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Stream, which descends from Bald Mountain. There is a stream 

 arising from this pond twelve miles in length, and communicates 

 with Long Pond. There are numerous falls upon it, which Mr. 

 Boise informs me amount, in all, to seventy feet fall. Logs are run 

 down this stream to Long Pond. Attean Pond is eight miles west 

 from Boise's, and is said to be fi'om six to eight miles in length, and 

 three miles wide. It empties into Holob Pond, and into Moose 

 Kiver above the bridge. Between Attean and Parlin Ponds, there 

 is an abundance of large Norway pines, spruce and larch trees."* 

 Moose River is formed by numerous streams, near the western 

 boundary of the county, and its whole course is a chain of ponds 

 connected by the main river. Its course is first S.W. for twelve 

 miles, where it forms abend in No. 4, 1th Range, and enters Attean 

 Pond, which is about eight miles long and three wide. A course 

 of one mile N. carries its waters into Wood Pond, a sheet of water 

 of nearly the same size and form as that of last mentioned. The 

 course of the river is here changed to E., and in five miles. Long 

 Pond makes a widening in the river for a distance of eight miles 

 further. The shores of this lake are composed of flinty slate, green- 

 stone, trap, and quartz rock. Ledges of argillaceous slate are also 

 abundant. In the vicinity of this pond, cedars and pines are found 

 in large numbers. The following statement of Dr. Jackson refers 

 to land in the neighborhood of Long Pond. He writes: (Report 

 III, p. 42,) " Mr. Coburn informs me that his lot lies between Long 

 Pond and the Canada road ; that it cost him two dollars per acre, 

 and since he came into possession of it, he has cleared the wood 

 from twenty-five acres, at the cost of twelve dollars per acre, or 

 three hundred dollars. On the first year after clearing, he raised 

 on the land, hay and grain, which he sold for six hundred dollars, 

 and for two years following, he sold the produce for two hundred 

 and fifty dollars per annum. Exclusive of the cost of cutting, his 

 hay sold for twenty-five dollars per ton. The land, at the time we 

 were there, was covered with oats and grass, which were in thriv- 

 ing condition. From this statement, it would appear that good 

 investments may be made by clearing farms on this river." Pro- 

 ceeding east for eight miles — the river being sluggish and deep ' 



*Frora this report I also learn an aclditional fact in regard to the Sugar Maple. 

 Dr. Jackson writes that Mr. Boise makes his own sugar from the maple sap, and 

 says that he obtains eight pounds of good sugar from a barrel of sap on the first 

 tapping, while the next year, a barrel of sap gives nine pounds of sugar from the 

 same trees. The quality of the juice increases from year to year, by tapping, while 

 its quantity diminishes. — See page 48. 



