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when the boundary was laid out, a lane two rods wide 

 was cut through the woods, following the water -shed 

 which separated the waters flowing into the St. Lawrence 

 River from those discharging into the Atlantic Ocean. 

 This was the treaty boundary; and to-day the old forest 

 rises on either side of the new and stunted growth which 

 has filled the gap, as the houses rise on either side of a 

 city street, nor is the one more clearly marked than the 

 other. It is not without emotion that one gazes for the 

 first time on this scar upon the face of nature, otherwise 

 without a blemish, especially should he chance upon one 

 of the small cast-iron obelisks which mark it at irregular 

 intervals, and bear in raised letters the words "National 

 Boundary-line." Then for the first time he fully realizes 

 what his surroundings have, till then, seemed utterly to 

 deny, that civilized man has been there before. 



But it was not for this that we had toiled so far, for to 

 us it lacked the charm of novelty. Our eyes sought and 

 rested on Megantic, Rush, and Spider Lakes, and the set- 

 tlements of Canada which fringed the wilderness on the 

 north; on the Dead River County and the Seven Pond 

 Valley, an unbroken forest, gemmed with lakes, to the 

 east; and to the south and west upon a sea of mountains, 

 range following range like the billows of the ocean, each 

 range a different color, to where Mt. Washington, and 

 Owl's Head on Lake Memphremagog, lay dim and shad- 

 owy on the distant horizon. 



From the first we had recognized that from Kenneba- 

 go Lake to Parmacheene would be the most difficult part 

 of the trip, for it was utterly unknown ground, and many 

 mountain ranges and one river barred the way. We were 

 unable to gain any information either as to the distance 

 to be traversed, or how the natural obstacles could be 



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