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See also:MOUNT See also:DESERT , an See also:island in See also:Hancock See also:county, See also:Maine, U.S.A. It is about 16 m. See also:long and 10 m. wide in its widest See also:part, with an approximate See also:area of zoo sq. m. and a See also:population (1910) of 8014. The Maine Central railroad runs a See also:ferry from its nearest station on the mainland (Mount Desert Ferry), and the island is also accessible during the warmer months by steamship lines from New See also:York, See also:Boston, See also:Portland, and several other ports. On the See also:north across Mount Desert Narrows, a See also:bridge connects the island with the mainland. See also:Eagle See also:Lake, at the north-See also:east See also:base of See also:Green See also:Mountain, is a beautiful See also:sheet of See also:water about 21 M. long, and 1 m. wide, and See also:Great See also:Pond, 4 M. long, lies near Somesville between See also:Beech See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill and Western Mountain. There are numerousoutlying rocky islets. The See also:surface of Mount Desert is generally so rocky that the greater part of it has never been inhabited or cultivated, but wherever there is a thin See also:soil the hills are wooded with spruce, See also:alder, See also:birch, See also:maple and mountain ash. The hilly scenery, the cool summer See also:climate, and the facilities for boating and fishing attract many thousands of visitors each summer, and the See also:maintenance of the permanent population is derived very largely from the summer residents. The See also:Penobscot and See also:Passamaquoddy See also:Indians come here in the See also:season to sell their See also:basket-See also:work, See also:toy canoes, moccasins, bows and arrows, &c. The villages most frequented by summer visitors are See also:Bar Harbor (q.v.) on the north-east See also:coast; Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor and See also:Seal Harbor on the See also:south coast; and Somesville, at the See also:head of Somes See also:Sound. Along the western See also:shore are several See also:quaint old hamlets.
Mount Desert'Island was discovered and named by See also:Samuel de See also:Champlain on the 5th of See also:September 1604. See also:French See also:Jesuits established a See also:settlement, St Sauveur, at the entrance to Somes Sound in 1609, but this was destroyed four years later by Samuel Argall. In 1688 the island was granted by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. to Sieur de la Mothe See also:Cadillac, but no permanent settlement was established until 1762, when the See also:general See also:court of See also:Massachusetts granted one-See also:half of the island to See also:Governor See also:Francis See also:Bernard and under his encouragement a settlement was begun at Southwest Harbor. During the See also:War of See also:Independence all the See also:American estates of Bernard were confiscated, but in 1785 his former See also:interest in Mount Desert was conveyed to his son, See also:John, and two years later heirs of Cadillac, among them his granddaughter, Mme de See also:Gregoire, who had come to Maine in 1786, received from the general court a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant for the remaining portion. Until the summer visitors came, the settlers gained only a scanty livelihood, chiefly by fishing, lumbering, See also:boat See also:building and farming. Practically all of them lived along the shore; they had boats, but few horses, and the roads were only rough trails. There is no See also:record of any See also:mail service until 182o, and as See also:late as 187o the only means of reaching the island was by See also:stage from See also:Bangor or by steamboat twice a See also:week from Portland.
See See also:George E. See also:Street, Mount Desert, a See also:History (Boston, 1905).
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