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Bangor ; then Crystal six miles, Island Falls six miles, Dyer 

 Brook six miles, Oakfield" nine miles, Ashland Junction, 

 three miles, through an unbroken wilderness. Towns on the 

 same line of railroad in Penobscot county, before reaching 

 Sherman from Bangor, Schoodic 56 miles from Bangor, W. 

 Seboeis two miles, Norcross nine miles, Twin Dam one mile, 

 Millinockett seven miles. Grindstone six miles, Staceyville 

 twelve miles. These are distances between stations. The 

 hunting grounds are easily accessible from each of these 

 stations. 



Norcross. 



This station is at the foot of North Twin lyake, con- 

 nected with South Twin Ivake, The Elbow, Pemadumcook, 

 and Umbajejus Lakes. These are in Penobscot and Piscat- 

 aquis counties, but being accessible from Norcross on line 

 of B. & A. R. R. are spoken of in this connection. Steamer 

 to all points on these lakes, and from landing on Umbajejus 

 lyake there is only 50 rods carry to Millinockett lyake. 



Nahmakanta lake is to the west, reached by steamfer to 

 the head of Pemadumcook, thence by buckboard. At the 

 Norcross House, of which P. A. Fowler is proprietor, will be 

 found good accommodations, and all camp supplies, outfits, 

 etc., may be procured of F. M. Peasley. This is a conven- 

 ient starting point on the line of the B. & A. R. R. for hunt- 

 ing grounds. It may also be said that these lakes afford 

 excellent white perch, trout and salmon fishing, also pickerel 

 and togue. 



Twenty-eight miles from Norcross, by the lakes and the 

 West Branch, Sourdnahunk Stream, which empties into the 

 West Branch, is reached. Finest of trout waters, and in the 

 many smaller ponds in the vicinity are the finest trout waters 

 in the world. The principal ponds are, Foss, Knowlton, 

 Daisey, lyost and Two Mile, and many small, unnamed ones, 

 all literally alive with trout, weighing from one to four 

 pounds. 



This is also the doorway of one of the finest big game 

 regions in Maine. Going up the West Branch the trail 

 is struck for Mt. Katahdin. From the West Branch it is 17 

 miles by buckboard, to Sourdnahunk L,ake, a famous hunting 

 ground for moose and deer. 



Sixteen miles from Norcross, by water, or eighteen miles 



