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fifty-five feet broad. Here the waters form a beautiful pool, and 

 then leap again, by a second fall of twenty feet, into another 

 larger and shallower reservoir, from which they descend gradu- 

 ally to Sawyer's Brook, running into Ellis River." 



Rumford Bridge, Androscoggin River. 



There are about sixty saw-mills on this river and its tributa- 

 ries, thirty-two of which are at Brunswick and Topsham ; about 

 two hundred shingle machines, most of which manufacture for 

 home consumption; ten only, or thereabouts, manufacture for 

 markets abroad, which cut about three hundred thousand to a 

 machine. Average price per M".,$2 75. Though there are I 

 to be fifty clap-board machines of some sort on the river, yet only 

 ''nine can be reckoned as manufacturing for market," " which, 

 owing to the scanty supply of timber, cu1 only aboul fifty 3f."to 

 a machine. Average price of clap-boards per ftf.,$22 50, There 

 are only nine lath machines, which, as is reported, for want of 

 material, cut only about two hundred and fifty thousand to a ma 



chine. Average price per flf., $1 18. 



