304 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



jected to great pressure. At Little Falls the dip is north-westerly, 

 so that we have here a synclinal axis, the same with that alluded 

 to recently in the Indian Township. Near Mr. Gould's house on 

 this carry the schists are a little calcareous, but not enough so to 

 yield quick-lime. 



A few ledges of mica schist, with a nearly vertical dip, occur 

 upon Big Lake, but there are none upon Long or Lewey's Lake. 

 The land is much better than on Grand Lake, and several large 

 clearings have been made, both upon the islands and main land, 

 and have been cultivated for many years, yielding good crops. At 

 the east end of Big Lake is an Indian village, not represented upon 

 any of the maps, where about two hundred Indians of the Passa- 

 maquoddy tribe reside. The Governor of the tribe, Louis Nep- 

 tune, showed me crystals of quartz which were found in the Indian 

 Township. 



It would be highly desirable that a road should bo built from 

 Princeton to Greenfield, a distance of nearly forty miles, in order 

 to connect Calais and Bangor with each other partly by rail. This 

 would make between fifty and sixty miles of turnpike road and 

 thirty-five of railroad, instead of the hundred miles of stage road 

 on the Air Line route ; so that the journey from Calais to Bangor, 

 or the reverse, could easily be made in a single day, without the 

 fatigue of an all-night's ride in a stage. A railroad would be still 

 better. The easiest route would be to keep on the north side of 

 Big Lake, crossing Grand Lake stream near Mr. Gould's house, 

 passing south of Grand and Pocumpus Lakes, and cross Nickatou 

 Lake where it is so very narrow. This would be comparatively a 

 level route. A part of this route might be by water, from Gould's 

 to Princeton, or from Pocumpus Lake to Princeton, by construct- 

 ing a canal two and a half miles long, large enough to permit the 

 passage of a small steamboat. This would require the building of 

 a turnpike road between Greenfield and Pocumpus Lake only 

 twenty-seven miles long. 



At the head of the Kennebasis river at the foot of Lewey's Lake 

 are dikes of trap. Below the banks are alluvial mostly being 

 capable of yielding good crops. Tomar stream, the eastern boun- 

 dary of the Indian Township, is a beautiful creek, navigable for 

 four miles above its mouth. About a mile above the St. Croix 

 river may be seen ledges of mica schist, dipping 40° north-west- 

 erly. 



