Text Appearing Before Image: 8 SIEUR DE MONTS NATIONAI^ MONUMENT. The lowland from which the mountainous hills of Maine rise up is not, like the coastal lowlands to the southward of Cape Cod, a recently emerged sea bottom, still for the most part as smooth as when the ocean Text Appearing After Image: Copyright by National Geographic Society. Rock formed by coastal deposit in an ancient ocean at a period antedating any present trace of life on land. The strata formed by seasonal rains are still plainly to be seen in the foreground; the cliff beyond, of more resistant character, has been molten, compressed, and hardened by volcanic agencies. covered it. It is low in spite of having been strongly uplifted long ago; it is low because the ancient alpine heights that occupied it once have been worn down by age-long denudation and have slowly wasted away under the ceaseless attack of the atmosphere.
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