Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited

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Text Appearing Before Image: d the scenes of his 358 New England youth, and many of his best poems were written in it.He was born in 1807 in a three-story frame house inthe easterly part of the town near the harbor. Longfellow graduated at Bowdoin College, in themanufacturing city of Brunswick, and was for some years a Bowdoin pro-fessor. Hawthornewas another famousBowdoin collegian. Harriet BeecherStowe was living atBrunswick when shewrote Uncle TomsCabin. Her husbandwas at that time aninstructor in the col-lege. She did thewriting amid heavydomestic responsibili-ties, with untrainedservants to oversee, ababy to take care of, and several pupils in the familyto whom she gave daily lessons with her own children.The sale of the book was enormous from the very first,and it has been translated into at least nineteen foreignlanguages. The story was dramatized, and probablyno other play has been produced so many times. Bath is the ship-building city of Maine. It has adeep, safe harbor, and can conveniently receive coal

Text Appearing After Image: Henry W. Longfellow Maine Places, Industries, and People 359 and iron by sea, and lumber from the Androscogginand Kennebec rivers. The vessels that are launchedfrom the Bath shipyards vary greatly in size and kind.They are both wooden and steel, and include barges,schooners, steamers, and even warships, Bangor on the Penobscot is the most notable lumbercentre in New England. It gets water power fromfalls, logs can be floated to it direct from the forests,and the river below is navigable for ocean-going ves-sels, so that the lumber can be sent away to advantage.

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