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Skowhegan Falls, on the Kcimcbeck. 



At Norridgewock the Kennebeck plunges about ten feet over 

 Ledges of hard argillaceous slate, which constitute another step 

 in the series of pitches over which the river passes, seeking its 

 home and level in the bosom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nau-lau- 

 chu-wak is said to be the original and true Indian orthography, 

 the sense of which is this : these falls, or this place, is the only 

 obst ruction to navigation. 



At Caritunk Falls, still further up river, and half a mile from 

 Solon village, " the Kennebeck dashes oyer hard quartz cook and 

 mica slate Ledges, which ran northeast, southwest, and dip north- 

 wesi i'"'. Measured barometrically , the fall is bu I per* 



pendicular, but is said sometimes to be upward of tw 

 The gorge through which the water passes is fifty feet."* 



The Lumbering inter itson the Kennebeck still hold a mai I 

 prominence. 



There is reported OH this river and its tributaries, from Bath 

 * Geological Reports of .Maine. 



