Identifier: downeastlatchstr87inge (find matches)
Title: Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946 Boston and Maine Railroad
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Publisher: (Boston) Passenger dept., Boston & Maine railroad
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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its environs andharbor full of little islets, twenty in number. On the north are thenavy yard, Kittery Foreside, and Mount Agamenticus, the throne ofthe great sagamore, Passaconoway, known in legend as St. Aspen-quid. On the n(trtheast you look down on the mouth of the gayPiscataqua, and the compact village of Newcastle on its south bankflanked by Fort Constitution and the antique Walbach martello tower,said to have been built in one night in anticipation of an Englishinvasion. On the other side of the river are Kittery point, the home of SirWilliam Pepperell, Gerrishs island (which contains the cairn ofthe royal Champeruowne), and the long broken coast of Maine. Eastis the Atlantic ocean and the Isles of Shoals, six miles distant.Looking southeast you see Ipswich bay, enclosed by the long, slenderarm of Cape Ann. In the bend of Ipswich bay are the Kye andHampton beaches, six and ten miles distant. Coming nearer areOdiornes and Frosts points. Between the hotel and these two points 236
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237 is Little harbor, forming an inland lake suited to fishing, boating, andbathing. On the southwest and west is a wooded country, throughwhich runs the beautiful Sagamore creek, emptying into Little harbordirectly opposite the hotel. On the shores of this creek are manypicturesque old houses, among them the noted Martine mansion, theLear Hermitage, and at its mouth the famous Wentworth house. On Kittery point stands the queer old Fort McClary, a nondescriptstructure, half wood, half stone, and many-angled; something be-tween a block house and a Martello tower. A little distance eastwardof it is the mansion of Sir William Pepperell, and his tomb. SirWilliam was a trader and the son of a trader; a militia colonel, rich,prosperous, a man of probity and sagacity, and the central humanfigure in these parts, in the first half of the 18th century. In theFrench war of 1745, he was selected, in spite of the fact that thegovernor of the province, the doughty old Benning Wentworth,might have g

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