Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-11-07
Names Public Playground.
MAPS ISSUED By GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
SHOW NEWLY CREATED sIEUR DE
MoNTs NATIONAL MONUMENT.

people of the nation generally will doubt
less be much interested in the maps,
just issued by the United States Geolog.
ical Survey, Department of the Interior,
Of areas in Maine known az the Mount
Desert and Bar Harbor qusdrangles, re-
vised to show the Sieur de Monts Nation
al Monument created upon Secretary
Lanes Recommendation by proclama-
ton of the president on July 8, 1915.
This monument includes more than
3, 900 acres on Mount Desert Island,
Maine, directly south of Bar Harbor.
In fact, it's northern boundary lies with.
In mile OF that famous resort. On the
east 1t touches the Schoonerhead Road.
On the south it approaches within q
mile of Seal Hsrbor. 1t lies less than a
mile northeast Of Northeast Harbor. 1t
Is surrounded. in short, by large sum-
mer population.
This superb area, for many years wide
~ celebrated for it's historical associa-
lions as we'll as it's commanding beauty,
includes four lakes and no less than ten
mountains. The lakes are Jordan Pond,
Eagle Lake, Bubble Pond, and Sargent
Mountain Pond. The Bowl lies just
outside the boundary line. The noun
tains are Green Mountain, Dry Noun
tain, Pickett Mountain, White Cap,
Newport Mountain, Pemetic Mountain,
The Tryad, Jordan Mountain, The
Bubbles, and Sargent Mountain.
The lands included in the Sieur de
Monts National Monument have never
formed part of the public domain.
Through the patriotism and generosity
of the owners, known collectively as the
Hancock County Trustees of Public
Reservations, they we're presented to the
United States for the benefit and enjoy
ment of the public. Mr.. George B. Dorr
executive OF the society MENTIONED, thus
beautifully describes the monument:
THE new reservation on the Maine
coast is singularly interesting. There ia
nothing like it elsewhere on the CONT
nent. A noble mass of ancient granite
that once bore up dominating Alpine
height on its broad shoulders has beer
laid bare by time Unreasonable and
carved into forms of bold and striking
beauty by recent ice-sheet grinding
This granite mass, surrounded broadly
by the ocean as the coast has sunk, con
stitutes with its ice;worn peaks and
gorges and intervening lakes the new ma
tional monument. The picturesque anC
broken lower lands that lie between II
and the sea and make the summer home
of men from the whole eastern country
over, form the island of Mount Desert
bearing still the name that Champlair
gave 1t three centuries ago, when ex
ploring under de Mont's orders be sailed
into the shadow of its great eastern cliff
and beacbed his open boat on the Bal
Harbor shore.
HE reached the island, drawn by the
beacon of its sharp.cut peaks against
the western sky, In a single, long days.
sail from what is now the boundary be
tween the United States and Canada
and he left it, guided by Indians whom
he found cooking their dinner In a cav
ern by the sea, to enter, as he describet
II, the mouth of the Penobscot River
which he ascended thence by island shell
tered waterways at first and the true
river afterwards, to the head of tida
water at Bangor. This tells we'll the
story of where the new national monu
ment lies. 1t is readily accessible; boat
or motor will take one there by pleasant
easy ways, and through trains run down
to Bar Harbor, at its northern base
from New York and Boston.
ut is unique and splendid landscape
revealing the ocean in It's majesty as nC
lesser or more distant height can do, and
ex hibiling wonderfully the interest and
beauty of the northern vegetation"
Copies of the Bar Harbor and Mount
| Desert topographjc maps NAV be obtain
ed from the Director, U. s. Geological
Survey, Washington, D. c., at 10 cents
each.