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RIVER LIFE. 



Throwing the whole, then, into a tabular form, we have pre- 

 sented for our inspection the results of the lumbering operations 

 on the Androscoggin, for the market, as follows : 



There is also a small amount of lumber manufactured on the 

 Presumpscot, a small river about fifty miles long, if we include 

 Sebago Pond as a connecting link between Presumpscot Proper 

 and the continuation of the inlet stream, which takes its rise 

 about twenty miles east of the White Mountains in New Hamp- 

 shire, running southwest, and finally emptying into Casco Bay, a 

 few miles north of Portland. 



" There are said to be seventeen falls of water on this river 

 within twenty miles of Portland, each affording a good site for 

 mills, and a sufficient volume of water on each pitch to carry 

 eight hundred looms, together with all other needed machinery 

 for such purposes." " Sebago Lake is a thoroughfare and feed- 

 er of the Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and there are between 

 the lake and the sea twenty-six locks of nearly ten feet each, 

 making the fall equal to two hundred and fifty-five feet." The 

 fountains of this river are so springy that " the water never freezes 

 so as to prevent or impede operations," nor are they troubled with 

 droughts ; the current is ever-living. 



At Sacarappa, on the Presumpscot, there arc six saws for long 

 lumber, two shingle and two lath machines. At Great Falls 



