THE MOUNT DESERT REGION 



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Sable Island." "A study of the temperature will show that 

 there are no extremes of heat or cold on the island; that the 

 highest temperature during the past four years was 78° and 

 the lowest point reached by the thermometer during the same 

 period was 5° above zero." 



View on Great Heath 



View on Great Heath 



I am prompted to quote the paragraph above for the reason 

 that the island has a great number of wet depressions found 

 where glacial action has been the dominating formative agent. 



^ " Sable Island with a caLalogue of its vascular plants,' 

 Proc. Boston Soe. Nat. Hist., vol. 36, p. 52, 1921. 



by Harold St. John, 



