Guide book to the Megantic, Spider, and upper Dead river regions of the province of Quebec and state of Maine .. . iter has never cast a fly upon its waters, he is unable to give a practical account ofits qualities as a flsh pond. The Chain of Ponds Proper comprises, in order: Round, Long, Beaver, Bag, and Lower Ponds. Eouud Pond covers about iiftyacres of land, and affords good fishing. A boat can be run into Long Pond through the narrows, vphichare only a few rods long. Long Pond is the largest and prettiest of the chain, is about three miles long and of varying width. It contains both speck
Guide book to the Megantic, Spider, and upper Dead river regions of the province of Quebec and state of Maine .. . iter has never cast a fly upon its waters, he is unable to give a practical account ofits qualities as a flsh pond. The Chain of Ponds Proper comprises, in order: Round, Long, Beaver, Bag, and Lower Ponds. Eouud Pond covers about iiftyacres of land, and affords good fishing. A boat can be run into Long Pond through the narrows, vphichare only a few rods long. Long Pond is the largest and prettiest of the chain, is about three miles long and of varying width. It contains both speckled and lake trout; and the fishing isvery good, particularly near the foot of thepond, where the Indian Stream empties numbers of fish are caught through theice in the winter season, in this pond. The scenery about the pond is very the east shore is a high rocky ledge onthe side of the mountain, nearly overhangingthe lake, while upon all sides are ranges ofmountains. This place is of interest, not only onaccount of Arnolds trip through here, butalso on account of a foul murder Long Pond, Chain of Ponds. some twenty years ago, upon the shore of Long Pond. The victim was an Indian girl, a sister ofJoe Marie, the celebrated Indian guide at Megautic. The murderer, a white man, after committing thecrime threw the body into the lake, where it was found floating upon the water by some lumbermen, andburied a few days after bv a couple of Maine guides. A rude cedar-post marks the restiug-place of the unfortunate victim, whose murder has never been avenged, thegrave lying vipon the small neck of land intervening betweenEound and Long Ponds. Next below Long Pond, and l3nng tothe eastward, is Beaver Pond, and nest in order comes Bag,then Lower Pond, all containing more or less trout, and connectedby short streams, navigable with small boats. These ponds areconnected by a trail (Shaws Tote Road), which runs upon thewest shore, with Arnold Pond (northward) a
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