Summer days down East . along the Canadian frontier. Parmachenee is a very lovely lake, five miles long and three wide,and nestling deep among a group of gently sloping hills, clad withverdure to the waters edge, and inhabited only by game, large andsmall. The altitude of this region is so great, and the air is so exquisitelypure and bracing, that a sojourn here, even though unattended by theexhilarations of hunting and fishing, is full of benefit to the exhaustedcitizen. On a romantic islet near the head of the lake is Camp Caribou, Rangeley Lakes. 89 a cluster of buildings where fifty guests
Summer days down East . along the Canadian frontier. Parmachenee is a very lovely lake, five miles long and three wide,and nestling deep among a group of gently sloping hills, clad withverdure to the waters edge, and inhabited only by game, large andsmall. The altitude of this region is so great, and the air is so exquisitelypure and bracing, that a sojourn here, even though unattended by theexhilarations of hunting and fishing, is full of benefit to the exhaustedcitizen. On a romantic islet near the head of the lake is Camp Caribou, Rangeley Lakes. 89 a cluster of buildings where fifty guests can be accommodated at once,while being initiated into the mysteries of the woodland craft by JohnDanforth, the veteran guide, who has constructed comfortable camps ata dozen trout-populated ponds in the adjacent forests. An old portageroad leads from Little Boys Falls, two miles from Camp Caribou, foreight very long miles through the woods, to the Second ConnecticutLake, one of the reservoirs of the Connecticut
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