. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . gethim cheap, is dear at any price. A few Avords remain to be said about the ascent of Katahdin. Theallurement of this distinctest mountain, the hub of state and beaconfor her remotest sons, is very great. Those who have read the fascin-ating stories of Thoreau, Jackson, Hamlin and others (not the least ofwhom is a gifted woman, of unknown name, whose story of how aparty of ladies made the ascent, w^ill be found in the volume for 1858 ofFiUnams Magazine
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . gethim cheap, is dear at any price. A few Avords remain to be said about the ascent of Katahdin. Theallurement of this distinctest mountain, the hub of state and beaconfor her remotest sons, is very great. Those who have read the fascin-ating stories of Thoreau, Jackson, Hamlin and others (not the least ofwhom is a gifted woman, of unknown name, whose story of how aparty of ladies made the ascent, w^ill be found in the volume for 1858 ofFiUnams Magazine) must long to plume themselves on being amongthe few who have reached the grizzled summit. The attack from the West branch of the Penobscot, either by de-scending it from Moosehead lake or ascending from Mattawamkeag(a railway station on the Maine Central 75 miles east of Bangor), Ihave already indicated. 92 CHAPTER X. Bangor a,nd J^arjtime iROvmcES. And then he said, How sweet it were, A lisher or a hunter there, In sunshine or in shade To wander with an easy mind, And build a household fire, and find A home in every glade! — ^ACK in Bangor again, we decide to make a briefhalt, for the town is well worth a days examin-ation. One of the oldest and richest places inMaine, it owes its prosperity to the fact that itstands at the head of ship navigation on the Pen-obscot, and at the same time is not far below theconfluence of the great branches which bringlumljcr and furs from that large region we havebeen seeing. It thus becomes the trade-centre ofall eastern Maine, and is next in size to Portland. It is a handsome city, the best residence portions covcrhig two highregions overlooking the business part of the town, which occupies anarrow valley between. In the bottom of that ravine flows the deepKenduskeag, forming a snug berth for small trading vessels. Many ofthe best residences are grouped on Thomass hill, whence a grand land-scape is spread out, and Katahdin is said
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