Excerpt from Summer Days Down East
Almost half of the domain of fair New England is occupied by the twenty million acres of the State of Maine, a vast irregular territory fronting the sea on one side, and on the other running northward almost to the St. Lawrence River, in a sharp wedge which cuts deep into Canada. It covers about the same area as Scotland, or Ireland, or the Low Countries, or South Carolina, or Indiana; and is one-eighth the size of Texas, one-eighteenth the size of Alaska. The sea-coast extends from Kittery Point to Quoddy Head, a distance of two hundred and seventy-eight miles in a straight line; but exceeding twenty-five hundred miles when the wonderful net-work of bays, fiords, and inlets is taken into consideration. Unlike the greater part of the Atlantic seaboard, bordered by straight lines of level and monotonous sandy beaches, half insulated by still lagoons, the coast of Maine resembles a vast fringe, made up of hundreds of long promontories and capes, thrusting their rocks and hills down through and around the deep blue inlets, and interlacing each other in every direction. At many points the powerful tides, ranging from twelve to eighteen feet and attaining phenomenal height a little farther eastward, in the Bay of Fundy, have frayed out the outer fringe of headlands, leaving its fragments in the form of countless islands and islets off the coast or embayed between protecting capes.
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