. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . diate relief. The hotels, while not like those at the large mountain and sea-side resorts, are neat, comfortable houses, well furnished, with tablessupplied with plain, wholesome, and well-cooked food, and are run atan average rate of about $ per day. There are three principal routes of entrance to the lake regionfrom Boston : 1st, via Portland, Bethel and Cambridge, to Lake Um-bagog; 2d, via Portland, Bryants Pond and xVndover to Lake Welo-kennabac
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . diate relief. The hotels, while not like those at the large mountain and sea-side resorts, are neat, comfortable houses, well furnished, with tablessupplied with plain, wholesome, and well-cooked food, and are run atan average rate of about $ per day. There are three principal routes of entrance to the lake regionfrom Boston : 1st, via Portland, Bethel and Cambridge, to Lake Um-bagog; 2d, via Portland, Bryants Pond and xVndover to Lake Welo-kennabacook; 3d, via Portland, Farmington and Phillips to Oquossoclake. To accommodate visitors and to aid the commercial enterprises ofthe region, steamboats have been placed upon each lake and upon theMagalloway river, and wagon-transfers provided at the carries betweenthem. The practical side of the picture is represented by the lumbermen,who for nearly a century have floated their rafts and driven their logsdown these waters; and by the Union Water Power Company, whichcontrols the whole system, legally by corporative charter, and actu- A BIO TKOUT. 120 ally by a series of prodisrioiis dams, which reserve the water in thesereservoirs more carefully than natuie would do, and let it out in thedry season in such proportion as shall sustain the water-power of theAndroscoggin river. The object of this solicitude is Lewiston, whosemill-owners are the promotors of this enterprise; but incident-ally all the mills along the river are benefitted. Fortunately theseworks are riot of a kind to interfere injuriously with the scenery,which is made by the grandeur of distant prospects, rather than out ofsomething prettj and near at hand. It was upon the uppermost of the chain of lakes that we were nowembarked. The water was smooth and the air deliciously moist andcool, while the sunshine was rapidly cutting long swaths in the miststhat still lingered upon the sides of the drenched hills in ir
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