From Portland Me. to Cape Roqueaux Mo. Apr. 11 Clear with high wind varying from N.E. to S.W. After a comfortable night Huff woke to find the boat running by Mt. Desert. From here the course lay very near the shore giving us a good chance to see the glorious scenery. The coast line in every where indented by bays & inlets of greater or less depth and was somewhen extremely picturesque. The land adjoining the Coast is entirely unsettled in most places, the arborescent vegetation being confined almost entirely of Coniferse, principally Spruces. Some isolated rocks bow out of the water in the form of Crosses or pillars curiously truncated fluted by the action of the water. Machias Bay was soon after passed, and Mr. Taylor called my attention to Fishermans Island at the S. end of the bay while he said was a great place for duck. We passed Grand Menan at about 10 and arrived in Eastport at noon. It is a small place a fishing village built on a hill and reminding an Downshot of Nantucket. Here Merriam & Wilson left us. Among the wharves almost was a flock of some thirty large gulls about three quarters of them L. Aegantus the remainder about equally L. glaucus et L. lincolnius. Some of them latter were perfect beauties snow white and one or two came within good range. After three gulls followed the boat all the way from Mt Desert to Campa Bella is when they came at times very near us & I identified them