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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 E.iver." 



Kuinioid Bridge, AndroSco-yui llivt-r. 



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 said 

 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, cut only about fifty M." to 

 a machine. Average price of clap-boards per ikf., $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 ilf., $1 18. • : 



