der very unfavorable circumstances and without resources, continued the war with Russia and the Servians, until, when totally exhausted, his divan concluded a treaty with the Russians at Bucharest, May 28, 1812, by which the Pruth became the boundary of the two empires, the Servians receiving the promise of an amnesty. From this time the daring and despotic character of Mahmoud manifested itself with striking effect, both in reforms at home and in wars abroad. The Wahabees of Arabia were subdued by Ibrahim Pasha. Dreading the increasing power of Ali Pasha of Yanina, Mahmoud made war on him and crushed him in 1822. In 1821 his Greek subjects revolted. By the aid of Mehemet Ali he carried on a successful war against them, but with such extreme cruelty that France, Russia, and Great Britain remonstrated. Their mediation being disregarded by Mahmoud, they attacked and destroyed his fleet at Navarino in 1827. In 1826, after a desperate struggle, in which he displayed great courage and ability, he had overthrown the janizaries, and organized an army on European principles. With full confidence in its power, he did not shrink from a war against Russia, but was defeated, Diebitsch even crossing the Balkan, and in consequence of the mediation of England, France, and Prussia, he signed the treaty of Adrianople in 1829. In 1832, Mehemet Ali having refused to withdraw his troops from Syria, which he had occupied as well as Candia, Mahmoud made energetic preparations against him, but was defeated by Ibrahim Pasha at Hems and Konieh, and was only saved by Russian intervention from being dethroned. The result was an alliance for mutual defence between Turkey and Russia. In the mean time Mahmoud had done much to improve the domestic condition of his kingdom. Roads were made, postal communication was established, ambassadors were appointed to the European courts, and women were allowed to appear in public, measures which did not fail to make him many enemies among the conservative party. Justice was speedily and severely administered, and an energetic though unscrupulous police, often aided by the sultan himself, disguised, did much to establish order. But his oppression of all the higher officers of his kingdom, and the frequency with which he plundered, displaced, or slew them, deprived him of trustworthy aid, and his reign was a succession of revolts and treason. He with drew favor from men of ability to place it in a barber, and in a buffoon named Khalet Effendi, through whose intrigues and selfish advice he oppressed his pashas, and drove many provinces to rebellion. In 1839, being still determined to reduce Mehemet Ali, he made war on him, claiming tribute due. His army was again defeated by Ibrahim, but he died before the news reached him. He was succeeded by his son, the present ruler, Abdul Medjid. MAHOGANY (Swietenia mahogani, Linn.), a tree of the natural order cedrelacea, a native of South America, Honduras, and the West India islands, and among the most valuable of tropical timber trees. The genus is named in honor of Baron Gerard van Swieten. The mahogany species is a large, spreading tree, with pinnate, shining leaves. The trunk often exceeds 40 feet in height and 4 or 5 feet in diameter. The flowers, in spikes like the lilac, are whitish or yellowish red, and are succeeded by fruit or capsules of an oval form and the size of a turkey's egg. Though the growth is very rapid, the wood is hard, heavy, and closegrained, of a dark, rich, brownish red color. The so called Spanish mahogany, which includes all the above except that from Honduras, is imported in logs about 10 feet long and 2 feet square. The Honduras mahogany is usually larger, the logs being from 12 to 18 feet long, and from 2 to 3 feet square. It is chiefly obtained upon low moist land, and is generally soft and coarse. The trees which grow on rocky elevated grounds are of smaller size, but the wood is harder and more beautifully veined. The coarse variety is much used for a foundation on which to veneer the finer varieties of the wood, and from its spongy nature is well adapted for this purpose, as the glue adheres very firmly to it. The natives make this wood serve many useful purposes, as canoes, handles for tools, &c. Some have supposed the Honduras to be a different species from the Spanish, from its being lighter in color, as well as porous in texture; but it is now ascertained that these differences arise from the different situations in which the trees are found. The largest log ever cut in Honduras was 17 feet long, 57 inches broad, and 64 inches deep, measuring 5,421 feet of inch plank, and weighing upward of 15 tons. The mahogany brought from Africa and the East is decidedly inferior to either of the above; but a fine specimen sent from