RIVER LIFE. 



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agricultural industry and wealth which now beautify, enrich, 

 and enliven the banks of the Kennebeck. 



A Coaster ascending the Penobscot for Lumber. 



This river, on many accounts, is the most important in Maine, 

 and at present, from its vast lumbering resources and operations, 

 the most noted. It is three hundred and fifty miles long, with 

 numerous, and, in some instances, copious branches, which drain 

 an immense uncultivated territory, embracing a region of country 

 from east to west about one hundred and fifty miles in breadth, 

 spanning the whole of the northern portion of the state, running 

 round and cutting off' the head waters of the St. Croix on the 

 east, and of the Kennebeck on the west, interlacing its numerous 

 branches with those of the St. John's River in the north, which 

 brings within its embrace about one third the entire wilderness 

 territory of Maine. 



The scenery in some sections of this territory, about the head 

 waters, is grand and picturesque. Its numerous water-falls, some 

 of which are fearful to contemplate, much more for the river- 



