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CONGRATS TO M.S. Winston for the suggestion that one of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska is the easternmost point in the U.S. That's a clever observation, but not quite correct. The 180th meridian does in fact go through the Aleutians. However, the International Dateline takes a dogleg turn around the state.
Alaska, all of it, is therefore firmly to the east of the line. Maine is still the easternmost state.
James P. Lynch
King George, Va.
I, TOO, ENJOYED the piece by Marshall Berdan about the first light in Maine. His encounter reminded me of a short story by Katherine Mansfield, "At the Bay." The scene goes as follows:
A few moments later the back door of one of the bungalows opened, and a figure in a broad-striped bathing suit flung down the paddock, cleared the stile, rushed through the tussock grass into the hollow, staggered up the sandy hillock, and raced for dear life over the big porous stones, over the cold, wet pebbles, on to the hard sand that gleamed like oil. Splish-Splosh! Splish- Splosh! The water bubbled round his legs as Stanley Burnell waded out exulting. First man in as usual! He'd beaten them all again. And he swooped down to souse his head and neck.
"Hail, brother! All hail, Thou Mighty One!" A velvety bass voice came booming over the water.