Calcutta to the great exhibition in London proves that the best quality may be raised in the East Indies. The Spanish mahogany is considered the most useful of all woods for household furniture, for which it is adapted especially by its durability, beauty, hardness, and susceptibility of polish. Alkalies are often applied to the lighter colored wood in order to deepen the shade, but the best effect is produced by using a colorless varnish which brings out in fresh beauty the rich veins, and leaves its natural tints unchanged. The grain, or curl as it is called, is sometimes so beautiful, that it increases the value of the log to an enormous price; several logs have been sold for over $5,000 each. In one instance 3 logs, each 15 feet long and 38 inches square, produced from a single tree, brought $15,000. It is usually a difficult matter for dealers to judge with precision of the worth of the wood in logs. Mahogany is said to have been employed about the year 1595 in the repairing of some of Sir Walter Raleigh's ships, but it was not used for cabinet work till 1720, when a few planks were brought from the West Indies and given to Dr. Gibbons, a physician of London. A man named Wollaston, being employed by him to make some trifling articles from this wood, discovered its rare qualities, and soon brought it into high repute. The imports of mahogany into the United States in the year ending June 30, 1859, chiefly from Hayti, Cuba, and Honduras, were valued at about $264,000, of which $44,000 worth was reexported, chiefly to England, Sicily, and Russia. Manufactured mahogany was imported to the value of $14,000, chiefly from France, England, and Mexico. MAHOMET. See MоHAMMED. MAHON. See PORT MAHON. MAHON, LORD. See STANHOPE, Earl. MAHONING, an E. co. of Ohio, bordering on Penn., drained by the Mahoning and Little Beaver rivers; area, 422 sq. m.; pop. in 1850, 23,735. It has an undulating surface and a highly productive soil. Coal and iron ore are found. The productions in 1850 were 151,110 bushels of wheat, 261,019 of Indian corn, 285,143 of oats, and 288,010 lbs. of wool. There were 10 grist mills, 26 saw mills, 5 iron founderies, 2 woollen factories, 13 tanneries, 58 churches, and 6,670 pupils attending schools. MAHONY, FRANCIS, an English journalist and author, born in Ireland about 1805. He was sent during boyhood to several Jesuit colleges in France and subsequently to Rome, where he remained for some years, and until he had taken orders. He soon abandoned the clerical vocation to devote himself entirely to literature. He wrote for "Fraser's Magazine," at the time when Maginn, Carlyle, and many other distinguished men contributed to it, "Reliques of Father Prout," since collected in a book (2 vols., London, 1835; 2d ed., 1 vol., London, 1859), which ranks among the most genial works of modern humor. Mahony has been an extensive traveller in Europe and the East, and is an able linguist, versifying with elegance in several languages. He has written several books, but is best known to the English public as a journalist. In 1851 he was examined by the parliamentary committee on the mortmain laws, as regarded their effect in the Papal States. Of late years he has resided in Paris, whence he contributes correspondence to English journals. longed originally to that low rank; but they are not strict in religious observances, and abstain from no kind of food except beef. Perfidy and cruelty are their most characteristic vices. In personal appearance, though hardy, active, and well proportioned, they are very illfavored; their stature is small, their skins are dark, and their features irregular. They are much given to athletic exercises, and are excellent horsemen, but their turbulent and predatory habits unfit them for regular military service. The Mahrattas first appear in history about the middle of the 17th century, when they possessed a narrow tract of territory bordering on the Arabian sea and extending nearly from Goa to Guzerat. Sevajee (born 1626, died 1680), the son of an officer in the service of the last Mohammedan king of Bejapoor, was the founder of the Mahratta empire. Having collected an army among the mountains, he overthrew the kingdom of Bejapoor, and gradually united under his own rule the multitude of petty states among which the Mahrattas were divided. His son Sambajee extended his conquests, but was finally put to death by Aurungzebe. Under Saho, grandson of Sevajee, the prime minister or peishwa and the paymastergeneral divided the empire between them; the former establishing at Poonah an actual supremacy over the confederate Mahratta states, and the latter founding the new kingdom of Nagpoor. Guzerat, where subsequently arose the independent power of the Guicowar, Orissa, and a great part of