340 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Alleguash Waters. 



The Alleguash flows into the St. John, and is cue of its largest 

 tributaries, deserving to be treated of as a separate river, since it 

 is one of the largest in our State, and of considerable importance 

 in lumbering operations. This river was visited by ns last year, 

 and a pretty full account of it is found in the Eeport upon the 

 Physical Geograpliy and Agricultural Capabilities of the Wild 

 Lands visited in 1861. Therefore I shall pass rapidly on as far as 

 Chamberlain lake, merely stating that we found iew features of 

 botanical interest additional to those brought out in the repcjrt of 

 last year. I collected in the woods, near Alleguash rapids, a large 

 number of specimens of Cal3'pso borealis, like those already alluded 

 to, and in the same place where I found the delicate bulbs of the 

 plant in the autumn of 1861. We reached Churchill lake upon the 

 2d day of June, and were pained to find an extensive fire raging 

 in the woods at the south of the lake. It is the occurrence of such 

 calamities as this, that renders thc'value of our immense tracts of 

 woodlands so changeable, and it is this which causes proprietors 

 of woodlands to shut out settlers and discourage the building of 

 roads. From an accidental fire, the value of a township may be 

 reduced thousands of dollars in a single week. This fire seemed 

 to have had its origin at a pinnt near the thoroughfare between 

 Churchill and Eagle lakes, and was slowly working round on the 

 eastern shore. Finding that all the exertions in our power would 

 avail nothing in arresting its progress, we made a hurried exam- 

 ination of Spider lake and pushed on to Chamberlain farm. A 

 single word will suffice concerning Spider lake. It is a small body 

 of water on the north-east side of Ciuirchill, connected with it by a 

 narrow rocky stream. The lake is about two miles in length, and on. 

 account of the absence of timber and the abundance of musquitoes, 

 was peculiarly uninviting to us all. 



We reached Chamberlain farndn)use at noon on the 3d of June, 

 having journeyed, in all, from Moosehead lake, three hundred and 

 one miles. Our party here divided, Mr. White, and G. 0. Varuey 

 acting as guide, departing over the lake to Caucomgomoc,' and 

 thence to Chesuncook, and back to the world ; the other party, 

 consisting of Mr. Hitchcock, J. J. Bowley as guide, and the writer, 

 passing southerly towards Mud pond carry. We were very kindly 

 treated, as, indeed, we were last year, by the inmates of the Cham- 

 berlain farmhouse, and were able to obtain fresh supplies of many 



