Hello fellow Berlinites. I would like to continue with a 120 year old story that I found about Berlin, sharing it with my readers.
The Androscoggin River, rising in the Rangeleys, furnishes the only outlet of that great chain of lakes and receives in addition to the drainage of its own large valley, that of the Magalloway, the Swift and Dead Diamond Rivers, Clear Stream and a large number of other streams through which are discharged the waters of numerous lakes and ponds.
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