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Cupsuptic Pond is a small body of 0.30 square mile area at the extreme headwaters 

 of Cupsuptic River near the boundary line between Maine and Quebec. Cupsuptic 

 River, receiving many branches in its course, some of which rise in the Boundary 

 Mountains, flows southward through three townships, or about 17 miles in a direct line, 

 to Cupsuptic Lake. Cupsuptic Pond is not far from the head of the lower east branch 

 of the main inlet of Parmacheenee Lake, but. a rather large mountain intervenes. Par- 

 macheenee Lake is only about 4 miles in a direct line from the Cupsuptic River, but the 

 intervening country is mountainous. 



Kennebago River has its extreme source in the Seven Ponds, the larger of the 

 group being in township 3, range 5. The principal pond, shown on the maps as Big 

 Island Pond, of 1.20 square miles area, is in the northeast comer of the township. It 

 flows into Long Pond, or the Straits, situated in about the center of the township. 

 Into Long Pond sevesal tributary streams from other ponds converge. The extreme 

 headwaters of some of these streams are in close proximity to the headwaters of Arnold 

 River, which flows into Lake Megantic in the Province of Quebec and is a tributary of 

 the St. Lawrence River. The Boundary Mountains form a separation. Another of 

 the branches heads in a small pond not over three-fourths of a mile in a direct line 

 from a small pond in the extreme headwaters of Dead River, a tributary of the Kennebec 

 system. There is naturally a topographical division between the two waters, but it 

 is not nearly so marked as in the Boundary Mountains. Long Pond, or the Straits, 

 is approximately 18 miles in a straight course to the junction of the Kennebago River 

 and Rangeley Stream. Keimebago River flows very irregularly in a southward direc- 

 tion and in its lower portion is especially sinuous. About 10 miles directly northward 

 of the junction with Rangeley Stream is Kennebago Lake, situated a little to the left 

 of and connected with the Kennebago River by a short outlet. Little Kennebago 

 Lake is not far north of this in the course of the river and has an area of 0.26 square 

 mile. 



Kennebago Lake is situated mainly in Township 3, range 3. It is stated that the 

 distance from the dam at the outlet to Indian Rock at the mouth of Kennebago River 

 is 12.3 miles, and the elevation of the lake at average low water is 1,774 f^^t, or 327.7 

 feet above the sill of the gate at Upper Dam. The lake is approximately 4% rniles long, 

 with a greatest width of less than i mile. Its area is stated by the Maine Water Storage 

 Commission report to be 2.74 square miles at low water, and 4.13 square miles at high- 

 water line. In most of its extent the lake carries 20 to 50 feet close to low-water line, 

 and in the deeper portions 60 to over 100 feet, having a storage capacity at low water 

 of 350,828,000 gallons. The lake lies approximately in a southeasterly and north- 

 westerly direction. In the southeastern half the shores are mainly comparatively high 

 and the water bold; in the other half there is considerable low land that is flooded at 

 high water, and even Little Kennebago Lake is flooded out by the high water of this lake. 



Bemis Brook rises from two branches, one of which heads in Four Ponds. The 

 largest and lowermost of the ponds is about 2X miles in a direct line from Bemis at the 

 southern end of Mooselucmaguntic Lake. Four Ponds, as is also the head of the other 

 branch of Bemis Brook, are very close to headwaters of branches of Swift River, a 

 tributary of the Androscoggin, and a pond at the head of Swift River, is shown on the 

 maps as not over one-half of a mile distant from a pond at the head of a branch of Sandy 

 River, but in a very hiUy country. 



