For the principal facts involved in the above statements, not duly credited already, I am indebted to Mr. A. W. Babcock, an intelligent gentleman and extensive operator on the Penobscot; also to Mr. E. Bartlett, of Augusta, whose zeal in furnishing answers to the various questions proposed for consideration has only been equaled by the degree of readiness which he has manifested to assist me; and to M. Springer, Esq., deputy collector of the customs for the port of Gardiner, Maine. STATISTICS OF LUMBER ON THE KENNEBECK. +-----------------------+---------------+-------------+---------+ | | |Average price| Total. | | | | per M. | | | | +-------------+---------| |No. of Saw-mills | 150. | | | |Amount of Long Lumber | 66,000,900. | $12.00. |$802,000.| |Amount of Laths | 17,000,000. | 1.00. | 17,000.| |Amount of Clap-boards | 4,000,000. | 15.00. | 60,000.| |Amount of Shingles | 26,000,500. | 2.50. | 66,250.| | | | |---------| | | | |$946,500.| |Probable number of men | | | | | employed |1,200 to 1,500.| | | |Probable number of Oxen| | | | | and Horses employed | 1,000. | | | +-----------------------+---------------+-------------+---------+ Taking leave of the beautiful Kennebeck, the flourishing villages which skirt its borders, and its rich, productive farms, spreading east and west, our attention is next arrested by the serpentine Androscoggin, with its vast water power. "From Merry-meeting Bay, into which it empties, to Lewiston Falls, it formerly went by the name of Peyepscook or Pyepscook, which means crooked, like a diving snake," strikingly expressive of the zigzag course of the stream, and the numerous pitches in its channel, giving it the appearance, or at least suggesting the idea, of the movements of a diving eel. The length of this river is set down at two hundred and fifty miles, though the distance, in a direct line from the point where it takes its rise to its mouth, does not probably exceed one hundred miles. It is this circumstance which gives it an opportunity to drain a large territory, and, though less numerously attended with tributary streams than either the Kennebeck or Penobscot, it is said to discharge more water during the year than either of the latter rivers.