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enters Skowhegan near the center of the northern line of the town, 

 when its course is southwest until it reaches the Kennebec opposite 

 Bloomfield, and just above Oakes' island. This river runs over a 

 hard gravelly bottom, and the soil upon its banks is chiefly a 

 clayey loam. Malbon's mills, in Skowhegan, is a small village 

 situated upon the Wesserrunsett, at which place there is a starch 

 factory and some other mills. 



Sibley pond, situated in Canaan near the northwestern corner of 

 Pittsfield, is supplied by the waters of Morrill pond in Hartland, 

 and Black stream, which rises in Cornville and runs in a southeast 

 course through the north part of Canaan. This gives rise to Car- 

 rabassett river, which running in a southwest direction through 

 Canaan, reaches the eastern line of Skowhegan, and for a distance 

 of two miles forms the division between this town and Canaan, 

 after which it enters Clinton in Kennebec county, connecting with 

 the Kennebec river at Fairfield. 



The Sebasticook is the only remaining river of any size which 

 claims mention. It takes its rise in Moose pond, a large body of 

 water lying partly in Harmony and partly in Hartland, near the 

 west line of St. Albans. The Sebasticook runs through a corner 

 of Hartland, then in a course southeast through the western portion 

 Palmyra, entering the northeast corner of Pittsfield and coursing 

 through a small part of that town, after which it forms the line 

 between Pittsfield and Detroit, and also Pittsfield and Burnham in 

 Kennebec county, uniting at Winslow about a mile below the 

 village of Waterville with the Kennebec. Main stream, which is 

 formed in Penobscot county, enters Somerset between Cambridge 

 and Eipley, making a division of the towns, is more a succession 

 of small ponds than a complete river. It passes through the south- 

 east part of Harmony, empties into Moose pond, and is in fact a 

 continuation of the Sebasticook. 



This completes the list of the principal rivers in the county, 

 which, running through it at no great distances from each other, 

 all give their supply of water to the Kennebec, the main river of 

 the county, and with these and its other tributaries forming an 

 important source of wealth to the county and State. In that 

 division of my subject relating to the more extreme northern part 

 of the county, some account of other rivers not mentioned here 

 will be given. 



There are numerous smaller streams and brooks of considerable 

 size, which, though not of sufficient import;yice to receive a sepa- 



