. New England; a human interest geographical reader. crossYork and Cumberland counties to the sea. Not untilcopious rains fell late in August were the flames checkedin their devastating course. Maine contains more than eighteen hundred lakesand ponds. All these, together with the rivers, have asurface amounting to fully one-tenth of the land area ofthe state. Most of the lakes and ponds have woodedsurroundings. The largest lake is Moosehead. Itis forty miles long and from four to twelve its borders Mount Kineo rises eight hundredfeet above the lake level. The mountain faces thewater
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. crossYork and Cumberland counties to the sea. Not untilcopious rains fell late in August were the flames checkedin their devastating course. Maine contains more than eighteen hundred lakesand ponds. All these, together with the rivers, have asurface amounting to fully one-tenth of the land area ofthe state. Most of the lakes and ponds have woodedsurroundings. The largest lake is Moosehead. Itis forty miles long and from four to twelve its borders Mount Kineo rises eight hundredfeet above the lake level. The mountain faces thewater in so perpendicular a precipice that a personcould jump into the lake from its top. This is thelargest mass of hornstone known in the world, andthe New England Indians got from it much of theflint they used for their arrow-heads. 340 New England The solitudes around Moosehead are frequented bybig game, the streams are full of fish, and the lakesabound with water-fowl. Here and there a few fainttrails wind through the forest, most of them of little. Moosehead Lake from Kineo use except in winter; and the rivers and lakes are thechief thoroughfares, just as they were in the days ofthe first explorers. Even the Indians are not alto-gether lacking, for a remnant of the once powerfulPenobscot tribe has survived, and some of its memberscontinue to resort to the woods to hunt and fish andact as guides. The four hundred persons who constitute this In-dian tribe have permanent dwellings on the outskirtsof the wilderness at Old town, where they occupy an The Maine Forests 34: island in the river. A lumbermans bateau rowed bya swarthy Indian gives access to the island. Amongthe dwelHngs, which are set helter-skelter in a some-what close group at one end of the island, are a publichall, a school-house, and a good-sized church. Thereare no streets nor roads —• only paths.
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