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or morass on one side or the other, in some part of its extent, was, 

 in this case, actually located between the house and the lake iu 

 question— that the horseback, as we have before stated, after cross- 

 ing the Seboois, turned northerly and stretched along for many 

 miles having the Seboois river on its east side and an extensive 

 bog on the west, and that there was no better way to get to the 

 lake by land than to proceed to the dam and then take a " lole" 

 road up the horseback to the point proposed. So we chartered a 

 pair of horses to take our "dunnage" to the dam, where we left 

 most of it and then turned them up stream along the route proposed, 

 to the foot of first Seboois lake or " White horse lake", as tlie hun- 

 ters call it. Our object for taking the land route thus far, was to 

 examine the deposit of Ilelderberg limestone above mentioned, 

 which is stated to be near the foot of first lake. As we approached 

 the lake, say a mile and a half or two miles from it, large boulders 

 of conglomerate and larger boulders of Ilelderberg began to show 

 themselves, indicating that the sites of these rocks in place were 

 not far off. We did not succeed in finding the exact locality of 

 either at this time, but the following fact we did ascertain from the 

 testimony of the boulders on the road, viz : — that the Ilelderberg 

 locality was to the right of us in the forest between the road and 

 the river, while the source and site of the conglomerates was far- 

 ther up and even above the upper lake. This story was told us by 

 the boulders themselves by the fact that we soon passed the Ilel- 

 derbergs and saw no more of them, while the conglomerates con- 

 tinued, scattered along the margins of the thoroughfares between 

 the lakes, often impeding the channel ; sure evidence that we had 

 passed by the source of the Ilelderbergs, and not yet reached the 

 parent bed of the conglomerates. The Seboois lakes are three in 

 number, and are very fine and pleasantly located sheets of water, 

 but not very accurately delineated on the maps. They are con- 

 nected by short thoroughfares. The first lake, or " White Horse'' 

 lake, is the smallest ; Second lake, or Snow-shoe lake, is next in size, 

 while Third or Grand lake is much larger than either, stretching 

 diagonally across the township. They are located on the height of 

 land between the Aroostook and Penobscot rivers. They arc all, 

 as is also Scragly lake, well stored with several species of trout,— 

 with pickerel and several other species of fish. In the summer and 

 autumn trout are caught in abundance, and in the winter the deep 

 lake trout or togues are obtained readily by the hunters and lum- 



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