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plorations in and about Baileyville and Calais. The river below 

 Princeton, as far as its junction with the east branch, falls gently, 

 having only two sets of rapids with the name of "rips." At the 

 Tomah stream where the water is "dead" the vegetation was no- 

 ticeable on account of its luxuriance. The meadow hay in certain 

 locahties along this part of the river was principally made up of 

 Phleum pratense and Calamagrostis Canadensis. 



At 3 P. M. we arrived at Young's island which marks the con- 

 fluence of the two branches of the Schoodic river. Having reached 

 the terminus of our tour on the western river and its lake expan- 

 sions, it now becomes necessary to take a brief resume of the re- 

 sults attained by a topographical and botanical study of the waters. 

 The western river extends, from the source of its remotest tribu- 

 tary to the eastern branch a distance of — townships or approxi- 

 mately — miles. It drains portions of hvenfy townships lying in a 

 general east and west direction. The greater part of the course of 

 the river is south-easterly, but pursues a north-easterly direction 

 in the last portion of the way. The larger portion of the town- 

 ships drained by the western river is average timber land with the 

 usual proportion of inaccessible lumber and hackmetac swamps. 

 The remainder of the territory may be called fair farming land, 

 especially so much of it as borders upon Mill Privilege in Carroll, 

 also the lower part of Six in the first range, that around sections of 

 Big lake and along the remainder of the river as far as " Young's." 



In conclusion, the whole "water-shed" of this branch of the 

 river inclines to south-east by east, S. 80° E. 



• I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 



G. L. GOODALE. 



C. GEOLOGY OF THE MORE NORTHERN AND UNSET- 

 TLED PORTIONS OF THE STATE. 

 Treating this topic very briefly, on account of the want of 

 space, we will first speak of the geology and country watered by 

 the large lakes on the upper Androscoggin ; secondly, a very few 

 notes respecting Moosehead lake ; thirdly, the region of the west 

 branch of the Penobscot and the upper St. John ; fourthly, the 

 Alleguash lakes ; and lastly. Dr. Holmes will give an account of 

 his observations in Aroostook county the past season. These 

 brief accounts are all fragmentary, often supplementary to last 

 year's researches. 



