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The Magalloway, soon after it enters the state of Maine, forms one of 

 the peculiar streams in this northern country. It flows for a time with 



Fig. 42. VIEW ON THE UPPER MAGALLOWAY. 



a rapid current, and then for a long distance it is the most sluggish 

 of streams, often deeper than it is wide, while on either side there are 

 numerous ponds or bogs. Parmachena lake, into which it flows, is about 

 the size of Connecticut lake. For four miles below Parmachena the 

 stream is very rapid, and then, for almost the entire distance to Escahos 

 falls, the descent is slight. Upper Magalloway settlement lies above the 

 falls. The Magalloway enters New Hampshire in Dartmouth College 

 grant. It flows about a mile, and then goes into Maine, but enters New 

 Hampshire again in the north-east corner of Wentworth s Location, and 

 flows into the Androscoggin a mile and a quarter from Umbagog lake. 

 Although the river is very crooked, yet the water is of sufficient depth 

 so that a steamer runs up nearly to the Maine line. The steamer runs 

 down the Androscoggin to Errol dam: below this the Androscoggin is 

 for the most part quite rapid, and, in the sixty-six miles of this river in 

 New Hampshire, the fall is 464 feet. The tributaries of the Magalloway 

 and- Androscoggin from New Hampshire are the Little Magalloway, four 

 and a half miles south of Parmachena lake, and the Swift Diamond, which 

 has its source in the Diamond ponds in Stewartstown, and has a tribu 

 tary, the Dead Diamond, which rises two and a half miles south-east of 

 Second lake, and flows into the Swift Diamond a mile and a half from its 

 confluence with the Magalloway in Dartmouth College grant. Clear 

 stream flows into the Androscoggin in Errol. In Gorham the tributaries 

 are Moose and Peabody rivers, the latter of which rises in the Great Gulf 

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