THE COASTAL SETTING, ROCKS, AND WOODS OF THE 

 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAL MONUMENT. 



INTRODUCTION. 



By George B. Dorr. 



The following description of the Maine coast and appeal for the pres- 

 ervation of its beauty and freedom to the public in appropriate tracts 

 was written — in somewhat ampler form — nearly 30 years ago by Charles 

 Eliot, the landscape architect, who drew from his summers at the island, 

 the home influences that surrounded him, and the bent of his own mind 

 a love of nature and a will for public service that enabled him to leave 

 behind him, when his day closed suddenly in the fullness of his early man- 

 hood, an enduring monument in important public work initiated and in 

 ideas that other men could make their own and build into their work in 

 turn. What he then said can not be better said today; the importance 

 of action which he foresaw so clearly and felt so strongly has only become 

 more evident and more urgent with each passing year. 



THE COAST OF MAINE. 



By Charles Euot. 



T^ROM Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, the broad 

 entrance of the Gulf of Maine is 200 miles wide, and it is 100 miles 

 across from each of these capes to the corresponding end of the Maine 

 coast at Kittery and Ouoddy. Thus, Maine squarely faces the gulf's wide 

 seaward opening, while to the east and west, beyond her bounds, stretch 

 its two great offshoots, the Bays of Fundy and of Massachusetts. The 

 latter and lesser bay presents a south shore, built mostly of sands and 

 gravels, in bluffs and beaches, and a north shore of bold and enduring 

 rocks — both already overgrown with seaside hotels and cottages. The 

 Bay of Fundy, on the other hand, is little resorted to as yet for pleasure; 

 its shores in many parts are grandly high and bold, but its waters are 

 moved by such rushing tides and its coasts are so frequently wrapped in fog 

 that it will doubtless long remain a comparatively unfrequented region. 



Along the coast of Maine scenery and climate change from the Massa- 

 chusetts to the Fundy type. At Boston the average temperature of 

 July is 70°; at Bastport it is 61°. No such coolness is to be found along 

 the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod southward, and this summer freshness 

 of the air must always be an irresistible attraction to many thousand 

 dwellers in hot cities. Again, in contrast with the low beaches farther 



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