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OF

WILLIAM P. PARROTT.

REPORT.

To GEORGE W. COFFIN and LEVI BRADLEY, Esquires,

Land Agents of Massachusetts and Maine.

GENTLEMEN :-In accordance with your instructions I left Bangor on Tuesday, the twenty seventh of September, with necessary Assistants, and went to Moosehead Lake, in crossing which, we were delayed four days in consequence of strong north west winds, from thence I proceeded by the west branch of the Penobscot and Umbazookshus to the Chamberlain Lake, where we arrived on the third day of October.

Commencing at the outlet of Telos Lake the channel is shallow, and current for a short distance, to the dead water of the Telainis Lake; crossing this lake to its outlet, we found rather more current and a longer distance than at Telos, but still a very moderate fall to the bed of the river, to the level of the Chamberlain Lake; from the outlet of the Chamberlain Lake into the Heron Lake, is a distance of nearly one mile to the dead water, and rapid current broken by rocks and gravel bars. The outlet of Heron Lake is about three miles long, and is dead water, or nearly so, the whole distance, with low banks; in some parts of the channel the water is from fifteen to twenty feet deep. After passing through the outlet we came into a lake, which we crossed in a northeasterly direction about three miles to its outlet, which we found quite deep, and nearly dead water, widening into a small pond at the head of the rapids, which point is marked station 61.

The fall from the level of the Telos Lake to the level of the Chamberlain Lake, as determined from the high water marks at both lakes, was 0.83 feet.

The fall from the level of Chamberlain Lake to Heron Lake was

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