What to see in America . miles long and four to twelvebroad. From its borders Mt. Kineo rises 800 feet abovethe lake level. The mountain faces the water in so perpen-dicular a precipice that a person could jump into the lakefrom its top. This is the largest mass of hornstone knownin the world, and the New England Indians got from itmuch of the flint they used for their arrow-heads. The solitudes around Moosehead are frequented by biggame, and there is an abundance of fish and a few faint trails wind through the forest, and therivers and lakes are the chief thoroughfares. Even t
What to see in America . miles long and four to twelvebroad. From its borders Mt. Kineo rises 800 feet abovethe lake level. The mountain faces the water in so perpen-dicular a precipice that a person could jump into the lakefrom its top. This is the largest mass of hornstone knownin the world, and the New England Indians got from itmuch of the flint they used for their arrow-heads. The solitudes around Moosehead are frequented by biggame, and there is an abundance of fish and a few faint trails wind through the forest, and therivers and lakes are the chief thoroughfares. Even theIndians are not altogether lacking, for some members of theonce powerful Penobscot tribe may still be encountered inthe woods hunting and fishing, or acting as guides. The four Maine. The Southern Cross on the Maine Coast 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
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