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summer for a canoe. The route is also marked correctly on the map in 

 Kidder's "Revolutionary Operations," and also on an Indian map of 

 1798.1 This route was accurately known at least as early as 1764, for it is men- 

 tioned in instructions given that year by Governor Bernard of Massachusetts, 

 to Surveyor John Mitchel. 



It was by this route many of the early settlers of Houlton came from 

 Maine, as related in the Histories of Houlton. 



On Wilkinson's map a portage is marked from Baskahegan Lake directly 

 to Pleasant Lake of the Scoodic chain. It is also on Allan's map of 1786. 

 B.— Scoodic-Fassadumkeag. The portage is clearly shown on Wilkinson's 

 map of 1859. It appeared 

 on Allan's map of 1786, 

 on Bouchette's of 1815, 

 and others. I have no re- 

 ference to its use, but no 

 doubt such may be found 

 in works on Maine. In 

 Featherstonhaugh and 

 Mudge's Report (p. 21) 

 this portage is said to form 

 part of the old Indian 

 route from Quebec to Pas- 

 samaquoddy, passing up 

 the Chaudière and the 

 Penobscot and down this 

 river to the Passamaquod- 

 dy, and they state this 

 route was known to Tem- 

 ple in 1668 (p. 22). 



If.. St. John- Penobscot. 



A. Eel River - Chiputneti- 

 cook-Baskahegan. This 

 route, by far the most im- 

 portant between the two 

 river systems, has already 

 been described above un- 

 der 2 E and 3 A. 



B. — Aroostook — East Branch. 



Map No. 5. Portages from the St. John to the 

 Penobscot via the Baskahegan. 



This route ran through the Milnoket lakes to 

 the East Branch of Penobscot. It is marked on Hubbard. The Aroostook 

 is very easy of navigation. 

 C. — Allagash — Chesuncook. A much travelled and often described route ; 

 marked on Wilkinson, and marked and described by Hubbard. It formed 

 also a part of a route from the St. John to the Kennebec. There are other 

 routes between the Allagash and Penobscot, all of which are so fully treated 

 by Hubbard, and so much out of the geographical limits of the present 

 paper that no further reference is needed to them here. A modern route of 

 an unusual kind is a canal between Telos Lake on the Allagash and Webster 

 Pond on the Penobscot. 



' In Magazine of American History, XXVI., 264. 



