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In order to find mountains to form a part of it they are compelled to go south of the source of branches of the Penobscot; thence from mountains long well known, at the sources of the Alleguash, well laid down on the rejected map of Mr. Johnson, it becomes entangled in the stream of the Aroostook, which it crosses more than once. In neither part does it divide waters at all.
Croix, and finally of the Alleguash from its mouth to its source. The Little Madawaska was ascended in bateaux from its mouth to its source, which is found in the Madawaska Lakes, and a trace of the river was made by coursing with a compass and estimating the distances, which were checked by astronomical observations for latitude and longitude.
This survey was afterwards extended eastward to the Grand Falls, in order to connect with the astronomical station established there, and westward to the mouth of the Alleguash, embracing a distance of 87 miles. The islands were all surveyed, and the channels on either side of them sounded.
A survey of the portion of Fish River included between the outlet of Lake Winthrop and the river St. John. A survey of the river St. John between the Grand Falls and the mouth of the Alleguash. A survey of the Alleguash from its mouth to its source. A survey of the river St. Francis from its mouth to the outlet of Lake St. Francis.
All the principal heads or branches of the Connecticut River north of the forty-fifth degree of latitude. The St. John and all its principal branches or tributaries west of the Alleguash River. The division under the direction of Major Graham has been employed during the past season in making the following surveys, viz: 1. In prolonging the meridian of the monument at the source of the river St.
This character of a table-land deeply cut by streams is well exhibited in the section of their "axis of maximum elevation" by the British commissioners. In that will be seen the mountains near the source of the Aroostook, Alleguash, and Penobscot on the one hand, and of the Tobique on the other, while the intervening space is occupied by a curve resembling an inverted arch, of which the St.
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.
John at a point 2 miles below the upper chapel of the Madawaska settlement, by a chained and coursed line following the portage represented on the map 5-1/6 miles long. The Alleguash was ascended in the month of October in bateaux and canoes from its mouth to its source in Lake Telos, a distance of about 94 miles.
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