. In the Maine woods . Mountain-climbing in Maine 21. are the almost unexploredbasins too remote to be visitedin a one-days expedition fromthe Chimney Pond Camp. Naturally the view fromsuch a mountain as Katahdinis an extended and interestingone, standing as it does rela-tively alone in the center ofsuch a vast area of largelylevel wilderness. Katahdin,however, is by no means alonely mountain, as is gener-ally supposed, for it is sur-rounded byquitea littlefamilyof eminences that are dis-tinctly above the hill Mountain, a fewmiles to the north, is thesecond highest in the Statea
. In the Maine woods . Mountain-climbing in Maine 21. are the almost unexploredbasins too remote to be visitedin a one-days expedition fromthe Chimney Pond Camp. Naturally the view fromsuch a mountain as Katahdinis an extended and interestingone, standing as it does rela-tively alone in the center ofsuch a vast area of largelylevel wilderness. Katahdin,however, is by no means alonely mountain, as is gener-ally supposed, for it is sur-rounded byquitea littlefamilyof eminences that are dis-tinctly above the hill Mountain, a fewmiles to the north, is thesecond highest in the Stateand Turner, its nearest neigh-bor on the east, and theSourdnahunk Mountains thatflank it on the west, are prob-ably all of 3500 feet in ele-vation. But Katahdin suffici-ently dominates the landscape and commands a horizon thatreaches from the Canadian border on the north, around to ] Island on the south. On a bright clay it seems as if everylake in Maine was heliographing to the summit. Turner indeedhad the courage to count someof the lakes
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