Identifier: summerdaysdownea00swee (find matches)
Title: Summer days down East
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897
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Publisher: Portland : Chisholm Brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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om cities hundreds of miles away. There are comfortablecabins on the shore, and boats on the water. Twelve miles farther intothe wilderness, and within twenty miles of Canada, lie the renownedSeven Ponds, the ultima tJmle of the trout-fisher, with their swarms ofgamy and delicious trout. Here, also, are boats and camps for the useof sportsmen, under the care of Smith, the path-finder. Now and thena small herd of deer may be seen coming down to the ponds, on a stillmorning, to drink; and of other and smaller game the wide and moun-tainous forests all around are full. This region of mountains and lakes may also be reached by wayof Farmington and Kingfield, although good accommodation forstaging is found at Browns, in North Anson. The former road ascendsthe Carrabasset Valley from Kingfield, and then crosses the highlandsby a very rough and arduous route, after which there is a final stretchof ten miles of admirable road, affording very grand views of MountBigelow and its sister peaks. n
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Dead River and Flagstaff. 61 The road from North Anson passes through North New Portland, oneof three little factory hamlets in a township which was granted to thepeople who suffered by the British naval bombardment of Portland in1775. It has no fewer than six churches, to a declining population ofabout 1,200 souls. Beyond is Dead River Village, twenty-seven miles fromNorth Anson, and here, at Parsonss inn, one can get boats and supplies toascend the river to Flagstaff and Eustis, with a portage around the pict-uresque Hurricane Falls. Dead River Plantation has about lOO inhabi-tants, mostly of the Methodist persuasion, and sent twelve stalwartsoldiers into the civil war. Here we are on the route of Benedict Arnoldsexpedition against Quebec, and can ascend the north branch of DeadRiver for a dozen miles (with only one short carry, at Ledge Falls), tothe Chain Ponds, whence the way is short across the frontier, and downto Lake Megantic and the Chaudiere waters. The territory betweenDea

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