"The primeval Woods of Maine still cover an extent seven times that of the famous Black Forest of Germany at its largest expanse in modern times.
Today, at near.
The States of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Delaware could be lost together in our northern forests, and still have about each a margin of wilderness sufficiently wide to make its exploration without a compass a work of desperate adventure." Thus wrote Walter Wells in his 1869 survey report on the State of Maine\'s resources. "The primeval Woods of Maine still cover an extent seven times that of the famous Black Forest of Germany at its largest expanse in modern times