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��thousand six hundred and twenty feet above the ocean. It is nearly five miles long and three miles wide, and the scenery on every side is grand and im- pressive. Capt. C. O. Reed has built and navigates a steam boat upon its waters for the accommodation of visitors.

The Lake House, H. M. and H, W. Smith, proprietors, is one of the best kept houses in the State, and under their efficient management has become a very desirable summer resort. Parties who have visited the lake for a stay of a few days have stopped weeks ; the ladies finding a restful quiet retreat amidst beautiful scenes, while the men have found inexhaustible sport on the brooks and streams which flow in the neighborhood and in the shades of the old forest on the mountain and lake sides.

The Connecticut Lumber Company own some one hundred and twenty-five thousand acres of wood land in the vicinity. Through the winter they employ from eight hundred to one thousand men in the woods, run down in the spring from forty-five to sixty million feet of timber, giving employment to a large pro- portion of their winter force as river drivers. There is a camp at the second lake for the benefit of visiting sportsmen, under the management of the pro- prietors of the Lake House.

���From David Blanchard, of Pittsburg, we receive the following sketch :

"The town of Pittsburg, N. H., which prior to its incorporation, in 1843, was known as the Indian Stream Territory, forms the extreme northern portion of the state, lying north of the 45th parallel of north latitude, and is a portion ot the tract claimed respectively by the governments of Great Britain and the United States ; the question of jurisdiction being settled by the Webster and Ashburton treaty, in 1842.

"It is bounded westerly and northerly by the Province of Quebec, easterly by Maine, and southerly by Gilmanton and Atkinson Academy grants, the Con- necticut river and the parallel ot 45" north, which, westerly of the river, sepa- rates it from ('anaan, Vt.

" It is in its greatest extent, east and west, about twenty-five miles long ; north and south, abjut filtcen miles wide ; having an area of about three hun- dred sijuare miles ; its boundary on the north following the irregular course ot the highlands or water-shed between the waters of the Connecticut and the Androscoggin on the south and the St. Lawrence on the north.

"About the year 1790, some twelve or fifteen hardy pioneers from Grafton County, attracted by the marvellous stories told by two explorers who had fol-

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