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ing the margin of the river. Some persons have christened 

 this portion of the Androscogan "Mad River," a name 

 far from inappropriate, as for more than a mile it is one 

 succession of grand rapids and miniature cascades, boiling, 

 surging, and rushing for the placid bosom of Lake Umba- 

 gog. Good fly-fishing can be obtained at low water all 

 along this portion close to the margin, where the water 

 forms many miniature eddies ; but woe betide your tackle 

 if you should chance to hook a heavy fish, whose 



RIVER SCENE. 



gallant spirit dictates a rush for the turbid centre 

 waters ! no rod or line on earth could possibly hold, 

 and the shores are too rough for the angler to follow 

 downwards. 



It will be well to have a gun with you in taking the 

 tramp across this portage. The first time we traversed it 



