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Excerpt from The Hand-Book of Mount Desert, Coast of Maine: With All the Routes Thither, Descriptions of the Scenery and Topography, Sketches of the History
Vainly endeavoring to detect some per ceptible motion among the tall maples whose leaves had hung ever since morning as immovable as foliage cut in cold stone. But not a bough waved nor a leaf stirred, for the dog-days had set in, and a Canicula of unequalled intensity seemed fairly to weigh down the whole world. It was almost impossible to breathe, and the very grasshopper was a burden. Under the circumstances, the mind recurred to every conceivable refuge, and was tantalized by visions of far-off isles, sown like gems in the sea, where, as the bard of Scio imagined, the shrilly-breathing Zephyrus was ever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
