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YOUNG BALD EAGLES NESTING IN ACADIA NATIONAL PARK
DEEPLY trenched by glacial erosion dividing it into separate peaks, the park's highest summit, Cadillac Mountain, rises as a solid block of granite to a broad-topped elevation over fifteen hundred feet above the ocean level and descends, surf swept, beneath it. To this summit, from which one looks out over a vast expanse of ocean, the Government is building a road which for sheer beauty of outlook will have few equals. The other peaks of the range will be reserved for walkers.
From far out at sea, and east and west along the coast, these bold rock masses dominate the landscape. Eastward the sun rises from the Bay of Fundy, the "Deep Bay." Westward it sinks behind the distant Camden Hills over the archipelago with its mingled lands and waters.
The age-old beauty of the granite peaks and landlocked waters is but a part of Acadia's charm. Great forests of coast pines, cedars, and deciduous trees of many kinds border the lakes and climb the gray sides of the mountains. Innumerable shrubs and flowering plants abound. It is a woodland typical of the noblest woodlands of the East.
Around it all is the glamour of historic associations. Once home of the stone-age Indians, it was the first land within the United States reached by Champlain. Its very name, Acadia, comes from a word of native origin and was used upon their return to Europe by early fishermen and traders who visited the area even before recorded French and English explorations.
BOATING ON THE PLACID WATERS OF VALLEY COVE
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