and rippling in! To com plete the picture an almost bare trunk of a fallen spruce slanted across from near the foreground to the opposite side of the chasm and was caught and so held on the right side, while mosses and various plants made the near rocks quite beautiful. It reminded me of "A. Calame's" studies or one of his paintings. GoupI & Go. of Paris published a great many of his Swiss studies, and they are excellent. His paintings brought high prices, but now he is some years dead.
 But this place was farther west than Adams landing, about which I would say l & little, because it is very odd landing | indeed, and the only place where boat could possibly go in for at least two miles l (perhaps for four) with any sort of swell on the sea- Even the rising and falling of | the tide twelve feet makes the water curl | and foam around the rocks. Men could l get on the lower rocks in many places, but 1 where would the boat be after knocking against them and getting holes in her side, | bow or bottom? No! The Maine coast is rather hard coast to get wrecked on any l where, and saw reaches far east of Mt. | Desert, where it looked as if men could neither climb the smooth worn steep shore rocks, nor lay hold of them. Wrecked | be no human hope of escape. But what Adam Pierpont could do at his long sliuce-way between rocks and among rocks with dory or sailboat, ordinary boatmen could not do. In hardihood he went in and out on the treacherous sea, between the Blue point and what lies west. One day came down thro' the woods without path and finally struck trial which led me accidentally to his deserted and half ruined homestead, with it's stone chimney standing, and the and that was some ten minutes walk from his landing, a lonely place a mile or so from anybody else. A nice brook came down into the head of his stony landing, where he would have to haul his boat fa1 up the slanting rocks to have it safe even there. But he had gone away for years perhaps was dead. Yet the brook kept or right there in is stony bed, and it's mur muriug song he hears no more, but il
 sings just the same to the woods and the sea, and of it's clear waters drank severa | AoAAOEAASA
 he often did
 , There is some sort of pathos hanging
 over such deserted places, and I have seer l them in the hard places of Connection among the hills and by the brooks. Or the whole imagine his life was kind o 5 hard life as many fishermen do have, o 4 l others inland in our own state whose hold
 ing of scant acres, so sterile, drove the las
 descendant to parts unknown. Same tim
 
 D leaves it's shores and the brooks run t : greet it, and they wear their stony bed J. deeper and deeper by all the sand an o gravel they carry with them, and the SC tears out the shore rocks where they com B in to give them a wider and larger we l. come. So this brook had no thought ( e making landing for anybody, but onl > wished to land itself in the sea. I'll @ clouds bathed the mountain, and the broo B headed where the clouds kissed the mou1 It tain It watered all the mosses and tt
 ferns and innumerable plants and bushe
 and trees, and caressed the wild flower
 and listened to the careful step of the det 1 are deer at Mt. Desert-and ga, 2 them a drink; and to all u song birds which came. But the broo
 still rejoiced on it's way to the sea. for ,s really belongs to the sea and came out of | ,eI charts about the wind and the sea, whe
 we get off where the brooks are we like le think about them, twelve inches deep
 water daily evaporated in the equatori
 regions has to go somewhere in the cloud
 also little. Allow 200 feet for the lant
 ing sea way and say good bye to the brool
 which seemed to call for rest Al le after good scramble we reach the ne
 one just west of Mt. Desert head and ha, h. walked about mile. This brook has {
 entrance chasm into the sea of differe,
 sort and here tarry more than once wi J. much interest. If we are up on Mt Desc
 head (some pilots so call it) we are on
 very bold mass of granite some hundre
 of feet across and still rising as most
 these cliffs do as they retreat from u
 shore. It projects seaward beyond i
 neighbors and by my measurement with
 trout line and reel and stone, is fifty k- feet high above water.
 A low, trailing shrub, almost like mos
 abounds there in places like a dense ar thick carpet. Some junipers also, and 10. lone spruce, storm-wo and low is sen
 nel on the great natural bastion. Fro 'n it's eastern edge sketch back to the Bl sr- Point and Hunters Cove and Schood
 mountain again, far away. The sea is n
 running high, but all foaming along t
 granite aoast about the Blue Point and
 | Iar IS we cdu VleW the SOugQ cOaSC eas
 Far away it is beautiful ultramarin
 nearer it blends blue with green, and dov
 where it foams so it is very light gree
 with white against all the shore rocks al n- the outlying rocks near, which are whi
 with barnacles or dark with rock weed, b a at high tide they would be under wate 't, It is very interesting picture as it han 10 up there on the wall by the one from t CT Blue Point, showing how differently t a. a. rock masses far along look from the O '1. side or the other side.
 The picture I feel much desirous to g
 the readers attention to comes next. es taking slant to the northwest and folio he ing the sort of trail alluded to one ge cs down a steep place and crosses the broo 'ss Wishing to sketch the Head from the we
 side find @ place which suits weu-a TO
 shelf or seat with rock back in sto e. nook sheltered from the cool October vii n, and have before me looking eastward ,o my feet @ short chasm down below, de "a, into the sea. Then mass of metame
 phic rock. Then a wide chasm extendi
 ! farther within also daan in tho uatar r