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in a memorandum kept for the purpose. This course of man- 

 agement protects each log-owner's property from plunder, as, in 

 case any and all persons were indiscriminately allowed to raft 

 out logs, the temptation might prove too strong, in some cases, to 

 regard with due honesty logs bearing marks of a different char- 

 acter. Besides these main booms, there are many lesser ones, 

 up and down the river, subject to no special legislation or law 

 except the will of the owner. 



These observations relate chiefly to the Penobscot and St. Croix 

 Rivers. Of the rules and regulations of similar corporations on 

 other rivers I am uninformed, but it is to be presumed that they 

 are much the same, in general. 



CHAPTER III. 



Observations on the St. Croix River. — Boundary Line. — Pine Timber. — Ag- 

 riculture in the Interior. — Youthful Associations with Grand Lake. — Tradi- 

 tionary Name of Grand Lake. — Lake Che-pet-na-cook. — Rise of Eastern 

 Branch St. Croix. — Lumbering Prospects. — Hemlock. — Reciprocal Rela- 

 tions of the Lumber Trade between Americans and Provincials. — The 

 Machias Rivers. — Origin of Name. — Character of Soil. — Lumber Resources 

 and Statistics. — West Machias. — Narraguagues River, curious Definition 

 of — Capacity of Stream. — Statistics. — Union River — Observations on its 

 Lumbering Interests. — Mills in Franklin. 



Having in the foregoing pages given brief sketches of some of 

 the most interesting trees known to us, devoting considerable at- 

 tention to the White Pine, and the life and adventures of lum- 

 bermen, the concluding pages of this book will consist of brief 

 sketches of the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick, and such 

 statistics as to the extent of the lumbering operations on each 

 river as may interest the curious in such matters. 



