Show MAINES playground president wilson on july 8 set apart a large tract of land as a national park this park embraces that region fori formally nally known as mt desert Duser tand and ba bay harbor this beautiful eDu country for many years widely celebrated for its hist historical orcal associations as well as its commanding beauty includes four lakes and n no 0 less than ten mountains the lakes are jordan pond eagle lake bubble pond the new reservation on the maine coast is singularly interesting there nothing is like it elsewhere on the continent A noble mass of ancient granite that once bore up a dominating alpine height on its broad should ers has been laid bare by the hand of time and carved into forms of bold and striking beauty by recent lee ice sheet grinding this granite mass surrounded broadly by the ocean as the coast ha has su sunk constitutes with its lee ice worn peaks and gorges and intervening ter lakes the national monument the picturesque and broken lower lands that lie between it and the sea and make the summer home of men the who whole I 1 e eastern country over from the island of mt desert bearing still the name that chaplain gave it three centuries ago when he sailed inco the shadow shadon of its great eastern cliff and beached his open boat on the bar harbor shore he reached the island drawn by the beacon of bf its sharp cut peaks against the western sky in a single long days sail from what is now the boundary between the united states and canada and he left it guided by indians who he found cooking their dinner in a cavern by the sea to enter as he describes it mouth of the penobscot river which he ascended thence by island sheltered waterways at first and th true river afterwards to the head of tide wa water ter at bangor |