. Here and there in New England and Canada . and groves of cedar and red oak, andpopulous with black bass and white perch; Androscoggin Pond, in Leeds,flowing for nearly two leagues through a lovely rural region frequented bysummer-boarders; Weld Pond, not far from Wilton, overlooked by MountBlue, and famous for its fisheries; Lake Auburn, three miles from the cityof Auburn, with its well-known mineral spring and summer-hotel; and scoresof others. 8s CHAPTER XTX. MOOSEHEAD LAKE. The Wilderness Sea.— Its Mountain-Walls. — The Voyage bySteambo.\t.— KiNEO.—A Line of Summer-Hotels. MOOSEHEAD is th
. Here and there in New England and Canada . and groves of cedar and red oak, andpopulous with black bass and white perch; Androscoggin Pond, in Leeds,flowing for nearly two leagues through a lovely rural region frequented bysummer-boarders; Weld Pond, not far from Wilton, overlooked by MountBlue, and famous for its fisheries; Lake Auburn, three miles from the cityof Auburn, with its well-known mineral spring and summer-hotel; and scoresof others. 8s CHAPTER XTX. MOOSEHEAD LAKE. The Wilderness Sea.— Its Mountain-Walls. — The Voyage bySteambo.\t.— KiNEO.—A Line of Summer-Hotels. MOOSEHEAD is the queen of the Maine lakes, far away in the north-ern wilderness, a thousand feet above the sea, and presenting a rarecombination of mountain and crag, silent primeval forests, and enchantedislands, and great sunlit reaches of blue water, with many a lovely silver-sanded cove and tranquil bay. The grandscale on which Mother Nature worked whilebuilding the State of Maine is exemplified inthis bright inland sea, which has a length of. thirty-eight miles, and an ex-,—. treme breadth of fourteen miles. It is the great fish-pond of the country, withmillions of river and laketrout, whitefish, and othergamey denizens of the waters. Over the rough seas that the south-east galesoften pile up, the Indian canoes float like gulls, quartering along the white-crested waves with inimitable grace and buoyancy. The four hundred miles of shore-line encircling Moosehead contain a great variety of scenery, lines of shaggy hills, deep and sheltered bays, andthe estuaries of fishing-streams. The perfumes of pine and sjirucefill the pure highland air, untainted by the dead exhalations of towns, andprei)are a tonic which it is delightful to breathe. Thi^ is the chief of all themyriad lakes of Maine ; and every season thousands of vacation-tourists seekits refreshing and invigorating surroundings. The favorite excursion is to the top of Mount Kineo, a steep scramble,by a well-mar
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