. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . lly conspicu-ous from the Richardson lakes and Umbagog, while the Diamondpeaks, now first well seen, resemble twin stumps of mountains (exactcopies of one another) which have been truncated at a similar levelby the plow of the continental glacier, or by some other evenly actingagency. They are reputed to get their name from the Diamond riverwhich flows past them from distant sources in the Coos County forest; 130 but. perhaps, on the contrarj, the river
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . lly conspicu-ous from the Richardson lakes and Umbagog, while the Diamondpeaks, now first well seen, resemble twin stumps of mountains (exactcopies of one another) which have been truncated at a similar levelby the plow of the continental glacier, or by some other evenly actingagency. They are reputed to get their name from the Diamond riverwhich flows past them from distant sources in the Coos County forest; 130 but. perhaps, on the contrarj, the river takes its name from them, inreference to their odd angularity. At Berlin Mills we eat dinner and listen to animated stories of whatcapital shooting and fishing the vicinity affords, especially at Sturtevantpond. This is the proper point for the ascent of Aziscoos. A buckboardmay be driven nearly to its summit, the prospect from Avhich takesin the whole of nortliern ]Maine, as far as Katahdin, reaches westwardto the heights about Lake Champlaiu, and southwaid far into theWhite Mountains. Nor need any fear of excessive difficulties deter. ON HAGALLOWAY KIVEK. even ladies from availing themselves of this picture and experience,which certainly ought not to be missed. This is the limit of navigation, because the river above is chokedwith logs, waiting to be driven out in the spring. The afternoon was devoted to a ride of half a dozen miles throughthe woods, with occasional outlooks at mountains, etc., to FredFlints house, near Aziscoos falls, and the night we spent there wasalmost like camping-out in a very comfortable way. The falls are aseries of cataracts, boiling over ledge after ledge for a long is the most dangerous place on the river in running logs, where 140 more than one lumberman has lost his life. At high-water the tumultis ver} great and makes a picture of grand and perilous force, to -whichthe wild surroundings lend grim emphasis. There is excellent trout-
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