Tarry at home travels . e from the coal of Nova Scotia and thelimestone of Thomaston, we should come to primi-tive rock in Mount Katahdin, and that theeastern half of the state of Maine thus presentedin very short distances specimens of all the strati-fications of the earths surface from the oldesttime to our own. The remark has not muchscientific interest, but I have always treasured itas a very good aid to memory as to what Maineis. You can see the beaver build his hut at thenorth end of Maine, and the next day you can seethe Fine Arts Department of Bowdoin College,which is as good a type of
Tarry at home travels . e from the coal of Nova Scotia and thelimestone of Thomaston, we should come to primi-tive rock in Mount Katahdin, and that theeastern half of the state of Maine thus presentedin very short distances specimens of all the strati-fications of the earths surface from the oldesttime to our own. The remark has not muchscientific interest, but I have always treasured itas a very good aid to memory as to what Maineis. You can see the beaver build his hut at thenorth end of Maine, and the next day you can seethe Fine Arts Department of Bowdoin College,which is as good a type of the best modern lifeas you could choose. So you can pass fromprimitive rock to the latest Tertiary. Dr. W. 0. Crosby, who knows much more aboutthe matter than Dr. Jackson ever pretended toknow, says to me, Between Nova Scotia orThomaston and Mount Katahdin we have forma-tions covering a wide range of geological timeand including some of the oldest as well as thevery newest. If any one is curious about Katahdin, I refer. - 5 ?r- 3 39 THE STATE OF MAINE 41 him to the magazme Appalachia of April, 1901,where I have printed my journal of the timeof that ascent. I have said thus much of it byway of inducing readers to make this excursion. Very simply, the heart of Maine is the LakeCountry of the eastern United States, preciselyas Minnesota is the Lake Country of theMississippi Valley, and as we talk of the LakeCountry of England when we go to man knows Nev/ England as seen by his owneye who has not sat on the higher summits ofKatahdin. In Thoreaus books there will befound an account of his ascent. And, not tooccupy more space here, I like to say that theadventure which shall take any man up the Ken-nebec by such of its head waters as come fromthe north, so that he thus may strike the routeof Arnolds detachment of 1775, makes a veryinteresting journey. When Mr. Jared Sparksmade that journey in his varied historical research,they told him that no traveller had gone throu
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