This map represents only the southern part of the State of Maine; the
northern part is covered with extensive forests. For the whole shape of
the State, the pupils must refer to the Map of the United States; and
by comparing the two maps, they will easily comprehend what portion of
the State is here represented. This State has many lakes and rivers,
but some of them are not well suited to navigation.
1. How many counties are there in Maine?[2] 2. Which of them lie along
the shore of the Atlantic ocean? 3. Has Kennebeck county any sea-coast?
4. In what part is Oxford county? 5. Which is more eastwardly,
Penobscot or Somerset county? 6. What lake lies in Cumberland county?
7. What lakes in Oxford county? 8. In what part of Somerset county is
Moosehead lake? 9. Where is Sebec lake? 10. What creeks flow into it?
11. In what part of Maine are the Schodic lakes? 12. In what county
are they? 13. What river connects Madybemp lake and Cobscook bay? 14.
Into what county does Penobscot bay extend? 15. At the mouth of what
river is Passamaquoddy bay? 16. Which is more eastwardly, Machias or
Goldsboro’ bay? 17. In what county is Casco bay? 18. On what bay is
Nobleboro’? 19. Which way is New Meadow bay from Casco bay? 20. Where
is Frenchman’s bay? 21. English bay? 22. Into what does Mount Desert
sound extend? 23. Where is Belfast bay? 24. Which is further west,
Prospect harbour or Haycock harbour? 25. Where is Pleasant River bay?
26. What river flows between Maine and New Brunswick? 27. What are the
rivers of Washington county? 28. Which is the largest river in Maine?
29. Into what bay does it flow? 30. What rivers flow into it from
the west? 31. What from the east? 32. Through what counties does the
Kennebeck river flow? 33. With what lake, in Somerset county, does one
of its branches communicate? 34. Where is the Androscoggin river? 35.
Where does it rise? 36. What is its course? 37. What rivers in York
county? 38. Where is Marshall’s Island?
39. Which are the two largest of the numerous islands near the coast
of Maine? 40. Which of them is further east? 41. What islands lie east
from Passamaquoddy and Cobscook bays? 42. Which of them is furthest
north? 43. On which of them is Eastport situated? 44. What island lies
at the entrance of Machias bay? 45. Where is Manhegin island? 46. Boon
island? 47. Which is more eastwardly, Little Menan island or Bowbear
island? 48. Which is more northwardly, Seal rock, or Wooden Ball rock?
49. What is the longitude from Washington, of Mount Desert rock?
50. Where is Gerrish point? 51. Cape Neddock? 52. Which is more
eastwardly, Cape Small Point or Cape Elizabeth? 53. Which way from
Mount Desert rock is Sciodic point? 54. In what part of Maine is Quoddy
head? 55. At the entrance of what bay is Cow point?
56. Is Castine situated on an island or a peninsula? 57. Are there many
peninsulas on the coast of Maine? 58. What town in Cumberland county is
situated on an isthmus?
59. On what river is Augusta, the capital of Maine? 60. In what county
is it? 61. In what county is York? 62. Portland? 63. Wiscasset? 64.
Paris? 65. Norridgewock? 66. Bangor? 67. Castine? 68. Machias?
69. On what bay are Portland, North Yarmouth, and Freeport? 70. Near
the mouth of what rivers is Bath situated?
71. On what river is Prospect? 72. Name some of the towns on
Androscoggin river. 73. On Penobscot river. 74. Which way from Eastport
is Lubec?
75. Which way from Augusta is Hallowell? 76. Which way is Waterville?
77. In what county is it? 78. Which way from Kennebunk is Thomaston?
79. What town is near the junction of the east and west branches of
Pleasant river?
[Illustration: Part of MAINE
_Published by Robert S. Davis, Boston. G. Boynton Sc._]