CHAPTER II 



VALLEY OF THE ST. CROIX 



THE St. Croix river — the natural valley of which 

 Mr. Boardman did so much to develop, in which 

 his great business abilities were so long employed for 

 its advantage and the fauna of which he made so well 

 known to the scientific world — forms the boundary 

 between the province of New Brunswick, Dominion of 

 Canada and the United States, from a point just south 

 of latitude 46 degrees north to the bay of Fundy into 

 which its waters discharge. At Quoddy Head the 

 United States reaches its farthest eastern limit and the 

 St. Croix system is the most southeastern river system 

 in the State of Maine. The area drained by the river 

 St. Croix and its affluent lake systems is 70 miles long 

 by 50 miles broad, having a total surface of 1175 square 

 miles, 800 of which are in the State of Maine and 375 

 are in the province of New Brunswick. The St. Croix 

 is formed by two branches, the lower of which receives 

 the waters of the Grand lakes and the upper of which 

 receives those of the Schoodic lakes — the connecting 

 rivers being wide and voluminous. In the St. Croix 

 system are 183 streams and 61 lakes represented upon 



