. Here and there in New England and Canada . among the Moody Islands and over by Brassua, and Tomhegan, and the bolder adventurer may ascend to the North-East Carry, whence aroad leads in two miles to the West Branch of the Penobscot. (WhenJames Russell Lowell carried his baggage over this portage he estimated thedistance at 18,674! miles.) Thence the canoes descend the West Branch ofthe Penobscot for eighteen miles to Lake Chesuncook. eighteen miles long,and enwrapped in the great northern wilderness. The West Branch flowsdown thence for ninety miles to Mattawanikeag, on the Maine

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. Here and there in New England and Canada . among the Moody Islands and over by Brassua, and Tomhegan, and the bolder adventurer may ascend to the North-East Carry, whence aroad leads in two miles to the West Branch of the Penobscot. (WhenJames Russell Lowell carried his baggage over this portage he estimated thedistance at 18,674! miles.) Thence the canoes descend the West Branch ofthe Penobscot for eighteen miles to Lake Chesuncook. eighteen miles long,and enwrapped in the great northern wilderness. The West Branch flowsdown thence for ninety miles to Mattawanikeag, on the Maine Central Rail-road ; and from Chesuncook the sturdy woodsman may visit ChamberlainLake, and Caucomgomoc, and Caribou I^ake, and Ripogenus, and manyanother silent tarn among the houseless woods. The graceful Squaw Mountains, the cone-like peaks of the Spencer range,. FlQWIMf: ;t HtTWTTNRj

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