. New England; a human interest geographical reader. Henry W. Longfellow Maine Places, Industries, and People 359 and iron by sea, and lumber from the Androscogginand Kennebec rivers. The vessels that are launchedfrom the Bath shipyards vary greatly in size and are both wooden and steel, and include barges,schooners, steamers, and even warships. Bangor on the Penobscot is the most notable lumbercentre in New England. It gets water power fromfalls, logs can be floated to it direct from the forests,and the river below is navigable for ocean-going ves-sels, so that the lumber can be sen
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. Henry W. Longfellow Maine Places, Industries, and People 359 and iron by sea, and lumber from the Androscogginand Kennebec rivers. The vessels that are launchedfrom the Bath shipyards vary greatly in size and are both wooden and steel, and include barges,schooners, steamers, and even warships. Bangor on the Penobscot is the most notable lumbercentre in New England. It gets water power fromfalls, logs can be floated to it direct from the forests,and the river below is navigable for ocean-going ves-sels, so that the lumber can be sent away to Q) KalkhoJT Co,. N. Y. Grand Falls on Dead River Augusta, the capital of the state, is the largest cityon the Kennebec. It is like Bangor in having water-power and being at the head of ship navigation. 360 New England The Kennebec and the Penobscot produce wealth inwinter as well as in summer, for they are an imiportantsource of ice supply. When you pass up beyondwhere the salt water penetrates you find at frequentintervals the big wide-spreading buildings in which theice is stored. Maine winters are cold enough to make the crop atolerably sure one, and the ice is cut over the very spotswhere the ocean vessels moor the next summer to takeon loads of it which they carry to cities on the coastfarther south. The ice harvested from the twenty-fivemiles of the Kennebec below Augusta is worth twoor three milHon dollars a year. As soon as the ice is strong enough to bear theweight of a man, claims are marked out by setting upbushes or stakes. A few days later the ice is usuallythick enough t
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