CHAPTER III

CHRISTMAS ON MOUNT DESERT.

Excursion to Bar Harbor.--Green Mountain.--Eagle Lake.--Island Nomenclature.--Porcupine Islands.--Short Jaunts by the Shore.--Schooner Head.--Spouting Caves.--Sea Aquaria.--Audubon and Agassiz.--David Wasgatt Clark.--F. E. Church and the Artists.--Great Head.--Baye Françoise.--Mount Desert Rock.--Value of natural Sea-marks.--Newport Mountain, and the Way to Otter Creek.--The Islesmen.--North-east Harbor.--The Ovens.--The Gregoires.--Henrietta d'Orleans.--Yankee Curiosity 40