Difference between revisions of "Maine"
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== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_76464" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_76464" /> == | ||
<p> The most north-easterly State in the American Union, lies between [[Quebec]] and New Hampshire on the | <p> The most north-easterly State in the American Union, lies between [[Quebec]] and New Hampshire on the W. and New [[Brunswick]] and the Atlantic on the E., and is a little larger than Ireland, a picturesque State with high mountains in the W., Katahdin (5000 ft), many large lakes like Moosehead, numerous rivers, and a much indented rocky coast; the climate is severe but healthy, the soil only in some places fertile, the rainfall is abundant; dense forests cover the north; hay, potatoes, apples, and sweet corn are chief crops; cotton, woollen, leather manufactures, lumber working, and fruit canning are principal industries; the fisheries are valuable; timber, building stone, cattle, wool, and in winter ice are exported; early Dutch, English, and French settlements were unsuccessful till 1630; from 1651Maine was part of Massachusetts, till made a separate State in 1820; the population is English-Puritan and French-Canadian in origin; education is advancing; the State's [[Liquor]] Law of 1851 was among the first of the kind: the capital is Augusta; [[Portland]] is the largest city and chief seaport; Lewiston has cotton manufactures. </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:41, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n.) One of the New England States.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
The most north-easterly State in the American Union, lies between Quebec and New Hampshire on the W. and New Brunswick and the Atlantic on the E., and is a little larger than Ireland, a picturesque State with high mountains in the W., Katahdin (5000 ft), many large lakes like Moosehead, numerous rivers, and a much indented rocky coast; the climate is severe but healthy, the soil only in some places fertile, the rainfall is abundant; dense forests cover the north; hay, potatoes, apples, and sweet corn are chief crops; cotton, woollen, leather manufactures, lumber working, and fruit canning are principal industries; the fisheries are valuable; timber, building stone, cattle, wool, and in winter ice are exported; early Dutch, English, and French settlements were unsuccessful till 1630; from 1651Maine was part of Massachusetts, till made a separate State in 1820; the population is English-Puritan and French-Canadian in origin; education is advancing; the State's Liquor Law of 1851 was among the first of the kind: the capital is Augusta; Portland is the largest city and chief seaport; Lewiston has cotton manufactures.
