. The Maine central. A journal of travel . YARD OF THENEW ENGLAND CO. Light, the roughest waterson the Maine coast. Thereis often a turmoil of thesea about the little island,which lies at the mouthof the Kennebec, but amile off-shore, and bearsSeguin Light, marker forthe mouth of the Ken-nebec. Here receediugtides from the river for of the bHWAi^L, atiif ■■siiEiNAMjo.\H. the tides of the Atlantic ocean rise and fall in the Kennebec as far as the dam at Augusta,fifty miles above is mouth, meet the rollers from the Atlantic in contending fury. In spiteof the encroachment of the sea, the
. The Maine central. A journal of travel . YARD OF THENEW ENGLAND CO. Light, the roughest waterson the Maine coast. Thereis often a turmoil of thesea about the little island,which lies at the mouthof the Kennebec, but amile off-shore, and bearsSeguin Light, marker forthe mouth of the Ken-nebec. Here receediugtides from the river for of the bHWAi^L, atiif ■■siiEiNAMjo.\H. the tides of the Atlantic ocean rise and fall in the Kennebec as far as the dam at Augusta,fifty miles above is mouth, meet the rollers from the Atlantic in contending fury. In spiteof the encroachment of the sea, the waters of the Kennebec are fresh to about fifteen milesfrom the rivers mouth and so pure that the ice taken therefrom has become world-famousfor its quality. In the Spring, after the ice has broken up and has been hurried by the current out tosea, come many great vessels seeking cargoes of the frozen product of the Kennebec. Phila-delphia, Baltimore and Washington companies each have mammoth houses on the riverbanks. About one thousa
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