What to see in America . and more than seventy factories are engaged incanning lobsters, clams, and small herring. Lobsters arecaught in cage-like traps called lobster pots. Men and boysdig the clams on the mud flats at low tide. In Europe vari-ous little fishes have long been canned as sardines, and since1875 this industry has developed on the coast of herring used for the purpose are caught in weirs. Small steamers thread the channels among theislands and bring a mul-titude of visitors everyyear. The largest andmost beautiful of theislands is Mt. Desert,which is about fourteenmile
What to see in America . and more than seventy factories are engaged incanning lobsters, clams, and small herring. Lobsters arecaught in cage-like traps called lobster pots. Men and boysdig the clams on the mud flats at low tide. In Europe vari-ous little fishes have long been canned as sardines, and since1875 this industry has developed on the coast of herring used for the purpose are caught in weirs. Small steamers thread the channels among theislands and bring a mul-titude of visitors everyyear. The largest andmost beautiful of theislands is Mt. Desert,which is about fourteenmiles long and sevenbroad. There are thir-teen mountains on it,and an equal number oflakes nestle in the hol-lows and wild , the greatFrench explorer, discov-ered it in 1604. He ob-served that the summitsof its heights were all bare and rocky and therefore called it The Isle of Desert Mountains. The French started a settlement on Mt. Desert in 1613. But presently an armed English ship from Virginia appeared. Maine 9 and saluted them with a broadside of guns. The settle-ment was destroyed, and the Frenchmen were taken first white man to establish a permanent home on theisland was Abraham Somes of Gloucester. He came thitherin his fishing boat in 1761, and cut a load of barrel staves
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