The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-21
IN AND ABOUT BOOTHBAY.
An Etching Of the Harbor and It's
Shores.

Occasional Correspondent OF THE NEWS.
WANNAMoIsETT LODGE, Linekin, Me-,
August IS, 1896.
Out on the ocean sailing at 1890 a. m.
Just now we ars on voyage homeward
from sightseeing trip. We crossed the
beautiful bay In our sail boat, a party OF
six, to take the "Lovers Walk" an "old
maids path" the doctor calls IL, for 1t
is so full of surface roots that one has to
mind his p's and q'sor he will be easily
tripped, certainly an uncomfortable sem
sation for those who would be "cheeK to
cheek, mouth to mouth, sucking cider
the self-same DOCTORS description of low
er's bliss.
The goal Is at the end of the sold
maids path" far up a flight of rough
stone steps, connected here and there
with short flights of steps, skeleton
tower some 30 feet high, from the top of
which one has beautiful view OF scenery
surprising description that will in any
true sense convey what one sees, so far
as his inward emotion is affected. Briefly.
there lies before US. and around us, for
Gus tower is really in the center of our
scene, what might properly be called a
double bay. The Kennebec river is far
to the eastward. Sheepscot river runs
parallel to it and ArowsIc island lies be-
tween. The island of Southport is this
side, east OF the Sheepscot, and then
comes Boothbay Harbor, a beautiful sheet
OF water dotted with many islands, which
are really masses OF rock rising abruptly
from the bay. and at their highest points
reach an elevation of from rs feet to 800
or 400 feet, usually covered with frs and
spruces- the dark green leaves OF which
give them great prominence in the
view. Near at hand is Mouse Island,
q midway stopping place for the little
steamers that ply between Boothbay Har-
Dor and Ocean Point; next to the south
is Squirrel Island, the Newport of this
section, and between the two Is Capitol
Island, toward which our boat is
pointed. All OF these are more or less
covered with small hotels and cottages,
where summer visitors from the not
cities "m ,st do -congregate.o Burnt
Island with its Lighthouse stands alone
IN its barrenness, between Capitol and
Mouse Islands. The air is wonderfully
clear this morning, no haze obstructs
the distant view and Mount Washington
and its companions Of the presidential
range is clearly distant as a blue outline
IN IA Cd i'm et
from the tower upon which we were
standing is not less picturesque. than the
westerly view. This shows on Linekin
Bay, the shore hills of which are dotted
with several villages'of a dozen or more
houses each, the dense fir and spruce
forests separating them, so that it appears
as II the only means Of communication
must be by boat.
The shores Of the bay are all rocky
ciiffs, and like the islands with which
the bay Is dotted are parts Of one vast
ledge that forms the entire south part
OF Maine. Cabbage Island lies half way
between us and our beautiful Wannam-
are the dangerous rocks of Holbrook's 8
Lodge over which at low tide schools of
seals play leap frog and bark and grunt,
and bark just enough to make a night
seem weird. To the south is Ocean
Point, the terminus of the peninsular
upon which is Linekiu's Mock, which
sits upon side hill ledge, our summer
resort and of the point is Nego Island,
black with its dense growth Of frs. All
this from the top OF our tower and
written while we have been sailing
among the ISLANDS in these beautiful
bays.