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Guide To Bar Harbor, Maine, W. H. Sherman

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For him who chooses to regard the trip to Bar Harbor as a "trip to the country" for rest and mild recreation, rather than as an opportunity to continue the social dissipation of the winter throughout the summer, we can open up a vast field for enjoyment. For him the summer days at Bar Harbor will be one uninterrupted round of health-giving pleasure and exercise, with nights of cool repose for which the enforced dweller in the city would almost barter his soul's salvation.

There are the lakes, in all their virgin purity, smiling as sweetly in the sunlight as …