Aroo'stook

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 446

Aroo'stook, a river which, rising in the north of Maine, falls into the St John in New Brunswick, after a course of about 120 miles. It possesses an historical interest from its connection with the long-agitated question of the north-east boundary between British America and the United States.

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