Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1839-06-27
From the Bangor Wing.
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF
THE GEOLOGY OF MAINE.


Few places in this State present create
err variety of magnificent landscape views
than are to be found in the northern part
Of Oxford county. and about the lakes
which are the sources Of the Great Andro%
scogg'n. 1t is entirely primitive region,
consisting of granite mountains and exten-
siye SWELL, of land, thicky covered with a
thrifty growth of rock maple and yellow
birch, interspersed in the valleys with beau-
tilul groves Of the true pumpkin pine.
Something like half a dozen lakes, varying
each from fifteen to thirty miles in circum-
ference, are found among the hills. whose
waters possess the same clear and beauti-
full transparency for which lake George has
been so much admired.
Nineteen years ago, the writer visited
this interesting section, then an unbroken
wilderness, and occupied ouly by solitary
Indian, Matalunk, who for many years had
built his wlgwam on one Of the Islands in
lake Umbagog. In the canoe of this lndi-
an the writer passed over these lakes and
up their tributary streams, occasionally as
cending some high land from whence could
be seen the head waters of the Chaudiere.
the St. John, the Penobscot the Kenne-
bee, the Saco aud the Connecticut--while
to the south west the naked summits Of the
white hills raised high their gigantic mass
es Since then great change has taken
place, roads have been opened into this re-
gion, the adventurous lumberman has cut
his way to the remotest sources of the riv--
er, little village has sprung up near the
outlet of the lower lake, and The silence Of
the wildern ess has given place TO the hiss
ing music of the saw-mll and the resound-
ing axe of the hardy pioneer. DR.. Jack.
sou visited this region but found the geo.
logical features of the country to be very,
simple, containing nothing but granite, mi
ca slate, Limestone, with occasional beds OF
hog iron. After short examination, DR..
Jackson returned, and his assistant Dr.,
Stevenson, was directed to proceed up the
Megalloway, river to the boundary line Of
Canada, and he has made seperatc report
of this Reconnaissance.
The country on the MegalIoway appears
from his report to be Of much better quail
ty than was generally supposed. and will at
no distant period give support to numer-.
GUS and thrifty population. He describes
the country about lake Parmachena, one Of
the sources Of the Megalloway as follows:
:" The land in the vicinity Of this lake is
exceedingly fine, and would most undoubtt
eddy prove a valuable tract of country,
were it not situated so far north, beyond
the reach Of civilized man. The hills in
this section are not high, bu' gently sopng
to the south, and clothed, as they are, With
natures richest vestment, render it at once
valuable and interesting" But the most
important result from this reconnaissance
arises from the fact, tina, he discovers in the
course Of his examination that the line be-
tween Maine and New Hampshire does not
extend to the true highlands that divide The
waters contemplated in the treaty of 1873.
DR.. Stevenson traced the State line to the
north west angle of the State. as made by
the commissioners between Maine and N.
Hampshire in 1923, and from his examin-1
alton of the water courses from that place,
he comes to the following conclusion -
+" From the rise of TIE Megollomay ,tDer at
the point north Of The north ,cest angle Of The
STATE, there can be little doHbt of the fact,
that the ,iger takes its rise IN CauGda as the
boundaries are no,o defined, and that the
land diriding Maine and .N'e.p Hampshire.
docs not ran far enough north By ,igM or
ten miles-falting. far short of the highlands
tins leaUimg a large enfent of territory to
the Canada possessions that ,ightfialy be-
longs to these too States" II is certainly
very remarkable that, after being nm indie
pendent State for twenty years, that on
nearly two thirds Of our frontier, we have
no established boundary line. There -
certainly faut somewhere-and however
much embarrassment the General Govespe