. Le località costiere del Maine orientale, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island e Cape Breton . distrusse la stagione precedente. Bei cottage adornano anche Cushings, che è la più esclusiva delle isole Cascos. Subito dopo aver arrotondato il punto di questa isola la città burstsupon la vista dalla sua posizione dominante sulla penisola altitridila chilometri di distanza. La vista dal mare nell'approccio alla città è incomparabile, ed è, infatti, l'unico punto di vista che mostra Portland a vantaggio.il momento di arrivo a questo punto è più opportuno per vista-vedere.il sole,

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. The sea coast resorts of eastern Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton . edestroyed the previous season. Beautiful cottages also adorn Cushings, which is the most exclusive of Cascos isles. Immediately after rounding the point of this island the city burstsupon the view from its commanding position upon the peninsula heightsthree miles distant. The view from seaward in the approach to the city is incomparable, and is, indeed, the only point of view which shows Portland to advantage.The time of arrival at this point is most opportune for sight-seeing.The sun, yet well up in the heavens directly above the city, behindwhose roofs and spires it sinks into the west with most charming cloudeffects of ever-varying hue. The harbor scene is most attractive, for the mammoth steamer is nowin the path of the many excursion boats plying between the city and itscottage-covered suburban islands. Among them our ship seems colossal, and we are, for the passing moment, the centre of attraction to the gaygroups who throng the decks of the smaller craft, which now are dancing fi. SEA COAST XESORTS. 15 in the huge swell of our wake. Thousands visit The Islands daily, a fleet of ten boats making constant trips; cottages and club-houses, innumerable almost, shelter the summer population, while the white tentsof campers are anchored in every available spot. Steam and sailing craft of every style are met or passed in the ascentof the harbor — a harbor which bears this distinction — let us turn fromdescriptive to incident, and relate it. This busy harbor formed the theatre of action for the only invasion ofa northern port by the enemy during the war of the rebellion; when therevenue cutter Caleb Cushing was cut out from under the guns of thenow obsolete fort upon the right, by an armed force, who, at midnight —1863 — overpowered her crew and succeeded in getting away with thecraft, an armed sailing schooner of modest size. No doubt the Cushing would ha

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