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deciduous forests, with their brilliant, gorgeous colors, the dark bands of 

 the evergreens, and the snow-white summits. The water at the outlet 

 flows over a rocky barrier, the stream falling abruptly nearly thirty-seven 

 feet. The fall is quite rapid for two miles and a half: then the flow is 

 more gentle for about four miles : then it becomes more rapid again, and 

 continues thus until after it passes West Stewartstown. It is then 

 nowhere a sluggish stream, and has rapids in many places until it gets 

 below the falls of Northumberland : then it is the most placid of streanis 

 until it reaches the Fifteen-mile falls, which begin in Dalton. The fall 

 from Connecticut lake to Lancaster is 785 feet. In New Hampshire, 

 below Connecticut lake, the Connecticut river receives three large tribu- 

 taries, — Perry's stream, which rises near Third lake, and has a rapid 

 descent, including two falls three and five miles from its confluence, a 

 mile and a half from the lake ; Indian stream, which rises on the bound- 

 ary, has a very rapid descent for five or six miles, when it is a very quiet 

 stream until it flows into the Connecticut about eleven miles from the 

 lake ; Hall's stream, which rises also on the boundary, and is the dividing 

 line between New Hampshire and Quebec province. Besides these there 

 are several smaller streams. The principal streams from the east are 

 Cedar stream in Pittsburg, Labrador brook and Dead Water stream in 

 Clarksville, the Mohawk in Colebrook, Sims stream and Lyman brook in 

 Columbia, Bog brook in Stratford, the Upper Ammonoosuc in Northum- 

 berland, Israel's river in Lancaster, and John's river in Dalton. 



The Magalloway has its principal source in Lake Magalloway, about a 

 mile and a half south-west of Crown monument. This lake is one of the 

 most romantic in New Hampshire. It has an elevation of 2,225 f^^t 

 above the sea. Its area is not far from from 320 square acres, and is 

 surrounded by hills that rise to mountain heights, the elevation on the 

 north-east being 587 feet above the lake, and from its summit we look 

 immediately down upon it. The stream which is its outlet forms, a 

 few steps from the lake, a beautiful cascade some twenty feet in height. 

 Of all the men who have hunted in these forests, I have found only one 

 who has ever seen this lake. If it were within the reach of travel, it 

 would no doubt attract many persons, for in wildness and grandeur it is 

 not surpassed. Its outlet is soon augmented by streams both from New 

 Hampshire and Maine. 



