300 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



We will say a word about the more western of those lakes which 

 we visited.- Pleasant lake lies in townships 6 and 7 of Washington 

 county, but does not extend into Penobscot county as the State 

 Map would indicate. High hills of granite are upon its north and 

 east sides, and somewhat on the west. The entrance from the 

 south is very rough, the road being filled with logs and fallen 

 trees, besides its natural crookedness. The stream was too shallow 

 to permit our canoes to float into the lake. Logs were common 

 here four feet in diameter. Many large boulders of granite are 

 scattered over the surface. 



Pleasant lake empties into Scragly lake by a thoroughfare, so 

 called because the sti'eams connecting the diflferent lakes in the 

 Wild Lands are the only thoroughfares of travel between them. 

 There is a remarkably deep hole in this stream at the head of navi- 

 gation, said by the hunters to be bottomless. It is certainly twenty 

 feet deep, which is remarkable • considering the narrowness of the 

 outlet. Between this hole and Scragly lake, about a mile, the 

 banks are very low, and commonly marshy. Rainy brook at the 

 Bouth-east end of Scragly lake is entirely in a swamp, over a mile 

 and a half in length. The thoroughfare between Scragly and 

 Pleasant lakes connects their very extremities, contrary to its ap- 

 pearance on many maps. The general outline of Scragly is given 

 best on the Penobscot County Map, but it should lie partly in No. 6. 

 We ascended a short thoroughfare from the east part of Scragly to 

 Shaw lake, and found no ledges but an immense number of boulders 

 of granite and trap. This is a very pretty lake, but much smaller 

 than Pleasant. It is not represented at all upon the State Map. 

 There are many islands in Scragly and Junior lakes^ and a few 

 ledges of granite. 



Junior lake is connected by a short thoroughfare with Scragly, 

 and it is six miles in length, and perhaps four miles wide. It is 

 represented correctly upon no published map. Two small lakes 

 are situated near its north end. Duck lake and Mill Privilege lake, 

 which are either omitted or not named upon the maps. No ledges 

 occur either upon Junior lake or any of its small tributary lakes 

 upon the north and west sides, of which there are five, which are 

 incorrectly located or else omitted upon all the maps. Nearer the 

 south end of Junior lake the boulders become small and much 

 water-worn, consisting of an interesting conglomerate, trap, schist 

 and granite. Close by Junior stream they appear to be piled up 



