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Description. 
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Mount Ktaadn lies about Lat. 45 53 and Lon. 69 W. it covers most 
of Township No.3, Range 9 in Piscataquis County, Maine. Its Light 
is not far from one mile above the level of the sea. It must be at 
least thirty miles in circumference at its base, and perhaps forty, it 
being very irregular. The sides are steep and hard to climb. The 
easiest approach is from the north. A road was cut here from the 
Wissattaquoik stream to the summit of Ktaadn in 18- by Ur. 1’. J. Tracy 
of Stacyviile, and that gentleman informs me that he rode to the top 
on horseback, The deer, caribou, and moose, have followed the road 
in their backward and forward tramps, and in places it has the appear¬ 
ance of a cattle path through the forest. The top of the fountain 
consists of table lands, elevations and valleys. One slightly 
sloping piateau covers at least one hundred acres. The elevations 
are simply .great piles of boulders the size of barrels and hogs- 
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heads, which look as if some gi ant Titan in ages past had heaped them 
up one by one. As seen at a distance the mountain shows two large 
peaks. The southern one is called Pamola in honor of an Indian Deity 
or "Big Devil 11 which they suppose dwelt there and caused the storms 
and winds. The nothern peak is Ktaadn proper. The pecularity about 
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Ktaadn that makes it different from .other mountain in the ifeorld 
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and adds to it so much interest, is the "basin." This is a large 
horse-shoe shaped cavity, like the crater of a volcano except that 
it opens on one side toward the east. This basin is fully two and 
