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with the suhject, of whom inquiry was made, reckoned the amount 

 at less than fifteen hundred in any year, and most stated it to be 

 from two to three thousand in ordinary seasons. So fin- as could be 

 learned, nearly all of this was brought from abroad, while there can 

 be no doubt whatever, that by judicious management, the whole of it 

 could be grown on the spot, from the refuse of the dairy, with roots, 

 and fattened on buckwheat, with perhaps a little corn, and yield a 

 handsome profit. So good an opportunity of earning thirty to fifty 

 thousand dollars per annum, should by no means be neglected. 



Roads, Distances, &c. — Means of Communication. From 

 Bangor northerly, there is now a railroad in operation to Oldtown 

 and Milford, twelve miles;* thence the traveled road follows the 

 east bank of the Penobscot river as far as Mattawamkeag point, 

 sixty-one miles from Bangor; thence in similar direction to the 

 "Forks," at Molunkus, where it branches, the "Military road" 

 extending in a northeasterly direction to Iloulton, and northwardly 

 thence to Presque Isle in the valley of the Aroostook. 



From the "Forks" at Molunkus, the "Aroostook road" pursues a 

 northerly course, passing through Benedicta, (a half township pur- 

 chased by the Roman Catholic Bishop in Boston, some years since, 

 and where were erected a church and a large buildino; intended for 

 a College,) Golden Ridge, Patten, (a border town of Penobscot 

 county, and a very pleasant village, with many smiling farms and 

 thrifty farmei's.) townships numbers five, six, seven, eight, nine, 

 Masardis, (number ten,) to number eleven, all in the fifth range. 

 This last township is named on some maps Ashland, but the name 

 has not been adopted by the inhabitants. It is the centre from 

 which are fitted out most of the parties -for operations in timber. 

 This road continues also in similar direction to Fort Kent, (forty- 

 eight miles further,) which is on the northern boundary of the State, 

 at the mouth of Fish river. From number eleven, (of fifth range, 

 or Aroostook^ the name of the post office here,) a road tends easterly 

 in the valley of tlie Aroostook river to Presque Isle and Fort Fair- 

 field, continued also to the mouth of the Aroostook and to Tobique, 

 in NcAv Brunswick. By these routes it is seventy-one miles from 



♦Another railroml has been surveyed, and some grading done upon it, from Ban- 

 gor to Lincoln, ubout fifty miles north. 



