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assiduously courted, encouraging them to rally round his 

 standard, and to this day some few of the " oldest inhabitants" 

 recount to their children, probably handed down by their 

 fathers to them, the story of the " descent of the Bostonians," 

 as the only great public event that has ever occurred to vary 

 the monotonous incidents of the sequestered and beautiful 

 valley of the Chaudiere. Years before, in i723-'24, the 

 Indians made all their incursions and ravages upon the 

 eastern part of Massachusetts Bay by this route, making a 

 portage from the head of the Chaudiere to the head waters 

 of the Kennebec. 



Leaving Lake Megantic, and going due West through a 

 section of country rapidly filling up with thriving home- 

 steads and substantial settlers, we come to Coaticooke, on 

 the Portland branch of the Grand Trunk Railway, nine miles 

 from the boundary line between the United States and Ca- 

 nada. On the river, which gives its name to the village, are 

 a most romantic series of falls, or cascades, extending over a 

 mile in length ; these may be reached by leaving the high- 

 way between Compton and Coaticooke, at a point of the 

 road distant a mile from the latter village. The river runs 

 through a chasm of eighty or ninety feet deep, the rocks of 

 which are fringed with tangled masses of shrubs and trees, 

 hemlock and spruce predominating, which grow from every 

 crevice and rent in the rocky walls. The falls impress the 

 beholder with sublimity and awe, not a little heightened by 

 the darkness and gloom the chasm adds to the scene. A few 

 miles west of Coaticooke, in the southern part of the Township 

 ofBarnston, we come upon a small lake, not generally 

 marked on any of our maps, called Little Baldwin or Pinnacle 

 Lake. This latter name it takes from a peculiar eminence 

 rising abruptly from the north-east shore of the lake to the 

 height of 1,000 feet, nearly perpendicularly from its base. 

 This is called " Pinnacle Mountain " ; it is wooded for 

 nearly two-thirds of its height, but the remainder, up to- its 



