. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . encountered just such a day herethirty years ago. Whiffs of mist, he records, had met us at the outset. Pres-ently we opened chaos, and chaos shut in upon us. Tliere was noUmbagog to be seen; nothing but a few yards of gray water anda world of gray vapor. Therefore I cannot criticise, nor insult,nor compliment Umbagog. Let us deem it beautiful. The sun triedat the fog, to lift it with the leverage of his early level beams. Fail-ing in this attempt to st
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . encountered just such a day herethirty years ago. Whiffs of mist, he records, had met us at the outset. Pres-ently we opened chaos, and chaos shut in upon us. Tliere was noUmbagog to be seen; nothing but a few yards of gray water anda world of gray vapor. Therefore I cannot criticise, nor insult,nor compliment Umbagog. Let us deem it beautiful. The sun triedat the fog, to lift it with the leverage of his early level beams. Fail-ing in this attempt to stir and heave away the mass, he climbed andbegan to use his beams as wedges, driving them down more perpen- 131 dicularly. Whenever this inckistrious craftsman made a split, the foggaped and we could see for a moment, indefinitely, an expanse ofwater hedged with gloomy forest, and owning for its dominantheight, Aziscoos, or, briefer, Esquihos. . We enjoyed our damp voyage heartily, on that wide were our shouts and laughter the only sounds. Loons wouldsometimes wail to us, as thev dived, black dots in the mist. Then we. would wait for their bulbous reappearance and let fly the futile shotwith its muffled report, missing, of course. Through a similar fog the present writer and his companionssteamed down the whole length of the lake. As the yacht plowedthrough the gauzy veil little islands loomed trembling between skyand water, like hanging gardens. Gradually the filmy trees definedthemselves, the aerial enchantment lost its potency, and we came upwith common prose islands that had so late been magical and poetic. Umbagog is a dozen miles long, and perhaps a mile and a half in 132 average width. It lies north and south, sharing its waters betweenNew Hampshire and Maine. Rapid river, tlie inlet from the upperlakes, enters near its northeastern end; and the outlet is only a shortdistance below, from the opposite (western) side, where the Andros-coggin begins its course
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