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MYSTERIOUS RUSSIAN VISITORS

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1855
MYSTERIOUS RUSSIAN VISITORS
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Vd Ls On née ne al on ii up. No 1183Vorn XLVI Our CORRESPONDENTS VIEWS OF THE RusstAN VISITORS Souruwest Harzor ME May 16rn 1878 Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper N the landlocked waters of Southwest Harbor lies the now muchly talked of Cimbria A more adroit selection for a quiet berth could scarcely have been made and when we came to take a glance at the trim and tautlooking vessel we felt in clined to wonder as with the fly in amber how the deuce she got there Southwest Harbor is about twentythree miles from Ellsworth Maine. To reach it recalls those tortuous times when our forefathers ventured forth at rare intervals their wills made their flasks full and their powder dry. The journey from New York to Boston and from thence to Bangor savors of the nineteenth century but from Bangor to Ellsworth and from Ellsworth to South west Harbor speaks loudly of the eight eenth.

The leathern conveniency into which we were stowed its yellow panels its black leather blinds its cumbrous wheels its uncompromising seats and its general creakiness bespoke that time when some lady of the court of Dame Martha Washington migrated from one portion of.

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