Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Summer Days Down East
At the heads of the bays, and up along the great navigable rivers, are the most populous towns and cities of the State, about which dwells the chief part of the six hundred thousand citizens of Maine. In the outer bays are scores of obscure little ports, each with its coasting and fishing ?eet of a few schooners, and respectfully regarding some adja cent ship-building town, where once the deep Indiamen sailed in and out, through waters that are now vexed only by an occasional steam boat. Since the combined malevolence and stupidity of Richmond, Liverpool, and Washington destroyed American commerce, a great peace has settled over these little maritime republics, which have be come, in their way, impregnated with something of the air Of romance and remembrance which dwells about Amalfi, Salerno, and other decadent ports of the Old World.
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