3G4 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



men, for the purpose of commanding the water at their pleasure, 

 in order to facilitate the floating down of their logs in the spring 

 and early part of summer. 



The slate I'ock, which had not been seen in place since leaving 

 No. 6, here shows itself again above the surface. 



Just below the dam, the Seboois, which has pursued rather a 

 sluggish course above, the current rendered more so by the dam 

 itself, begins to move more briskly. This is occasioned by the 

 commencement of a slope, or greater incline of the bed of the 

 river. This slope is confined to the bed, but does not affect the 

 bank, which, on the west side, is a somewhat level plain or plateau, 

 and on the east, hills of pretty high elevation. 



This slope continues a regular but pretty fast descending grade 

 for three or four miles, and thus forms a magnificent gorge, through 

 which the waters, crowded on either side by the precipitous banks, 

 which rise, during the last half of the course, nearly or quite three 

 hundred feet in height, finally rushes with immense velocity and 

 power. The bed of this gorge is the slate rock. The direction of 

 the river, in this place, is the same as that of the strata of the rock 

 formation over which it passes, both pursuing the same " strike" 

 the whole distance until it comes to the last pitch, more properly 

 called Godfrey's falls, where it curves to the east, thus cutting the 

 rock strata more at a right angle and terminates the rapids by a 

 leap, and a plunge into the basin below of nearly or quite fifty feet 

 in height. 



While the water passes over the slate in the direction of its 

 strike, it wears it away apparently uniformly, thus forming a regu- 

 larly descending plane obstructed only by the points and knobs, 

 and irregular jutting up of the edges and fragmentary portions of 

 the strata ; but when the current is turned across the strata, its 

 effect is to break it off in tabular masses, and thus changes it into a 

 succession of cataracts and cascades over the rough and unequal 

 steps formed by rending away those masseai from their parent 

 bed. The river, after this, meeting with comparatively small ob- 

 structions only, passes along more quietly until it unites with the 

 Penobscot a little above Hunt's farm, in No. 3. 



At the foot of these falls commences the long " carry," or pcn't- 

 age of the Seboois, three miles in length, well known to lumber- 

 men and voyageurs in this section. At first, the boats and luggage, 

 after being taken out of the water, had to be "ioled^' up the steep 



