. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . buted great quanti-ties of their eggs and artificially hatched young to all parts of thecountry. The word Schoodic, meant lakes surrounded with clearingsmade by fire; and according to Vetromile the Abnaki name of the , Peskaclaminkkanty, has reference to these, and similar writings of Hamlin, Scott, Hallock and other authorities on anglinggive an account of the fishes and fishing here (May is the best season),and should be consulted
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . buted great quanti-ties of their eggs and artificially hatched young to all parts of thecountry. The word Schoodic, meant lakes surrounded with clearingsmade by fire; and according to Vetromile the Abnaki name of the , Peskaclaminkkanty, has reference to these, and similar writings of Hamlin, Scott, Hallock and other authorities on anglinggive an account of the fishes and fishing here (May is the best season),and should be consulted by any angler about to make his first visit tothese or any other of the Maine lakes. Excellent shooting for allclasses of game can be had in the neighborhood of these lakes, of course. The railway northward from St. Stephen runs through a rocky,desolate and monotonous forest to McAdam Junction, where you strikethe main line of the New Brunswick Railway. Six miles southward isVanceboro, whence the daily train of the Maine Central Railroad runs toBangor hy sunset. Or, by going to Eastport you can get a steamer forPortland. 104 CHAPTER The f/lLLEY OF THE K\ENNEBEC Come live with me and be my love, we will all the pleasures prove,That valleys, groves, and hills and fields,Wood or steepy mountains yields.— MarlOWE. EAVING Bangor on the morning-express westwardbound, no stop is made until Waterville isreached, though the woods are full of smallstations. About half way, for example, is New-port, whence a branch railway runs north,twenty miles, to Dexter, at the sources of theKenduskeag, only a few miles by stage fromDover and Foxcroft, and in the midst of hill-_ farms and trout-brooks. A dozen miles farther we pass Burnham, on the Sebasticook river, whence a branch railroadruns, (thirty-four miles) down through the agricultural towns on theold AValdo patent, (now Waldo county) to the historic seafaring townof Belfast, opposite Castine on Penobscot bay; it was at Belfast tha
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