Southport Telegraph

The Aroostook Mountains. Doct. Jackson, the Geologist of Maine, gives an interesting account of his examinations of the mountainous region of the disputed territory near Penobscot Forks, which gives a graphic feature of that part of the country, and makes it one of the most sublime and imposing formations. Mount Katadin, is a lofty, precipitous cone of pure granite, whose treeless summit, having no vegetable growth but a few bushels of the mountain cranberry and spicy blue-berries, was attained with great labor, by clambering up almost perpendicular crags. It was, ascertained to be 5,300 feet elevation, the highest in Maine. What is remarkable-that in this granite formation was found diluvial limestone, showing the sea had been there; and in the same region limestone with scoriaceous trap melted and imbrecciated into its seam, in an elegant manner, showing also, that volcanic action had been at work. From one high mountain, the Sugar Loaf Cone, he saw around him no less than fifty lofty peaks, and seventeen mountain lakes, cascades of 200 feet fall, &c.

Why, this Aroostook country must hereafter be called the Alpine Regions of Maine.