. Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine . ream by perpendicularlogs, the lower ends being driven into the mud, and the uppermortised into thecross-timbers. Theconstruction wasnovel, and I shouldjudge original. At the mouth ofBottle Brook stooda rude log cabin,noted as being the first house seenin ascending the river, and also asonce having been the residence ofan old Indian squaw, who had ayoung white husband, a fellow probably with more stomach than being rocky off the mouth of the brook, the navigation at this pointis considere
. Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine . ream by perpendicularlogs, the lower ends being driven into the mud, and the uppermortised into thecross-timbers. Theconstruction wasnovel, and I shouldjudge original. At the mouth ofBottle Brook stooda rude log cabin,noted as being the first house seenin ascending the river, and also asonce having been the residence ofan old Indian squaw, who had ayoung white husband, a fellow probably with more stomach than being rocky off the mouth of the brook, the navigation at this pointis considered a little hazardous, and the steamer was slowed downwhile making the turn in the river opposite the log cabin. Some twenty minutes or more brought them to another house, asmall story and a half frame building, on the left bank of the river,which the captain called Chases. It stood at the base of a neckof land which ran a long distance into the river, making the sharpestturn they had yet encountered. This, the captain informed them,was Sharp Shins. Half a mile beyond and they had reached the. tr=- ON THE MAGALLOWAY. THROUGH THE WILDS. 277 Lower Landing, and the steamer was stopped a few moments todischarge some freight, and the mail-bag was deHvered to a boywho was in waiting to carry it to the post-office. From this point to the hotel owned by the Berlin Mills Company,where they were to stop, the captain informed them, was by roadonly a mile and three-quarters, while by the steamers course on theriver the distance was six miles. The farther they ascended the river, the stronger grew the current;and it took them an hour to make the Upper Landing, directlyopposite the hotel. At one place along the course they sailed twomiles, and only made a few rods advance on their route, the captainshowing them the narrow strip of land dividing the two parts of theriver. As they ran into the landing, they passed a huge bowlder inthe middle of the stream, against which the current dashed, only
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