Summer days down East . THE RANGELEY LAKES. THE LOWER ANDROSCOGGIN HE railroad line that runs from tide-water toward the Range-ley Lakes begins at Bath, and runs thence by Brunswick andLeeds to Farmington, a distance of seventy-two miles. Itwas built under the names of the Androscoggin Railroad,and the Leeds and Farmington Railroad, and now forms a divis-^^ ion of the Maine Central line. The chief point on this route isLisbon Falls, a right busy manufacturing village, with the great VVo-rumbo woollen mills, and other industrial hives. Here is another for-midable cascade on the Androsc
Summer days down East . THE RANGELEY LAKES. THE LOWER ANDROSCOGGIN HE railroad line that runs from tide-water toward the Range-ley Lakes begins at Bath, and runs thence by Brunswick andLeeds to Farmington, a distance of seventy-two miles. Itwas built under the names of the Androscoggin Railroad,and the Leeds and Farmington Railroad, and now forms a divis-^^ ion of the Maine Central line. The chief point on this route isLisbon Falls, a right busy manufacturing village, with the great VVo-rumbo woollen mills, and other industrial hives. Here is another for-midable cascade on the Androscoggin, where the Indians found manyfish, and doubtless enjoyed life in their grim way. As early as the year1650 Thomas Purchas established a fish-house here, and sent hence toLondon many a snug little cargo of smoked salmon. Near this point,six miles above the falls, was the chief village and capital of Sebenoa,the wise sachem of the Indian tribe which occupied the lower Andros-coggin valley, and hither (in 1607) came Capt. Gilbert, nephew ofthe Lord Chief Justice of Eng
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