A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . e-coaches run daily. An ex-tensive trade in lumber is carried on atBangor. The distance from the sea, at 1 Owls Head point, is thirty miles. , The spot now occupied by the townwas in a wilderness only about fifty I years ago. The region above, lying inthe valley of the Penobscot, and natu-_rally tributary to Bangor, is an area of ? nine thousand square miles. The wa-ter-power is abundant, and applicable toa great variety of machinery. Thereare few places in the Union which pos-sess greater advantages of this lumber-trade, whi
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . e-coaches run daily. An ex-tensive trade in lumber is carried on atBangor. The distance from the sea, at 1 Owls Head point, is thirty miles. , The spot now occupied by the townwas in a wilderness only about fifty I years ago. The region above, lying inthe valley of the Penobscot, and natu-_rally tributary to Bangor, is an area of ? nine thousand square miles. The wa-ter-power is abundant, and applicable toa great variety of machinery. Thereare few places in the Union which pos-sess greater advantages of this lumber-trade, which has formed thechief source of business and prosperity,must necessarily decrease; but the clear-ing of the land will as naturally be ac-companied with the extension of agri-culture and the increase of its morevaluable products, which will of courseseek their vent through this town. Nav-ioration is active durino the summer-sea-son, and much transportation is per-formed in the winter in sleighs. Thesoil in the. neighborhood is good forbrickmaking o -ao. 30 rp:scRiPTiON OF thh: state of maine. Bangor, on account of its rapid growth,as well as its important position, and thebeauty of its situation, is the place ofthe greatest note in the interior of thestate. The Kenduskeag enters the Pe-nobscot nearly at right-angles, dividingthe town into two parts, and diversify-ing the surface in the environs with highand picturesque banks. The town ap-pears to great advantage on approach- jing it from down the valley of the Pe-nobscot, as it is gradually disclosed toview, displaying its numerous clustersof houses spread np the rising grounds jand over the more level surface on thesummit of the bank. On the northwestside of the town the eminence commands |an extensive and charming view. Mount \Katahdin appearing in the distance, in iclear weather, though more than seventy jmiles off, its head often capped with :snow. j Judtre Williamsons History of Maineinforms us, that the first settlement w
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