The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-08-12

made to pay; and there are others.
Chief among them is our beautiful sheet
of water known as Lake George. located
at the head of Georges river, and which
takes its name from its discoverer, Cap
tain George Weymouth, whose ships
laid at its mouth in 1905, in what is now
the town of St. George in Knox county.
No sheet of water on earth is purer than
that which nestles among the highlands
OF Haystack mountain, Coon mountain
and Bolan Hill. 1t is eleven miles in
circumference and in many places the
water is more than rs feet deep. 1t has
no visible inlet, but is fed wholly by
springs at its bottom. This is demonstrate
ed as in passing through it you come to
places where the water is ice cold. The
water is several degrees colder in the
summer time than that of any other
sheet of waterin the surrounding country.
On no part of its shores is there a bog or
piece of soft, marshy land. There are
no breeding places for mosquitoes, and the
water is so cold that that pest is rarely
found here. By reason of the cold water
the atmosphere above its surface is al
ways cool and delightful, which is notice
able the moment you enter upon the
water on hot day. Part of its shores
on the main land, and several Of the
beautiful islands, are covered with ever
green trees, and this cool air, laden with
the fragrance of the spruce, pine and
fir, makes it's life-giving properties
simply beyond compare. If you doubt
this, come and give it trial. 1t re-
moves "that tired feeling" at once. The
cares and troubles of busy life will roll
off from you like shot and shell off from
monitor Added to this it is a scene of
great beauty. Every person who has
visited here that has a mouth uses it in
its praise. Tourists passing along its
shores stop their automobiles and admire
the fine scenery, and always enquire
what lake it is. A party from Pennsyl-
vania passed through here recently on
| their way to Bar Harbor and stopped for
several hours to admire its beauties and
it's fresh air. One of them was heard to
eXclaim that he had Travelled the world
over and this was the most delightful
spot he had ever seen. Some OF the viii
| lagos and lakes in the mountains of
/ I'D he, TO
has been great wonder to us why more
people from Belfast, Rockland and Au-
gusta have not found out and visited this
place of fairy land. We now know that
it is for the reason that we are so far
awav, and there are places nearer their
homes that they think are beautiful be-
cause they have not seen this. We VEN
ture the opinion that if there was an
electric road from Belfast to Augusta
that this lake would be thronged with
visitors in the summer time
| have lived near this lake for nearly
forty years and every time l visit it
see new beauties. Last Sunday party
of us were the guests of Hon. l.. c.
Morse at his cottage on Green Island.
Late in the afternoon our neighbor
Frank Bennett took some of us for a
cruise around the lake, passing all the
islands and shores with cottages thereon,
and as we passed along the stretch from
Pamela Point past Beaulieu Park and
Nelson's l thought that the view surpas-
sed anything that l had ever seen, and
was seafaring man for sixteen years
and visited many lands, and according to
the natural course of events have seer
something. The foreground was the
placid waters of the lake; the back.
ground was Bolan Hill, extending W
into the clouds, with such blending Of
water, land and sky, with the setting sur
giving the clouds the tint of the rose
l thought that if Paradise was more love
ly than this, and that none but the gooe
can enter there, Ito use a nautica
phrase), shall begin at once to holy
stone my conscience to enable me tt
reach there, if possible.
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