Guide book to the Megantic, Spider, and upper Dead river regions of the province of Quebec and state of Maine .. . ds. 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) and Eustis, and anumber of lumber camps are to be found at different points alongthe trail. Messrs. Shaw have a nice camp upon the IndianStream, and Peter LeRoyer
Guide book to the Megantic, Spider, and upper Dead river regions of the province of Quebec and state of Maine .. . ds. 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) and Eustis, and anumber of lumber camps are to be found at different points alongthe trail. Messrs. Shaw have a nice camp upon the IndianStream, and Peter LeRoyer has agood camp at the head of LongPond. Game is very plentiful all along the valley of this Chainof Ponds, and no better ground can be found for trip in a canoe down this pond to Eustis is a most enjoyableone. It was in this vicinity that Peter LeRoyer, the well-knownIndian guide, caught and domesticated a young moose, which hedrives about and works like a horse. The animal is now fouryears old, and as tame and quiet as any ox, occasionally strayinginto the woods, but always returning Tommy the tame Moose MASSACHUSETTS BOG. |etween three and four miles north of Big Northwest Pond, the most remoteof the Seven Ponds group, and between it and Arnold Pond, lies a dilatationof the Gore Stream (a branch of the Dead River), named Massachusetts original name — Caribou Bog — was given it by Mr. Kennedy Smith; butit was changed to its present name by a party of sportsmen from Boston,who, on account of its wonderful and almost inexhaustible supply of speckledtrout, honored it with the name of their native State. It is a question whetherthe palm belongs to this bog or Northwest Pond for the best fishing in theregion. Presumably, Massachusetts Bog contains a larger number, but thefish will average larger in Northwest Pond. Both waters are upon the township leased by the Club fromMessrs. Hazeltine, Knowlton, and Hall, of Belfast, Me., the same lease also
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