The Coastal setting, rocks and woods of the Sieur de Monts National Monument (1917) (20035380144)

Title: The Coastal setting, rocks and woods of the Sieur de Monts National Monument
Identifier: coastalsettingro00unit (find matches)
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: United States. National Park Service
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Publisher: Washington : Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service : G. P. O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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6 SIEUR DE MONTS NATlONAIv MONUMENT. less attempts at settlement followed, led by French knights at St. Croix, French Jesuits at Mount Desert, and English cavaliers at Sagadahock; all of them years in advance of the EngUsh Colony at New Plymouth. Then followed a long period of fishing and fur trading, during which Maine belonged to neither New France nor New England. Rival French- men fought and besieged each other in truly feudal fashion at Penobscot and St. John. The numerous French names on the eastern coast bear witness still to the long French occupation there; as, for instance, Grand and Petit Manan, Bois Bubert, Monts Deserts and Isle au Hault, and Burnt Coat—English apparently, but really a mistranslation of the French, Cote Brule. No Englishmen settled east of the Penobscot until after the capture of Quebec; when they did, more fighting followed in the wars of the Revo- lution and of 1812. The settlers fished and hunted, cut hay on the salt
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Copyright by National Geographic Society. The top of Newport Mountain under whose shadow at the close of day Champlain must have sailed when he first reached the island. marshes, and timber in the great woods; then, in later times, took to ship- building. These, the occupations of a wild and timbered coast, still form its business in great part. The fisheries are an abiding resource and fleets of more than two hundred graceful vessels may be often seen in port together, waiting the end of a storm. Hunting is carried on at certain seasons in the eastern counties, where deer are numerous, and innumerable inland lakes and streams are full of trout. The large pines and spruces of the shore woods have long since been cut, but Bangor still sends down the Penobscot a fleet of lumber schooners, loaded from the interior, every time the wind blows from the north. It was in the early sixties that what may be called the discovery of the picturesqueness, the wild beauty and refreshing character of the Maine coast took place. Then, through the resort to it of a few well-known landscape painters, the poor hamlet of Bar Harbor leaped into sudden fame and it became evident that the whole coast had an important