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English and American products ; still, by common concurrence, 

 and not strictly in accordance with revenue regulations, it is 

 shipped indiscriminately. The manufacture of the English side 

 of the river is received on board American vessels and shipped 

 to the States, and the lumber manufactured on the American 

 side shipped on board English vessels and taken to the English 

 markets duty free. 



For the most part, the firms who conduct the lumbering busi- 

 ness on the St. Croix are of great respectability ; several of them 

 are very wealthy. 



The following tabled of estimates has been gathered from the 

 most reliable sources ; and, although mathematical exactness is 

 not pretended, still it is believed that the calculations here pre- 

 sented approach the truth sufficiently near to give the reader a 

 very satisfactory view of the extent of the lumbering operations 

 on the boundary river : 



Leaving the St. Croix, and traveling westward about forty 

 miles, we come to Basl Machiaa River, to the west of which, six 

 miles distant, is another river oalled West Biachias. The name 



* To the following gentlemen, viz., Messrs. Todd & Darling, J. M- Mister, 

 of St. Stephen's, and to W. Pike, Esq., p vorj L L. Lowell, 



i -•-lit li'iiifii of Calais, ] ;un nndrr last ini: obligation* for tho 



courteous and intelligent manner in which they responded to the various 

 questions proposed in Pre parin g the Statistic! lor the above table. 



