Glimpses of our national parks . The Lafajette National Park is not only a varied and beautifulexhibit of seacoast, mountain, and eastern forest—it is a monumentto the public spirit of New England. These mountains, surroundedby thriving seashore resorts, had been in private ownership for cen-turies. The day was fast approaching when they would be utilizedfor summer homes. Foreseeing this, George B. Dorr, of Bar Harbor,Me., determined to acquire them as a gift to the people of the UnitedStates. He created a holding organization, to which he and CharlesW. Eliot contributed their holdings, and se
Glimpses of our national parks . The Lafajette National Park is not only a varied and beautifulexhibit of seacoast, mountain, and eastern forest—it is a monumentto the public spirit of New England. These mountains, surroundedby thriving seashore resorts, had been in private ownership for cen-turies. The day was fast approaching when they would be utilizedfor summer homes. Foreseeing this, George B. Dorr, of Bar Harbor,Me., determined to acquire them as a gift to the people of the UnitedStates. He created a holding organization, to which he and CharlesW. Eliot contributed their holdings, and set about to persuade otherowners to do the same. It took a dozen years of ceaseless effort to collect 5,000 acres, muchof it by gift, some of it by purchase from funds collected from public-spirited persons. Then they presented it to the Nation, and it wasmade the Sieur cle Monts National Monument. This was in contributions poured in, and when Congress made it theLafayette National Park in 1919 its area had Copyright by Natioual Geographic Society Lafayettc National ParkWhere Champlain Mountain, the easternmost and boldest in the park, comes down to meet the sea OUE XATIOXAL PAEKS. 63 Compared with the huge bristling peaks of the Rockies and theSierra, the mountains of the Lafayette National Park are low they are no less beautiful, and they are characteristic of ourEast, as the Rocky Mountain and Sierran national parks are charac-teristic of our TTest. There are more than a dozen mountains in thegroup, which is cut into two parts by a fine fiord called Somes lakes lie in the hollows. Forests of coast pines, cedars,and deciduous trees of many kinds border the lakes and mount thegray sides of the mountains. Innumerable shrubs and floweringplants decorate the forest aisles. The region is a wilderness typicalof the noblest woodlands of the East. Chief of all is the mingling of mountain and sea. The waveslash their abrupt rock-bound
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