RIVER SYSTEMS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



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steamboat to that point, and the waters of the Magalloway are made to 

 contribute to the reservoir storage of the lake. 



Almost the entire area drained by the range of lakes and the Magallo- 

 way is unbroken forest, which also covers nine tenths of this basin south- 

 ward in New Hampshire. 



Table of Heights of Androscoggin River. 



Magalloway lake, 



Parmachena lake, 3 square miles, 



Umbagog lake, .... 



At head of Berlin falls. 



At Maine line, .... 



Tributaries of Androscoggin River. 



Saco River System. 



The area drained by this system in New Hampshire is about 850 

 square miles, or one eleventh of the state. 



The distance in a straight line from the head of the Saco beyond the 

 White Mountain notch to its point of crossing the Maine line is about 

 twenty-five miles, the direction being nearly south-east. Following the 

 course of the river, this distance is about thirty-four miles. The first 

 eleven miles it runs a little east of south, with high mountains bending 

 in steep and gracefully curved slopes to form its valley. The next nine 

 miles extend nearly east, through the level intervals of Bartlett to the 



