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and by their kindness we took passage up the lake with 

 them, six or seven miles, and were landed near our already 

 built camp on East Bay. We found three tents erected 

 and fitted up a* our bed rooms, a bark store-house for our lug- 

 gage and supplies, and an open, bark-roofed dining room 

 furnished with a long table of boards. Two camp stoves 

 outside were dimly smoking and prognosticating the com- 

 bined dinner and supper tor which we mightily yearned. 



Finally, oitf hunger appeased, \\e were in mood to con- 

 sider our surrounding":, while, in a Sunday like way, we 

 lounged about llie tent- or strolled by a winding path 

 leisurely down to the water - edire. Our camp was new 

 and clean, no mean consideration, in the dense \\ood.-. 

 about tenor twelve rods from the water up an easy ascent. 

 and from which, after the intervening underbrush and 

 lower limits of the tree- had been cut away, we looked out 

 upon Ea^t Hay and the lake beyond and two or three 

 small islands. A spring of pure, cold water bubbled up be- 

 tween the rocks by the path from which, arriving at camp 

 or departing, it was a luxury to drink whether thirsty or 

 not; whilea little way oil' was another spring, deep and 

 abundant ''or all the wants of our forest household. 



The Lake is about nine miles long, varying from one to 

 perhaps four or five miles in width, and in shape much like 

 a huge, ragged stomach, through which the waters of the 

 beautiful Oswegatchic Kiver pass from the south and on 

 their devious northerly wa\ lo the St. Lawrence. 



The dam at its foot was built and is maintained to gather 

 water with which to swell the river below, at certain 



