"I saw the very quite recent moon late yestreen Wi' the auld moon in her arms,"

and we kept an anxious lookout for the Maine hills that push soboldly down into the sea. At length we saw them,--faint, dawnyshadows in the horizon, looming up in an ashy color and with a mostpoetical light. We made out clearly Mt. Desert, and felt repaid forour journey by the sight of this famous island, even at such adistance. I pointed out the hills to the man at the wheel, and askedif we should go any nearer to Mt. Desert.