Malwah, were overrun by the Mahrattas, and in 1758 they made themselves masters of Delhi. Defeated however by Ahmed Shah Dooranee in the great battle of Paniput (1761), their downfall began; and though they again obtained a footing in Delhi (1771), they lost valuable possessions to the armies of Tippoo Sahib, and were driven from the Mohammedan metropolis by the British in 1803. A few years later two other Mahratta chiefs, Holkar and Sindia, who had founded independent states at Indore and Gwalior, entered into a confederacy with the peishwa and the Berar rajah against the British. After a protracted war the Mahratta power was finally overthrown (1819), the peishwa became a prisoner, and his title and authority were abolished. MAHRATTAS (Maha-rashtra, great people), a people of Hindostan, found chiefly in the Bombay and Madras presidencies. Their prim- MAI, ANGELO, an Italian scholar and caritive territory is said to have included Candeish dinal, born at Schilpario, a village of the provBaglana and a part of Berar, and to have ex-ince of Bergamo, March 7, 1781, died at Albano, tended N. W. as far as the river Nerbudda; but they subsequently spread themselves across the whole peninsula, through the present dominions of Holkar, Sindia (Gwalior), and the Guicowar, and the country of Nagpoor, in which they still form an important element in the population. Some writers, however, regard them as foreigners who emigrated from the W. part of Persia about the 7th century, and Pickering assigns them an Arabian or Egyptian origin. They are Hindoos of the Soodra caste, and even their chieftains, who derived their ascendency from being the head men of villages, be Sept. 8, 1854. At the age of 17 he entered the In and cardinal. His literary reputation was established by his careful exploration of the Ambrosian library, and by several important discoveries in the then almost unknown department of palimpsests, or rewritten manuscripts. Among his discoveries in Milan were fragments of the orations of Cicero pro Scauro, Tullio, Flacco, and in Clodium (Milan, 1814); several orations of Cornelius Fronto, and several letters of the emperor Marcus Aurelius and of Lucius Verus (Milan, 1815; new ed., Rome, 1846); a fragment of 8 orations of Q. Aurelius Symmachus (Milan, 1815; new ed., Rome, 1846); the complete oration of Isæus on the inheritance of Cleonymus (Milan, 1815); an oration of Themistius (1816); several books of the "Roman Antiquities" of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1816); an Itinerarium Alexandri, and a work of Julius Valerius, Res gesta Alexandri (1817); fragments of Eusebius and Philo, and of Eusebius's Chronicorum Canonum Libri duo (1818), which he restored in conjunction with Dr. Zohrab from an Armenian manuscript; and fragments of the Iliad from the oldest known manuscripts (Milan, 1819). He also discovered at Rome the long-sought work of Cicero, De Republica (Rome, 1822). As keeper of the Vatican library, Mai resolved to publish collections of the unpublished sacred as well as profane authors from the Vatican manuscripts, similar to those of Muratori, Mabillon, and Montfaucon, leaving to future scholars the task of critically editing, commenting, and translating. On this plan he commenced in 1825 the magnificent Scriptorum Veterum Nova Collectio e Vaticanis Codicibus edita (10 vols. 4to., Rome, 1825–’38), which was followed by Auctores Classici e Vaticanis Codicibus editi (10 vols. 8vo., 1828–38), and the Spicilegium Romanum (10 vols., 1839-'44). His last publiestion, Nora Bibliotheca Patrum (6 vols., 184553), forms an indispensable supplement to almost all collective editions of the church fathers. He had also prepared an edition of the celebrated biblical Codex Vaticanus, but died before the completion of the work, which was published by Vercellane (Rome, 1857). MAIDSTONE, a municipal and parliamentary borough and market town of Kent, England, situated on the right bank of the Medway, 27 m. W. by S. from Canterbury, and 56 m. S. E. from London by the south-eastern railway; pop. in 1851, 20,801. The principal manufacture is of paper. The great parish church of All Saints, erected in the 14th century, and now splendidly restored, is one of the largest edifices of the kind in England. There are many good schools, one of which, All Saints college, founded in 1846, is kept in the building of the old college of All Saints, suppressed by Edward VI. The navigation of the Medway has been of late improved, so that vessels of above 70 tons can now reach Maidstone, and its traffic has been thereby greatly increased. MAIL, and MAIL COACHES. See POST. MAILATH, JÁNOS NEPOMUK, Count, a Hungarian author, born in Pesth, Oct. 5, 1786, died by his own hands, Jan. 3, 1855. He was employed in the public service