Guide book to the Megantic, Spider, and upper Dead river regions of the province of Quebec and state of Maine .. . RUSH DILATATION of the LowGr Spider River, with a bordering marsh or bog, formsRush Lake, so named from the reeds and rushes growing all over it. It isquite a large body of water in the springtime, covering an area of a mile inlength, and from a quarter to a half mile in breadth. It is fed by the RapidSpider River, which empties Spider Lake some three-quarters of a miledistant, and by a couple of other small streams. It is situated about a milefrom Lake Megautie, and is emp


Guide book to the Megantic, Spider, and upper Dead river regions of the province of Quebec and state of Maine .. . RUSH DILATATION of the LowGr Spider River, with a bordering marsh or bog, formsRush Lake, so named from the reeds and rushes growing all over it. It isquite a large body of water in the springtime, covering an area of a mile inlength, and from a quarter to a half mile in breadth. It is fed by the RapidSpider River, which empties Spider Lake some three-quarters of a miledistant, and by a couple of other small streams. It is situated about a milefrom Lake Megautie, and is emptied by the Lower Spider River, which, afterbeing joined by the Arnold River a few rods from the outlet of Rush Lake,flows into Lake Megantic. During the summer months, particularly in a dry season, the entire lake,except the channel, is boggy, all the water thickly covered with lily-pads, interspersed with tall reedsand rushes,, the banks containing alder bushes, while here and there are arms and inlets forming bogs,some nearly a mile long, through which a boat can be pushed. It is in these bogs that so many deerand moo


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