. Here and there in New England and Canada . UPPER MAGALLOWAY. in her wildest mood. No human home appears on all the score of milesaround the placid lake. Its altitude of 2,500 feet above the sea gives anadded virtue to the air. Thoreau, that wise naturalist, averred that the airof Maine is a diet-drink; and a very choice brand of it may be found here. 73 The vicinity of Parmachenee is enriched by many excellent fishing-grounds,— Beaver Pond, Saturday Pond, Moose Brook, Little Boys Falls,and others; and there are snug little huts for fishermen near several ofthese localities. The chief object
. Here and there in New England and Canada . UPPER MAGALLOWAY. in her wildest mood. No human home appears on all the score of milesaround the placid lake. Its altitude of 2,500 feet above the sea gives anadded virtue to the air. Thoreau, that wise naturalist, averred that the airof Maine is a diet-drink; and a very choice brand of it may be found here. 73 The vicinity of Parmachenee is enriched by many excellent fishing-grounds,— Beaver Pond, Saturday Pond, Moose Brook, Little Boys Falls,and others; and there are snug little huts for fishermen near several ofthese localities. The chief object in the natural scenery of the lake is theconical Bose-Buck Mountain, rising from the south-eastern cove; and thegreat Mount Carmel lies within two or three miles of the lake, on the north-. ox LAKE PARMACHEXEE. west. Glimpses are gained also of the untrodden Boundary thus at the headwaters of the Androscoggin, you may wish toreturn by another route. If so, it is only ten miles (but tremendously hardones) from Camp Caribou to the Second Connecticut Lake, whose watersflow down from near the frontier, and enter the Connecticut River. 74 CHAPTER XVI. THE RANGELEY LAKES. Farmington.—Rangeley.—Indian Rock.—Cupsuptic.—Lake Moost;- LUCMAGUNTIC.—BaLD MOUNTAIN.—MoLLYCHUNKAMUNK LaKE.—LaKE Welokennebacook.—Lake Umkagog. Then I gently shake the tackleTill the barbed and fatal hackleIn its tempered jaws shall shackleThat old trout, so wary grown. AWAY up in the north-western corner of Maine, deep amid the forests, andsurrounded by untrodden mountains, are the famous fishing andhunting grounds of the Rangele\- Lakes, for a generation past the favoriteresort of the better class of New-England sportsmen. This charmed regionis entered by taking the Bosto
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