of Hungary until a disease of the eyes compelled him to relinquish his position; and resuming it at a subsequent period, he was finally thrown out of office by the revolution of 1848. Poverty induced him to emigrate with his daughter Henrietta to Munich; and to escape becoming a burden to their friends, father and daughter drowned themselves in the lake of Starnberg, an event which created great sensation in the Austrian empire. He was much respected for his generous qualities, and published a "History of the Austrian Empire," a "History of the Magyars," and other works, all in German, including original poems and numerous translations from the Hungarian, among others the masterpiece of Eötvös, the "Village Notary." MAIMBOURG, Louis, a French historian, born in Nancy in 1610, died in Paris, Aug. 13, 1686. At the age of 16 he entered the society of Jesus, and was sent to Rome to study theology. On returning to France, he became professor of belles-lettres in the college of Rouen, and was afterward appointed to the office of preacher. In 1682 he was expelled from his order for defending the tenets of the Gallican party; but Louis XIV. settled a pension on him. He spent his latter days in the abbey of St. Victor in Paris, engaged in literary pursuits, and at the time of his death was writing a history of the English reformation. The most important of his works are histories of Arianism, of the iconoclasts, of the schism of the Greeks, of the great schism of the West, of Lutheranism, of Calvinism, and of the league. A uniform edition of Maimbourg's histories was published in 1686-7 (14 vols. 8vo., Paris). MAIMONIDES, MOSES (Heb. Rabbi Mosheh ben Maimon, commonly abridged into the initial name RaMBaM; Arab. Abu Amran Musa ibn Abdallah ibn Maimon Al-kortobi), a Jewish theologian and philosopher, born in Cordova, Spain, March 30, 1135, died in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 13, 1204. He was the descendant of a family distinguished in the annals of the Jewish community of his native city, at that period a principal seat of Arabic learning, and received from his father Maimon, who made himself known as a theological and astronomical writer in Arabic, a superior education. His energetic, inquiring, and logical spirit early embraced the whole range of the scientific studies of his time, and he had hardly reached the age of manhood when he was distinguished by a rare proficiency in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, and theology, as well as by a surpassing ability as a writer in Arabic and Hebrew. Few particulars, however, are known of his earlier life. Of his teachers, the celebrated Averroes became his friend. In consequence of the great persecution of Jews, Christians, and sectarian Mohammedans by the dynasty of the Almohades in Cordova, he re tired with his father to north-western Africa; but meeting there with the same spirit of fanaticism, he finally went to Egypt in 1165, passing through Acre and Jerusalem, where his father died, and establishing himself in Mitzr or Fostat (Old Cairo). Here he maintained himself for some time by trade, but soon after found ample opportunity to display his scientific acquirements, and was appointed physician to the court of the sultan Saladin, which office he also held under two successive reigns. At the same time he was active as a rabbi in the Jewish congregation of Cairo, and especially as a theological teacher, his fame for knowledge, purity of character, benevolence, and piety attracting numerous pupils not only from the surrounding regions of the East, but also from the most distant countries of the West. But he exercised a far more powerful influence upon his brethren by his numerous writings, with few exceptions in Arabic, almost all of which have since been acknowledged as standard works. The most distinguished Hebrew translators of the age vied in spreading his masterpieces all over the Jewish world, and thus enabled him to become almost the second lawgiver of his people, and to inaugurate among them a period of literary and philosophical activity, which is still regarded as the golden age of the Jews in exile. Of his works, of which numerous original MSS. are extant in the libraries of Oxford, Rome, Parma, &c., embracing among others treatises on medicine, mathematics, and astronomy, the most frequently reprinted (in Hebrew translations or original) are: Perush hammishnah (“Commentary on the Mishna"), including an introduction and an ethical treatise known under the title of Shemonah perakim ("Eight Chapters"); Sefer hammitzvoth ("The Book of the Commandments"), a systematic compend of the biblical commandments, both positive and negative, according to the rabbis amounting to the number of 613; Sefer hahiggayon ("The Book of