. Here and there in New England and Canada . > t^n. eWCTOVEW * PRI^TEaS BOSTO< 87 and the Lily-Bay group, with scores of great green hills, and the singularlyprecipitous Mount Kineo, add an element of grandeur to the scenery, whichis enhanced by views of the far-away Mount Katahdin, alone in the easternwilderness. Civilization has as yet made but few advances into this wildland, and the shores are almost entirely in their original and primevalsolitude. It is a pleasant voyage by steamboat from the southern end of the laketo Kineo, a distance of twenty miles. From abreast of Burnt-Jacket
. Here and there in New England and Canada . > t^n. eWCTOVEW * PRI^TEaS BOSTO< 87 and the Lily-Bay group, with scores of great green hills, and the singularlyprecipitous Mount Kineo, add an element of grandeur to the scenery, whichis enhanced by views of the far-away Mount Katahdin, alone in the easternwilderness. Civilization has as yet made but few advances into this wildland, and the shores are almost entirely in their original and primevalsolitude. It is a pleasant voyage by steamboat from the southern end of the laketo Kineo, a distance of twenty miles. From abreast of Burnt-Jacket Cliff,the great Squaw Mountain comes into sight, on the west, and White Cap peers over the east-ern woods. Thenthe course lies be-tween the largeDeer and SugarIslands, and so. emerges on the •o . ■; broadest part ■> ^. of the lake, ^^^ xv- stretching from Spen- *^i- xcer Bav to the Kennebec ■,Dam, at the outlet. Over . the bay loom the dark SpencerMountains, sometimes ascended byadventurous woodsmen; and a glimpse ofblue Katahdin is gained, in the remote dis-tance. Then bold Kineo appears, far up alongthe shining waters; and in a short time the happy inland voyage is ended,and we reach the comfortable and fashionable hotel, the summer-capital ofthis vast natural park. There are many other interesting lakes in this northern region,— Sebec,with its four leagues of bright waters ; Onaway, abounding in fish ; Hebron,near the great slate-quarries of Monson ; and scores of others, each with itssummer-quota of visitors. The best of guides and equipments may be found at Greenville, Kineo, Sebec, and other outposts of civilization on the edge ofthe immense northern wilderness. There are summer-hotels at Greenville, near the southern end of the lake ;at
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