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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 vi^ealthy. 



The following table* 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 eztc?it of the lumbering operations 

 on the boundary river : 



Leaving the St. Croix, and traveling westward about forty 

 miles, we come to East Machias River, to the west of which, six 

 miles distant, is another river called West Machias. The name 



* To the following gentlemen, viz., Messrs. Todd & Darling, .T. M'Alister, 

 Esq., of St. Stephen's, and to W. Pike, Esq., port surveyor; L. L. Lowell, 

 Esq., and other gentlemen of Calais, I am under lasting obligations for the 

 courteous and intelligent manner in which they responded to the various 

 questions proposed in preparing the statistics for the above table. 



