. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . edby the road in crossing breezy Beach hill, whence some admirableviews of Blue mountain, and the ranges of Abraham and Saddlebackare gained in the north, while southward and westward far-reachinglandscapes of great beauty open as the road descends toward thefarming district of Greenvale. This town lies at the eastern extremityof the Rangeley lakes, and has a small summer hotel and steamboatlanding. Five miles north is Rangeley City — a village of much
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . edby the road in crossing breezy Beach hill, whence some admirableviews of Blue mountain, and the ranges of Abraham and Saddlebackare gained in the north, while southward and westward far-reachinglandscapes of great beauty open as the road descends toward thefarming district of Greenvale. This town lies at the eastern extremityof the Rangeley lakes, and has a small summer hotel and steamboatlanding. Five miles north is Rangeley City — a village of much impor-tance as a supplying point for lumber camps in winter, and a tourist-resort in summer. It possesses a commodious hotel, with awonderful outlook down the lake toward the sunset, and we reachedit in the mood to do ample justice to its table fare. As the terminus ofa telephone wire from Phillips, this village represents the forefront ofcivilization. A steam jacht, commanded by a lad in a naval cap, aAvaited us atthe wharf, and, after dinner all went aboard in great glee to beginour voyages upon the Rangeley lakes. iir CHAPTER @n THE IaNGELEY IaKES. Unmolested roved the hunters,Built the birch canoe for sailing,Caught the fish in lake and river,Shot the deer and trapped the beaver. —The Song op Hiawatha. EESE lakes, with their tributaries, are often styledthe Anclroscoggiu lakes, because they connectedlydrain into that river. The main chain, countingfrom east to west (down stream), consists offive — Oquossoc, (or Raugeley proper), CupsupticMooselucmagiintic (or Great lake), Molechmika-mmik (or Upper Richardson), Welokeunbacook(or Lower Richardson), and Umbagog. Altogeth-^ * er they cover about seventy square miles. Into thefirst named flows Long pond, often styled the head of the Androscog-gin, and several other small ponds and brooks. Into the second, comesCupsuptic river, enlarging into Cupsuptic lake at its mouth; and intothe Rangeley river, which empties Rang
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