Identifier: progressofunited00fishuoft (find matches)
Title: The progress of the United States of America, from the earliest periods, geographical, statistical, and historical
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Fisher, Richard Swainson
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York, Colton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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5 55 Fort Fairfield, (uppei e) 46 46 07 — Pohenagamook Lake (monument at nutlet) 47 27 33 69 13 19 Fort Fairfield, l house) — 67 49 42 Pohenagamook Lake^head of) 47 3139 69 17 31 Fort Kent (block-house) 4T 15 0U 6s 35 25 Saddleback Mountain _. 45 20 56 71 01 13 Hancock Barracks (flag staff) 46 07 39 07 49 00 St. Croix River (monument at source) 4-> 56 37 67 47 00 Head of L. Black Rapids (St. John River) 47 0>30 69 08 34 St. Francis R. (Hammonds Barn near mth of) 47 10 57 68 53 59 Head of Connecticut Kiver 45 14 58 71 12 57 Taschercajs House 45 48 37 70 2 4 10 Honlton (hotel) 46 07 28 .... 67 49 25 fThe Isles of Shoalsare seven in number, viz., Hog, Smutty Nose. Star, Duck, White, Malaga, and LondonnerIslands. The three first consu-late the town of Gossport, -V Hamp., an 1 the four latter the town of Isles of Shoals, Me. They were i died Smiths Islands, having beendiscovered by the celebrated John Smith in 1614. The present population is 132—in N. Hamp. 10J, and in M lii126
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Ml THE STATE OF MAINE. below which it has a fall of 50 feet It receives the eastern or Seboois branch formed by confluents coming from thesame tract which sends off the Aroostook to the north. The Mattawamkeag and the Piscataquis, its principal tributa-ries, then come in from opposite sides, and at Orono the river falls about 50 or GO feet to the tide level. The tides atBangor, GO miles from the sea, and 30 from Belfast. Bay, rise 15 feet, and the river is navigable for the largest vesselsto that place, but navigation is closed four or five months in the year by ice. The total length of its course is about350 miles. The Kennebec preserves a remarkable parallelism with the Penobscot, but drains a less extent of country.Its head stream, the Moose, rising in the highlands, from which issue the south-eastern branches of the Chaudiere,flows east into Moosehead Lake, the outlet of which takes the name of Kennebec, and runs south to the sea. It isbroken at Embden by the Carratuck Falls; at t

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