Excerpt from Here's New England: A Guide to Vacationland
Within small compass, New England ofiers extraordinary diversity of landscape. The glacier sheets have left their traces everywhere: hum mocks, knobs, and depressions, scattered about irregularly Without clear hill and valley lines. A Yankee can hardly grow out of Sight of the hills; sometimes the mountains actually reach to the edge of salt water. Along most of the coastline the sea has eaten its way into a land of diminutive valleys and stony hillocks. Behind the outer headlands lie miles of forest-lined reaches. A coast where land and sea meet in compromise rather than in challenge, for few sectors outside of Maine can truly be called 'stern and rockbound'; more common is the undulating line of sand dunes that wind along the ocean's edge.
In this Guide to the great playground of New England we have made most of the subdivisions somewhat arbitrarily. Although they have no boundaries and no fixed lines of demarcation they do possess a distinct character of their own. We would no more presume to set their exact limits than revive a controversy about the landing-party at Plymouth Rock.
The opening paragraphs of each of these sketches strive to communi cate something of the genius of the place, its pulse and personality. After this dip into 'atmosphere' we move across each area in accordance with a simple plan that enables you to take in as many sights as possible. The various sections have been joined together to form a circular tour of New England. It was easy enough to lead you along the Whole length of the coastline from New York to Bar Harbor, across the Maine woodlands into the White Mountains and through the New Hampshire lakes. From there on, we had to become somewhat more circuitous: up and down the Connecticut Valley, through the Green Mountains, the northeastern lakes of Vermont, across to the Champlain Valley, and then through to New York by way of Berkshire and Connecticut's western highlands. Under each heading we have indicated a few alternate routes into the heart of the recreational area, so that you're by no means bound to our tour.
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