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the south side, but the uppci portion, rearing itself 3,000 feet higher, is 

 bounded by dccUvitiow of great abruptness. 



A brief description, ilhistratcd by the accompanying heliotype of a 

 model wliich represents the upper tiirce thousand feet of the moinitain, 

 will render intelligible subsequent references to the general features of 

 Ktaadn. 



The crest that bears the higliest peaks is bent lil^e a deep crescent, 

 opening north, and enclosing the Great Basin. At the centre of the 

 crescent are the two chief peaks, which differ in altitude less than 

 twenty feet, and are not more tlian a third of a mile apart. Directly 

 beneatli the East Peak, shoots off to tlie southeast the lonirest of all the 

 s}nu-s, which, narrow above, widens greatly towards its foot. Beyond 

 the peaks, the eastern horn of the crescent includes a thin, serrated 

 crest, and forms at its tip, first, the little towerdike peak known as 

 the Chinmey, and then, across a narrow, s([uare-cut notch, the peak of 

 Pamola,* named from the Indians' demon of the moiuitaiu. It is known 

 to many only as First Peak, so styled because it was tlie first summit 

 rca(;hed by tourists who followed the original eastern route to the 

 mountain. Pamela has a regularly convex, wide northern face, that 

 runs down with a precipitous foot to the level of the basin floor, nearly 

 2,300 feet below the higliest peak. Eastward from Pamela projects a 

 narrow, sharp-ridged spur, the *' Horseback," — an unfortunate name as 

 here applied, since in other cases it invariably means, in Maine, a kame, 

 with which this buttress of solid rock has nothing in conn-uon. Towards 

 its extremity, the ''Horseback" forks, and sends off to the nortiieast a 



lower, flatdjackod spur, while on its southern flank is the East Slide, 



the smaller oi' the two great slides that arc among the peculiar features 

 of Ktaadn. 



Against tlie western horn of the crescent abuts the Table Land, an 

 ahnost absolutely plane surface, inclined to the noithwest at an angle 

 t)f from five to seven degrees, and liaving a length of a mile and a 

 half, and an area of more than five hundred acres. The centre of this 

 plateau is a few hundred feet lower than tlie higliest peak, which has an 

 elevation of 5,215 feet, as determined by Prof. Eernald. Half a mile 

 below the middle point of the sharp brow that bounds the Tabic 

 Land on the south is the head of the Southwest Slide. This slide is 



* Till! naino ns given b}' Jacksuu and Uiose, who havo followed him is Fomo'a. 

 I hiivc ehosen tho form Pamola on the antliorjiy of Kev. Kugene Vetromilc ("The 

 Abi#;ilds and Uieir History," pp. (33-07), foi' many yeary Cailiolic missionary among 

 the Indians of iMaine and New Brnnswiek. Dr. De Laski, in a ])aper to be I'eferred 

 to liiribcr on, a]i]ili(',s the name ineorreetiy tt) tho " apex of Katalidin." 



