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Several other rivulets, some of which are entirely dry during the summer, others 

 perennial spring-fed brooks but which have no names, flow into the lake at various 

 places. The importance of these little brooks is mainly that in the spring and early 

 summer young trout and other fishes occur in them. Three of these brooks were to 

 some extent studied and were given names for convenience in note making, and the 

 names have been used in this report and on the maps. Wildcat Brook is a hillside 

 brook of very small size that flows into the lake at the southern end a short distance 

 from Lakeside. It was full of water up to July 10 and entirely dry on July 14. Another 

 small brook, which contained some water throughout the summer, flows from some 

 springs in the open pasture back of the Lakeside House and empties into the lake at 

 the foot of the hill near Lakeside post office. It was named P. O. Brook. Thurstons 

 Brook, flowing into Thurstons Cove, has its source in Bullhead Pond. This pond derived 

 its name, not from the presence of the catfish of that name, but because it was by the 

 obstinate persistence of one of the party in following a certain direction that the pond 

 was found. It is a small, shallow, muddy, plant-grown pond with scarcely any rocks 

 visible about the shore and bushes growing to the water's edge. It is situated about 

 lyi or 2 miles from Thurstons Cove at a considerable elevation, so the brook is a purling 

 rivulet for most of its course. 



The Magalloway River system may be considered as practically tributary to Umba- 

 gog Lake, inasmuch as it discharges into the Androscoggin River above Errol Dam, not 

 far below the lake. 



Magalloway River is a much ramified and very sinuous stream, having its extreme 

 headwaters in the Boundary Mountains. Mention has already been made regarding the 

 contiguity of these sources and those of some of the branches of the upper waters of the 

 Connecticut River. The Magalloway drainage area is given by the Maine Water Storage 

 Commission report as 460 square miles. The greater part of the river is located in 

 Maine. It leaves the State for a short distance about 6 miles in a direct line from the 

 mouth of the river. It permanently leaves the State about 4^ ruiles in a direct line 

 from the mouth of the river, or a little over 4 miles in a direct line below Wilson's 

 mills. Its immediate source is in Parmacheenee Lake, the area of which is shown by the 

 Maine Water Storage Commission report to be 4.35 square miles. The most important 

 Maine tributaries are the Little Magalloway, Black Cat Brook, North Branch Brook, 

 Metallak Pond and Brook, Lincoln Pond and Brook, and Sturtevant Pond and Brook — 

 all below Parmacheenee Lake and noted as trout waters. The largest and most noted 

 tributary is the Diamond Stream, wholly in New Hampshire, which joins the Magallo- 

 way at its first point of departure from Maine. The upper course of the river below 

 Parmacheenee Lake for a comparatively short distance is quick water, thence to 

 Aziscohos Falls, some 13 miles in a direct line below Parmacheenee Lake, it is overflow, 

 produced by a dam at the falls. The area of the overflow prior to the completion of the 

 new Aziscohos Dam is stated to have been 6.5 square miles. This new concrete dam 

 has increased the flooded area to 10.5 square miles, making a storage reservoir about 

 14 miles long with a capacity of 8,000,000,000 cubic feet. Most of the course of the 

 river below Aziscohos Falls is smooth water and usually navigable by small steamboats 

 nearly to the mouth of Sturtevant Brook, about 3 miles in a direct line, but much more 

 by river, from the mouth. 



