What to see in America . hundred persons who constitute this tribe have permanent dwellings on the outskirts of the wilderness at Oldtown, where they occupy an island in the river. The levels of many of the wilderness lakes vary only a few feet, and boatmen, by short portages, or by none at all, pass easily from one to another. Hunters, fishermen, and other pleasure-seekers often make long trips on the streams and lakes for days and weeks at a time. A guide and two persons can travel comfortably in a canoe and carry a tent, food, and the necessary camp utensils. In the fallshooting season thou
What to see in America . hundred persons who constitute this tribe have permanent dwellings on the outskirts of the wilderness at Oldtown, where they occupy an island in the river. The levels of many of the wilderness lakes vary only a few feet, and boatmen, by short portages, or by none at all, pass easily from one to another. Hunters, fishermen, and other pleasure-seekers often make long trips on the streams and lakes for days and weeks at a time. A guide and two persons can travel comfortably in a canoe and carry a tent, food, and the necessary camp utensils. In the fallshooting season thou-sands of sportsmencome to the wildlands from the citiesnear and far. Scarcely less wellknown than ]\Ioose-head Lake are theRangeley Lakes, nestling among forested hills in the northwest corner of the state. They are called a fishermans paradise. There are five of them, all connected by navigable waterways, and small steamers ply on them and call at the various entire Maine coast from Portland to New Brunswick. MoosEHEAD Lake and Squaw Mountain 8 What to See in America is a labyrinth of headlands, bays, and isles. In the oppositedirection it is indented comparatively little, and here arethe sandy beaches of Old Orchard, York, and other well-known summer resorts. Maines shore fisheries are im-portant, and more than seventy factories are engaged incanning lobsters, clams, and small herring. Lobsters arecaught in cage-like traps called lobster pots. Men and boysdig the clams on the mud flats at low tide. In Europe vari-ous little fishes have long been canned as sardines, and since1875 this industry has developed on the coast of herring used for the purpose are caught in weirs. Small steamers thread the channels among theislands and bring a mul-titude of visitors everyyear. The largest andmost beautiful of theislands is Mt. Desert,which is about fourteenmiles long and sevenbroad. There are thir-teen mountains on it,and an equal number oflakes nestle in the hol-
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