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Dear Mrs. Eckstrom, The pros [underlined] and cons [underlined] have been passing so rapidly that continuity has been mixed. I wrote the enclosed letter before I got your later concession to my "[?]" theory, and I send it on, as if nothing had happened, particularly as it calls your attention to an oversight of yours in mixing your two rivers. My very best appreciation for your willingness to see the topographical requisites for grammatical description. There is no doubt that the Agamenticus runs UP to [?] two miles of the largest mountain (?) in that region, but whether it would [help?] to name the tidal stream is a question. It would apply equally to Cape Neddic River which actually begins at the foot of the mountain. I am still wobbling on the word "river" which you keep in your orthography. I seriously question whether an Indian would call that kind of a water course a "river." If he saw the current [rushing?] up [underlined] to the head of it as it does today at flood he wouldn't know whether he was going home or coming back from a clam feast. Then if he saw it running down [underlined] the same day he might wonder if he were going to Norumbega or Piscataqua. I think that natural feature must be held of first importance, I know of no stream like it in western Maine - a tidal "river"