![]() Behind the blue ridge, the high ground extends for sixty miles, as far as the frontier with Canada. Here the influence of the ocean ends, and the American interior begins. Above the modern town of Farmington, they form the outlying ramparts of a dark massif. ![]() They reach their finest color on a winter’s day, when the air is sharp and cold and the sunlight turns their eastern slopes from gray to blue. ![]() Built of slate, they rise to more than three thousand feet. Seventy miles from the Atlantic, in the central lowlands of Maine, if you head west along Route 2 and cross the Sandy River you will see a line of mountains far away upon your right. AN ENGLISH SETTLER ON THE COAST OF MAINE, JUNE 1634 1 The planters heare aboutes, if they will have any beaver, must go 40 or 50 myles into the country, with their packes on their backes. ![]() Cook, Above the Gravel Bar (3rd edition, 2007). Rivers: from Gulf of Maine Watershed Map, Maine State Planning Office, 1991. ![]()
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