Logic"); Mishneh torah (“The Copy of the Law"), a general code of Jewish observances, written originally in Hebrew, in many respects the most extraordinary strictly rabbinical production, generally known under the appellation of Yad hazakah ("The Strong Hand"), from its 14 divisions, Yad signifying hand and fourteen;" and Moreh nebukhim ("The Guide of the Erring"), a philosophy of Judaism, which from its influence on the development of Jewish science and genius is the most important production of the author, and of which the original Arabic text, in Hebrew letters, from an Oxford manuscript, with a French translation and notes by S. Munk, is now in course of publication at Paris (Le guide des égarés, traité de théologie et de philosophie par Moise ben Maimoun, 3 vols.). Some of the views of Maimonides having been violently attacked by various western rabbis, his orthodoxy and the rights of philosophy in the synagogue were vindicated among others by his learned son and successor as physician to the Egyptian court, Abraham ben Moses. MAINE, one of the eastern states of the American Union, and the tenth admitted under the federal constitution, situated between lat. 42° 57′ and 47° 32′ N., and long. 66° 52′ and 71° 06′ W.; extreme length N. and S. 303 m., extreme width 212 m.; average length about 200 m., average width about 160 m.; area, 31,766 sq. m., or 20,330,240 acres, being 1.08 per cent. of the whole territory of the United States in 1850. It is bounded N. W. and N. by Canada, E. by New Brunswick, S. E. and S. by the Atlantic ocean, and W. by New Hampshire. As established by the treaty of Washington, the boundary on the E. is the St. Croix river and a line running due N. from a monument at its source to St. John river; on the N. the line follows the St. John and St. Francis rivers to a monument at the outlet of Lake Pohenagamook, and in the N. W. it follows the highlands from the said lake in a S. W. direction to the N. E. corner of New Hampshire. Maine is divided into 16 counties, viz.: Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Somerset, Waldo, Washington, and York. The cities of Maine are Augusta, Bangor, Bath, Belfast, Biddeford, Calais, Gardiner, Hallowell, Portland, and Rockland; and the principal towns and villages are Camden, Eastport, Ellsworth, Frankfort, Kittery, Lewiston, Old Town, Saco, Thomaston, Waldoborough, Waterville, and Wiscasset. Augusta, Kennebec co., at the head of natural navigation on the Kennebec, is the seat of government.-The population of Maine, according to the federal enumerations, has been as follows: Decennial increase: 1790-1800, 57.16 per cent.; 1800-'10, 50.74; 1810-20, 30.45; 1820-30, 33.89; 1830-240, 25.62; 1840-'50, 16.22. Ratio of population to the square mile in 1850, 18.36; to the total population of the United States, 2.51 per cent. Of the white population in 1850, 296,745 were males and 285,068 females; of the colored, 736 were males, 630 females, 895 blacks, and 461 mulattoes. Families, 103,337; dwellings, 95,802. Deaf and dumb, 266; blind, 198; insane, 561; idiotic, 577. Ages: under 1 year, 13,995; 1 and under 5, 61,781; 5 and under 10, 74,453; 10 and under 15, 71,743; 15 and under 20, 67,025; 20 and under 30, 99,995; 30 and under 40, 69,731; 40 and under 50, 53,355; 50 and under 60, 35,194; 60 and under 70, 20,782; 70 and under 80, 10,495; 80 and under 90, 3,455; 90 and under 100, 332; 100 and upward, 13; unknown, 820. Of the total population, 551,129 were native-born, 31,456 foreigners, and 584 of unknown origin. Of those born in the United above the level of the sea. Saddleback, Bige. low, Abraham, North and South Russell, and Haystack are among the others best known.Maine is almost exclusively a region of the azoic rocks. The W. portion of the state is granitic, and numerous quarries of excellent granite are worked along the coast for the supply of cities in more southern states. Many of these quarries are directly accessible by ships. The metamorphic rocks abound in a great variety of interesting minerals, and some localities are famous among mineralogists, as Paris, Oxford co., for its beautiful colored tourmalines; Parsonsfield, York co., and Phippsburg, on the coast of Lincoln co., for varieties of garnet and various other minerals; Brunswick and Topsham for feldspar, &c.; and Bowdoinham for beryls. Over the surface of the country the drift formation is everywhere spread in the form of bowlders and sand and gravel. Even upon the highest summits are found scattered rounded fragments of formations situated in places further N. Along the S. portion of the state deposits of tertiary clays are found in many localities beneath the drift. They are characterized by beds of shells of the common clam and mussel, and consequently belong to the newer