Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-08-10
GARDEN SPOTS
OF HANCOCK COUNTY u LOVELY
OTIS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED.
woRrH-BEACTiFUL DRIvEs-FINE
FIsHISG-A GREAT FUTURE


Twenty-three miles east from Bangor,
behind the long line of blue hills that form
rim to the seemingly level bottomed ba-
sin containing Brewer and part Of Holden,
the little town of Otis sits serenely in the
summer sunshine in perpetual Sabbath
stiffness, says writer in the Bangor Nelcs
Neat little white painted houses, backed by
rich, well titled gardens. meadows and
fruitful orchards stand out here and there
from the dense forest, which rolls down
from the lofty hill tops in the west, or
sweeps away to the low shelving branch
of some silvery lake. Parts Of six lakes lie
within the limits of the town.
This IS the land of lakes and hills Like
Paddy's pig, which was fattened to grow
a streak of fat and streak of lean. this
country was formed to show a streak of
mountains and stretch of water. Range
rises back of range, their lofty pinnacles
clothed in dark green vestments Of pine
and spruce, their bald rock heads, fire
swept, rising up to meet the clouds.
In between these the ponds and lakes are
scattered as closely as ponds and lakes
can he without becoming one body. 1t is
a country little known to outsiders, this
which lies just to the north of Green Lake,
now the pleasure spot of many metropoli-
tan millionaires, but it is too close to
Names great pleasure ground and too at
to al Ian
Beginning at Little Mountain pond just
north of Green Lake where the govern
ment has established its pound for catch
ing salmon for spawn, the number of lakes
separated from each other by narrow rib
bons of land from few rods to mile or
two in width can be counted to score or
more. Some of them are several miles in
length and breadth, and few of them are
less than a mile in length.
In this range are Beech Hill pond, the
prettiest body of water in the world, H at
Case, Mountainy, Rocky. Little Rocky,
The Lizard, Burnt Pond, Flood, Springy,
Spectacle and many others. The scenery
about each is of the most romantic char
| acter, while the fishing in all is some
thing unsurpassed in the country. Beech
Hill ponds monster perch and trout are
known to few local fishermen, while
Floods ponds peculiar square tailed trout
have been spoken of all through New Eng
land. Springy pond is the home of grand
| pickerel, and all of them furnish sport the
| like of which is hard to find.
Beech Hill pond is perhaps the most in
teresting In every respect of all the lakes
that lie east of the blue Holden Hills. 1t
Is sheet of crystal spring water. five
miles in length by about three in width
Its bottom is for the most part bed of
fine white sand, and shines up into the sun
light even through twenty feet of depth
so clearly that one is deluded into the be-
lief that the bottom is but a few feet be-
| meath him.
Green-capped hills rise on every side,
sometimes reaching straight up out of the
bosom of the lake, but in the intervales
| between these hills long smooth banks of
| snow-white sand roll up and look like
drifts of snow left there by winter. Hardly
weed or stick or speck of dirt hides the
bottom, and the desire which comes over
one to divest himself of garments and take
a tumble in the sparkling depths Is some
times uncomfortable.
| Up among the hills there are things to
be seen, to marvel at and admire. Here
on the north where the granite hill rises
boldly up from the shore for hundred
/ feet OF more, is deep cavern in the rocb