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The actual character of this part of the American line is an undulating country. On the line of Messrs. Featherstonhaugh and Mudge between the Metjarmette portage and the Cocumgamoc Mountains Feet The maximum elevation is 2,302 The minimum elevation is 987 This part of the line of Messrs.
The longitudes of Lake Megantic, Lake Etchemin, the source of the Metjarmette, upon the line of Captain Talcott, and of some one point on the line of Professor Renwick ought to be ascertained with greater precision than the time that could be allowed during the last season would permit. The instructions of Mr.
The highlands as claimed by the United States, extending from the northwesternmost head of the Connecticut River to the portage road which leads from the St. Lawrence River to Lake Temiscouata. The highlands as claimed by Great Britain from the Metjarmette portage to the source of the Aroostook River.
Returning from the latter point, they exhibit the aspect of well-marked ranges of mountains as far as the sources of the Metjarmette. Thence to the sources of the Etchemin extends an undulating country whose mean height is 1,300 or 1,500 feet above the level of the sea.
Odell's observations were not presented by the British agent, and those of Mr. Johnson were objected to. If received, they would have set aside the pretensions that a continuous ridge of mountains existed between the Metjarmette portage and Mars Hill.
The parties under the direction of A. Talcott entered upon their field duties about the middle of September, and completed that branch of the service by the 5th of November. During that period the following rivers and streams were surveyed: 1. The "main St. John River" from the mouth of the "Alleguash" to the Forks. The "Southwest Branch" to its source at the Metjarmette portage.
Featherstonhaugh and Mudge at that of the Aroostook Metjarmette portage is taken as the point of bifurcation, whence waters run to the Penobscot, the St. John, and the St. Lawrence. On the American line from the Metjarmette portage to Lake Etchemm Feet The maximum height is 1,718 The minimum height is 1,218
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