of the pond about three feet. An area 

 more than a mile long and a quarter 

 mile wide was now flooded. A swamp 

 at the upper end was entirely covered 

 and afforded water transportation from 

 a large grove of poplar trees, which 

 without the dam could not have been 

 reached. Five years later, on the shores 

 of this pond, the beavers had completely 

 cleared of trees more than ten acres of 

 ground. At this time four beaver houses 

 were observed on the shore and on 

 islands in Mud Pond. 



When three years old, the children 

 of the Chief Engineer left the parental 

 homestead, mated with relatives in 

 other colonies and set up house building 

 and house keeping on their own account. 

 Some of them, doubtless, located many 

 miles away, others we know built 

 dams and houses on streams emptying 

 into Cherry Pond. 



One summer Bige and I were trout 

 fishing on West Bay Brook. We worked 

 up stream about four miles from its 



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