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SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAI^ MONUMENT. 



south, the scenery of the Maine coast is exceedingly interesting and 

 refreshing. The mere map of it is most attractive. From the Piscata- 

 qua River, a deep estuary whose swift tides flow through an archipelago 

 of rocks and lesser islands, to Cape Elizabeth, a broad wedge of rock 



Copyright by Dr. Robert Abbe. 



Mount Desert Island as seen from an aeroplane toward sundown. Photograph from 

 relief map made by Dr. Robert Abbe of New York. 



pushed out to sea as though to mark the entrance to Portland Harbor, 

 the coast is already rich in varied scenery ; but there another type, wilder, 

 more intricate and picturesque, begins. Casco Bay, with its many 

 branches running inland and its seaward-stretching peninsulas and 



