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dashing itself into foam as it chafes the rocky walls, produces an 

 effect full of grandeur." — Geological Reports. 



" In the distance of half a mile on the river, at this place 

 (Brunswick), we have forty-one feet fall (three dams across the 

 river), consequently the water may be used in this distance three 

 times." " By a survey made by the late Colonel Baldwin, the ca- 

 pacity of the Androscoggin is sufficient for carrying two hundred 

 thousand spindles." Numerous privileges of the same capacity 

 are of frequent occurrence. All that is requisite to make this 

 river the seat of the most extensive factory operations in the 

 world is capital, and from the superior water power here pre- 

 sented, it is fair to presume that the attention of capitalists may 

 ultimately lead to investments in manufacturing on a magnifi- 

 cent scale. 



At Livermore some incipient movements are making for the 

 erection of factories by a company. At Brunswick, a cotton fac- 

 tory, with four thousand six hundred spindles, is already in opera- 

 tion. 



In relation to the lumbering business on this river, the chief 

 object of attention in noticing this and the rivers already alluded 

 to, there are "from two to three million feet of lumber run down, 

 and about the same amount is purchased (in the log) on the 

 Kennebeck, and taken up through Merry-meeting Bay, and man- 

 ufactured at Brunswick yearly." 



" Five millions are manufactured into boards, and about one 

 million into clap-boards and shingles, &c. About one half of the 

 five millions manufactured into boards are shipped to Boston, 

 Mass., Providence and Fall River, R. I., and to the West Indies. 

 The remaining half are manufactured here into sugar-box shooks 

 for the Havana market." 



The mean or average price which lumber bears per M. here is 

 $14 30. The " resources for lumber on this river are very limit- 

 ed. The principal dealers are about leaving the business, though 



