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A New Drive Opened Up’ Between Bar Harbor and Seal Harbor. Those who seek enjoyment by driving may be interested to know that the new drive through the Glengariff property is now so far advanced that the owners have decided to permit the public to use it for the rest of the season on and after today at 2 p.m. As, however, the road is still very narrow in some parts car riages will only be allowed to travel from east to west. ‘This drive enters the woods at a point on the county road leading to Seal Har bor about three-quarters of a mile to the westward of the village of Otter Creek, passing over a boulder moraine, from which this entrance has been given the name of the Boulder Gate.” Thus run ning in a southwesterly direction It sweeps by easy grade and curves through a beautiful birch wood until it reaches the cliffa, at a point where the view is mainly an extended stretch of ocean, flanked by the bold promontory ‘‘Hun ter's Beach Head,’ but with a partial view of the low-lying islands, which are the leading characteristic of the off shore scenery of his side of the island. Re entering the woods, it again emerges upon the cliffs where they have been rent by a narrow gorge, long known to the Inhabitants as “Raven's Nest, but now called ‘Raven's Cleft.” Here the drive is pushed out to the ex treme verge of the precipice, and sweep ing westerly around the face of the upper and unbroken cliff, continues al most on the edge of the cliffs on a natural parapet, until, after ascending an easy hill, there bursts suddenly upon the sight the wearern view of island, sea annd open shore line, with the hills trending northwards to lose themselves in the mountains. This view, ‘'West ward Ho, is at the crest of the drive. From there on, its course runs North erly through a natural gorge, the ‘Golden Gate, whilst rising in the distance is the peak of Sargent mountain, the fitting climax of a view which opened first upon the wide expanse of the sea. The un opened portion of the drive will be built Northward along the ‘Harbor Cliffe.’ The total length of this drive is a mile and a half, and the characteristics which will largely interest visitors are that it may be travelled from end to end by a bicyclist without fatigue, as the maxi m grade for almost the entire distance is five per cent; also that it gives easy access to the cliffs on this side of the island. We understand that this drive is only one section of a continuous drive of about sixteen miles projected to encircle Bar Marbor and Seal Harbor, passing through the notch between Dry Mountain and Newport, through the village of Otter Creek, and as far as possible fol lowing the shore of Otter Creek and the south coast until it reaches Seal Harbor, whence it will trend northward, and, turning its back upon the sea, will open up the mountain scenery of the south side of the island. Clinging to the West ern shore or Jordan Pond and Eagle Lake, it will reach at Harbor again by 4 course throughout its entire distance selected with reference to the beauty and variety of its scenery and with reference turn vase of grade which will permit the average bicyclist to accomplish the journey, without difficulty, in an hour and a half to two hours. ‘The execution of this work will de pend for its accomplishment upon an en lightened public spirit which will recog nize from the outset the Interdependence of the north and the south sides of the island. We have heard enough of Mr. Cooksey’s pling to understand — that whilst he expects to appeal to that public spirit, yet he also intends to show those who are willing to jat hands with him in the undertaking, that in doing 80 they are consulting their normal self interest. He makes no pretense himself of being actuated solely by any other motive. We asure our readers that they will be Well repild by driving on this new road by suddenly added to the number of the attractions on this island. One word more before we close. Whilst the Hue on the road was selected by Mr. Cooksey after careful study and under the advice of Mr. James I. Gar diner, the well known engineer,and with the help of Mr. Alanson E- Clement, the practical road builder and a native of the south side of the island, yet the hard work, the muscle and the physical energy which have made possible the execution of the design within the short term of seven weeks have belonged to the native Anglo saxon, the son of many generations of a hardy race pure in type but isolated by force of circumstances from the rest of the nation. It is a striking fact that at onet and the same time, and without any knowledge of each other, Captain Hank’ Haff should have sought an Anglo Saxon crew on the cradle of the nation with which to man the Defender and mdat their cousing of a ke race In friendly strife, ,and that Mr. Cooksey’ who is an Englishman by birth, an American, by adoption, should ‘have picked his crew for the prompt execution of a fat purpose, from that same race to which this nation owes its birth and ite early progress. It is ‘pai Just, ‘however, to tate that to this.
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Bar Harbor Record
Bar Harbor, Maine, US
Wed, Aug 07, 1895
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