Maine

Maine is the most north-easterly State in the American Union, the United States of America. It lies between Quebec and New Hampshire on the West and New Brunswick and the Atlantic on the East, and is a little larger than Ireland, a picturesque State with high mountains in the West, 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 1651, Maine 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. Its capital city is Augusta. Portland is another important city and chief seaport. Lewiston has been known for cotton manufactures.

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