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JJPTON, MAINE 
1871 
The country at Upton was for the most part covered by the 
primeval forest: this on high ground consisted of a growth of 
noble spruce trees interspersed with beech and white birch 
with occasionally poplars and maples. Swamps covered with a 
growth of white cedar were also frequent and in a few localities 
a second growth of firs and larch the favorite resort of Peris, 
tigrina and Hel, prigrina. The immense tracts of second growth 
birch so striking a feature in the scenery about the P'orks of 
the Kennebec, were here altogether wanting. Springs of ice cold 
water were everywhere to be found in the woods but the water of 
the streams and lakes all, that yellow cast, common to flowing 
water in Maine, and so different from the cristal clearness of 
the White mountain rivers. The shores of the lake have been 
periodically flowed for many years by dams at the different 
outlets, and the trees killed by an excess of water standing 
in immense forests of bare naked ''stubs” present a most curious 
and unique appearance and furnish a nesting home to multitudes 
of Hir. bicoloi’ which breed in the deserted Woodpecker holes 
and natural cavities. Several species -of Ducks also breed in 
the "stubs” as well as Quis. versicolor. The following is a 
list of the species we observed. 
