. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . f the same name, at the foot of which is Daviss hotel;but the way to get there is by a buck-board road from the tavern on 79 Lily bay at the mouth of Wortli brook, to which the people at Green-ville often resort for a clays excursiou. Good trout-flshiiig can be hadon Roach; but even better is assured to adventurous sportsmen w^hofollow the log-ging roads over to the Big Lyfort and other secludedponds at the head of the West branch of the Pleasant river.
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . f the same name, at the foot of which is Daviss hotel;but the way to get there is by a buck-board road from the tavern on 79 Lily bay at the mouth of Wortli brook, to which the people at Green-ville often resort for a clays excursiou. Good trout-flshiiig can be hadon Roach; but even better is assured to adventurous sportsmen w^hofollow the log-ging roads over to the Big Lyfort and other secludedponds at the head of the West branch of the Pleasant river. Theseponds lie right under White Cap, amid savage scenery. Directly north of the extremity of Spencer bay, two miles, isSpencer pond, to which a canoe can easily be taken. This pond lies atthe foot of the dome-shaped hill-top that had been sticking up aboveislands and capes ever since we started, and, now that Sugar islandw\as passed, came out in full view, with a mate equally big and , clean in outline, unencumbered by foot-hills, spurs or neighbors,they hold the eye by their singularity rather than their beauty. But be-. MOUNT KINEO, MOOSEHEAD LAKE. yond them, like a turquoise wedge laid upon its side above the tree tops,is visible for a moment the monumental Katahdin. In that far-awaypeak it is purely beaut}^ and sentiment which hold our admiring the lake contracts, and straight ahead, seen partly overthe water and partly beyond the low shores on the right, the crags ofKineo grow darkly into larger and distincter form, till the grand head-land stands fully revealed before us, with the green lawns, the whitebirch-groves, the cottages, warehouses and vast hotel, the steamers andsail-boats, that make the INIt. Kineo House like a bit of Bar Harbordropped down here in the woods. It is the next day. A discussion is in progress in the music-room 80 of the hotel. A young man in flannel suit and slouched hat, is speak-ing with a metropolitan decision :
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