FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 43 



countrv from Moscow and jMa\ field north has to be so con- 

 sidered. 



Quite different from the region that was last ^^foose river 

 under consideration is the greater part of the drain- ^op^si'H'i'y- 

 aire of ]Moose river. A ffood place to l)eiiin an examination 

 of that region would l)e iVIount Kineo, from which on a clear 

 day with map and compass a general idea of the country can 

 be gained, and considerable learned about its minor features. 

 From that ])oint of view the conception of the Moose river 

 towns as one topographical basin is very distinctly gained. 

 You can see its northern and southern boundaries, and turn- 

 ing west can look for forty miles over the comparatively 

 smooth land that forms the body of it. To the northwest, 

 across northern ^Middlesex and Revolutionary Soldiers, lies 

 high ridge or mountain land, separating the Moose river from 

 the West Branch Penobscot. This runs finally, on the west, 

 into Moose River Bald mountain. Just across the lake, and 

 south of the mouth of the river, is the Blue Ridge. It is 

 knife-edge shaped, you are looking at it on end, and beyond 

 it in the same range, or a little west of southwest, is the long 

 high ridge called Misery mountain, ending abruptly at Misery 

 pond and prolonged beyond it in the ridge called Cold Stream 

 hill. Maps do not show this relationship — indeed the con- 

 tinuity of the feature is broken at two points, Misery pond as 

 noted and the pass of which the Canadian Pacific has taken 

 ad^'antage, — but the courses of the streams in the region will 

 bear out what is here said. This is the dividing watershed 

 between the lower ^loose river and the main Kennebec. 

 Each side of it is a big area of mainly flat and spruce covered 

 land. 



A good deal of forestal mapping may be done from Mount 

 Kineo. Just across the lake in southern Tomhegan, stretch- 

 ing across the townshij) to Bi'assua pond, is a big hard wood 

 country in which as a rule, l)ut little spruce is found. North 

 of that, reaching around across southern Middlesex, and west, 

 is a larire area of black "-rowth — that is, land in whichever- 



