The Ovens at Salisbury Cove, (14577013127)

Identifier: picturesqueameri01brya (find matches)
Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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, lying on the seaward shores of the island.It will fall more duly in order to proceed first to The Ovens, which may be reached byboat or by a pleasant drive of seven or eight miles. With a one-armed veteran for an escort, Mr. Fenn and the writer set forth for ascene where we were promised many charming characteristics for pen and pencil. It wasnecessary to time our visit to The Ovens—the nomenclature of Mount Desert is pain-fully out of harmony with the scenes it verbally libels—so as to reach the beach at lowtide. The cliffs can be approached only by boat at high tide, and the picture at thisjuncture loses some of its pleasing features. The Mount-Desert roads for the most part are in good condition, and have many at-tractions. The forests are crowded with evergreens, and the firs and the spruce-trees mar-shal in such array on the hill-sides that, with their slender, spear-like tops, they look Hkearmies of lancers. The landscape borrows from these evergreens an Alpine tone, which
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THE CLIFFS NEAR THE OVENS. 6 . PICTURESQUE AMERICA. groups of pedestrians for the mountains, armed with alpenstocks, notably enhance. Thefir, spruce, pine, and arbor-vitae, attain splendid proportions; the slender larch is in placesalso abundant, and a few sturdy hemlocks now and then vary the picture. The forest-scenes are, many of them, of singular beauty, and in our long drives about the islandwe discovered many a strongly-marked forest-group. At one point on our drive to The Ovens, the road, as it ascends a hill near Sauls-bury Cove, commands a fine, distant view of the mountains, which Mr. Fenn rapidlysketched. Clouds of fog were drifting along their tops, now obscuring and now reveal-ing them, and adding often a vagueness and mystery to their forms which lent them anadditional charm. The cliffs at The Ovens contrast happily with the rocks on the sea-front of theisland in possessing a delicious quiet and repose. The waters ripple calmly at their feet,and only when winds are high