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RIVER LIFE. 



ance of a river running back to its source. The Androscoggin 

 rises from the western side of the lake, and here is a sluggish 

 stream, with low, grassy banks five feet high, covered with scat- 

 tering swamp Maple-trees." " The Megalloway River is ex- 

 tremely serpentine and wild in its course, winding its way amid 

 high mountains, while its banks are composed of sandy loam, 

 covered thickly with Maple-trees." 



" The Umbagog Lake is an irregular, shallow sheet of water, 

 with grassy and boggy shores, and is surrounded by lofty mount- 

 ains of granite, which in September are clothed with the red 

 and yellow foliage of Maple and Birch trees, the former greatly 

 predominating, and covering the mountains to their very sum- 

 mits." Among other objects of romantic interest are " Frye's 

 Falls, in Andover Surplus," upon Frye's Stream, so called. " This 



Frye's Falls, on a tributorj- of Ellis River. 



stream rushes over a precipitous mass of granite, gneiss, and mica 

 slate rocks, precipitating itself by a fall of twenty-five feet into a 

 rocky basin below. The chasm is fifteen feet wide, and the basin 



