Androscoggin

[ an-druh-skog-in ]

/ ˌæn drəˈskɒg ɪn /

a river flowing from NE New Hampshire through SW Maine into the Kennebec River. 171 miles (275 km) long.

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

If the falls even of the Androscoggin at good old Brunswick were in Europe, they would be quite a 'lion' in their way.
The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 5, November 1837|Various
The new plant on the Androscoggin is designed to deliver 10,000 horse-power for electrical supply in Lewiston, Me.
Electric Transmission of Water Power|Alton D. Adams
The larger part of the stock used by the mill consists of poplar logs floated down the Androscoggin and its tributaries.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882|Various
Androscoggin, the main western source of the river Kennebec, in Maine.
The Indian in his Wigwam|Henry R. Schoolcraft

Toward evening we struck the river, and found it rasping and crackling over rocks as an Androscoggin should.
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862|Various