pliocene. They extend into the interior as far as Augusta and Hallowell, and are penetrated by wells sunk 50 feet or more below the surface. Limestone quarries are worked in many places among the metamorphic rocks. Thomaston, at the mouth of Penobscot bay, has for many years furnished from its extensive quarries supplies of lime for a large portion of the Atlantic seaboard and the gulf of Mexico. (See LIME.) Argillaceous slates of excellent quality are worked for roofing slates at several towns on the Piscataquis, a branch of the Penobscot. Along the shore of Passamaquoddy bay are beds of red sandstone, probably of the age of the Connecticut river sandstone. It is penetrated by dikes of trap, and at the contact of the two rocks are developed many interesting minerals. On Campbell's island and on the shores of Cobscook bay veins of galena are found of some promise at the contact of trap dikes and argillaceous limestone. Trap abounds in this portion of the state, and in the interior it forms hills of considerable extent. The sources of the rivers are in a wild mountainous territory spreading over the central portion of the state. The mountains are in scattered groups, with no appearance of regular ranges. Their structure is of the metamorphic rocks; and so far as explored they present little of economical importance. On the Aroostook are numerous beds of limestone and one large body of red hematite. Another similar bed of this ore has been worked since 1848 at Woodstock, New Brunswick, near Houlton in Maine. Argillaceous slates and limestones prevail over the N. portion of the state. But few attempts have been made in Maine to work metallic ores. blast furnace was run for some years with bog iron ores on the Piscataquis, and another was States, Maine furnished 517,117, Massachusetts 16,535, New Hampshire 13,509, Vermont 1,177, and New York 973; and of foreigners, Great Britain 16,412 (Ireland 13,871), British America 14,181, Germany 320, and France 143. Of the male population over 15 years of age (162,711), there were employed in commerce, trade, manufactures, mechanic arts, and mining, 38,247; in agriculture, 77,082; in labor not agricultural, 26,833; in the army, 114; in sea and river navigation, 15,649; in law, medicine, and divinity, 2,212; in other pursuits requiring education, 1,727; in government civil service, 419; in domestic service, 232; in other occupations, 196. The number employed in manufacturing establishments was, in 1820, 7,643; in 1840, 21,879; and in 1850, 28,078. Births in 1849250, 13,995; marriages, 4,886; deaths, 7,582.The coast extends in an E. N. E. direction, from Kittery point on the W. to Quoddy head on the E., about 278 m. in a straight line; but following its exact outline, and including the islands, the length of shore line is 2,486 m. It is studded with numerous islands, and indented by many bays and inlets, forming excellent harbors. The largest island is Mount Desert, having an area of 60,000 acres, and lying on the W. of Frenchman's bay. Its formation is very peculiar and its scenery picturesque and striking. Thirteen peaks, the highest variously estimated at from 1,480 to 2,300 feet high, rise from its surface from W. to N. Beside this, the principal islands are Isle au Haut, off the entrance of Penobscot bay, in which are Deer, Long, and Fox islands, and the Isles of Shoals, a group of 8 belonging partly to New Hampshire. Among the largest bays are Passamaquoddy, Machias, Pleasant, Frenchman's, Penobscot, Muscongus, Casco, and Saco. Maine is abundantly supplied with water courses. The Woolastook, flowing into the St. John on the N., and the Aroostook on the E., each with numerous tributaries, drain the N. portion of the state. The Penobscot, flowing into Penobscot bay, is the largest river, draining with its branches and connecting lakes the centre of the state, and navigable for large vessels to Bangor, 60 m. from its mouth. The Kennebec, W. of the Penobscot, affords great and valuable water power, and is navigable for ships to Bath, 12 m. from its mouth. Further W. are the Androscoggin and Saco. Several of the rivers have falls of considerable note. Scattered over the surface of the state are a great number of lakes, the largest of which is Moosehead, 35 m. long and from 4 to 12 m. wide; among others are Umbagog, Sebec, Chesuncook, Schoodic, Baskahegan, Long, Portage, Eagle, Madawaska, Millikonet, and Sebago.The surface is generally hilly, mostly level toward the coast, but rising in the interior. A broken chain of eminences, apparently an extension of the White mountains of New Hampshire, crosses the state from the W. to the N. E., terminating in Mars hill on the borders of New Brunswick. The highest elevation in the range is Mount Katahdin, more than 5 000 feet VOL. XI.-6 A |