. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. I Camps ami Tmmps About Ktaailii. 805 ii cri;st where Ktaadn ami its rctiniu: of lesser nioiintains burst upon our view.—a nvelation of jfraiuleur ami beauty all the more impressive because the previous scener)' had been so tame. At noon, away out beyond the precincts of permanent iiat)ilati()n, we hail our first out-of-door dinner. ()ur sportsmen cast in Swift Urook for trout without success—it was a bad tinu' of year: but a slice of pork toast
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. I Camps ami Tmmps About Ktaailii. 805 ii cri;st where Ktaadn ami its rctiniu: of lesser nioiintains burst upon our view.—a nvelation of jfraiuleur ami beauty all the more impressive because the previous scener)' had been so tame. At noon, away out beyond the precincts of permanent iiat)ilati()n, we hail our first out-of-door dinner. ()ur sportsmen cast in Swift Urook for trout without success—it was a bad tinu' of year: but a slice of pork toasted on a forked stick, a piece of hard-tack, and a cup of milkless tea were, thus early in our <iu st of healthy appetites, more palatable than a ivi^oiif at I )elnu)nico's. 'I'lu- excursionists, excepting myself, walketl on ; two <4uid( s and 1 stuck (with difificulty) to tin; waj^on, upon a road consistin}.f of a slit cut throu^di a tiense forest, over a tract of stumps, mud, thinly corduroyed swam|)s. and j^^ranite bowlders. The forest was broken only by " the farm" or " Hunt's," whert; hay and vej^'etables were raised in the early hunberinj^^ days, now a temporary habitation. Here, on the east branch of the Penobscot, I fouml our part) fishinjf without success, but canoeinj^^ with threat satisfaction. This whole territory, except a few tracts, was burned over forty years aj^^o; some of the nc;w j^^rowth is already j^^ootl timber, and here and there a dead monarch stretches his huj^^e form our path. A canoe ride two miles up the east branch was to im- as de- li}.;htful as it was novel. Our stalwart j,fuide fairly lifted our lari^er " birch" with its four passenj^ers over the shallower rapids. A short tramp throuj^h the fonst brouj^dit us before sundown to our first encampment on the "lower crossing;" of the \\'asati(|uoik, twelve miles from Sherman. Next morninij;, the 7th. we witnessed thi; construction, in two hour
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