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damming a tributary stream just above its point of entry into 

 the river, in that part of the town called "the Meadows," 

 and the other in the portion bearing the name of Riverton. 

 Israel's River rises on Mounts Adams and Jefferson of the 

 Presidential Range and receives countless mountain brooks 

 along its course. Chief of these are the South Branch and the 

 Great Brook. Kastward is the scattered town of Randolph 

 between the Presidential and Randolph Ranges in the narrow 

 valley of the Moose River, which flows into the Androscoggin 

 at Gorham. Westward the country opens out over hills to 

 Carroll in the valley of the lyOwer Ammonoosuc, to Whitefield 

 by John's River, and to lyancaster, which is in the valley of the 

 Connecticut, at little more than half the elevation of Jefferson 

 Highland, namely, 870 feet. 



One rather large pond lies within the territory of Jefferson, 

 in the west portion, Cherry Pond, at the foot of Cherry 

 Mountain. This pond is two miles or more in circumference. 

 It is muddy-bottomed ; the surface is much covered with growth 

 of pickerel weed, yellow lilies, sagittaria, and other aquatic 

 plants, and it is bordered by cat-tails, grasses and sedges. This 

 pond was formerly surrounded by forest, but now lines of rail- 

 way extend rather closely on two sides of it, and on the other 

 sides stand mostly second-growth woods with scarcely any large 

 timber remaining. As indicating, however, the still secluded 

 location of this pond, I may mention that on several occasions, 

 when we have been upon its waters, deer have been seen on its 

 shores, and that on a day in late August in 19 10 a doe with her 

 two white-spotted fawns came out of the woodland and waded 

 in the tall grasses along the shore. They remained in sight ten 

 minutes or more, while we had quietly paddled to within twenty 

 rods of them. 



Near Cherry Pond, and fed from it by an outlet stream, is 

 Little Cherry Pond, having scarcely more than an eighth of the 

 area of Cherry Pond. This pond is also bordered and overgrown 

 with aquatic plants, including the white water-lily. An extent 

 of tamarack swamp surrounds lyittle Cherry Pond. Much 



