word in its true, popular sense — bordering on the sea; 

 and it must remain always supreme in landscape interest and 

 refreshing quality upon our eastern coast. Beautiful as it is 

 in other ways, this is its unique possession, that it is the only 

 tract of national park land in the country offering to its visitors 

 the refreshment, the ever- varying interest and beauty and the 

 limitless expanses of the ocean — in contrast to the magnifi- 

 cent domains of mountain lands, western or eastern, that its 

 companion parks may offer. 



Because of this and the great human value of the tract as 

 a recreational area, guarded in beauty and made free to all, 

 it is felt that its name should be made indicative of its charac- 

 ter and tell more plainly what it offers. To this end a bill, 

 approved by the National Park Service, is being introduced 

 in Congress by Senator Hale of Portland, Maine, familiar 

 from boyhood with the beauty and resort importance of the 

 region, asking that the name be changed from the Sieur de 

 Monts National Monument to the Sieur de Monts National 

 Park. A similar change is already planned in a conspicuous 

 instance in the West, that of the Grand Canyon, a true park 

 area in every popular sense, but technically termed till now a 

 National Monument since created, like the Sieur de Monts, 

 by act of the Administration. 



Physically, the Sieur de Monts National Monument is a 

 bold range of seaward-facing granite hills, extraordinarily 

 mountainous in character and wonderful in the variety, the 

 interest and beauty of the climbs they offer. One only, but 

 the highest, rising from the border of the ocean over fifteen 

 hundred feet, offers opportunity for road construction. When, 

 sooner or later, such a road — one by no means difficult to 

 build — shall be constructed, restoring along a better route 

 the old buckboard road which formerly led up to a hotel upon 

 the summit, it will become at once, with modern motor travel, 

 one of the great scenic features of the continent. As one 

 ascends, superb views of land diversified by lakes and bays 

 and stretching far away to distant hills, disclose themselves 

 successively, and when one reaches the summit, the mag- 



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