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by buckboard from Millinockett station, Debsconeag is 

 reached, but this is more particularly spoken of in the chap- 

 ter on Penobscot county. 



At Grindstone take canoe for Mt. Katahdin trail and 

 Wisatacook River. At Staceyville, buckboard ride of six 

 miles to the " Hunt Farm," M. M. Tracer, proprietor; good 

 accommodation ; then canoe for same trail, in all of which 

 region is good deer and moose hunting. 



At Ashland Junction take train for Smyrna Mills, one 

 mile, Weeksboro lo miles, vSt. Croix eight miles, Griswold 

 six miles, Masardis eight miles, beyond. Take stage here 

 for OxBow. At OxBow by canoe or buckboard to Munsun- 

 gan Lake and Millinockett Lake, famous hunting and fishing 

 camps of lyibb}^ and Arbo. Fine deer and moose country. 



PVom Houlton take railroad to Presque Isle, Ft. Fair- 

 field, Caribou and Van Buren on the St. John River. From 

 Caribou to Ft. Kent, 40 miles, fine carriage road. 



Sporting camps in this county : 



Chas. B. Reed, Ashland; D. h. Cummings, