CHAPTER XV. 



PARMACHENEE LAKE. 



HE Magalloway River is one of the 

 tributaries of the Androscoggin, 

 with which it unites a few miles 

 below its outlet from Umbagog 

 Lake. 



Although a considerable river of something like 

 one hundred miles in length, and to be found on 

 all modern maps of Maine, it is evidently not a 

 school river, as I ascertained one day when I asked 

 four Boston schoolgirls what they knew about it. 



It rises in Canada, and flows through mountain 

 gorges, and beautiful meadows, now rushing with 

 mighty swiftness through rocky passes, and as 

 silently flowing among the dark shadows of mighty 

 forests. 



It is a very crooked river. One of our guides 

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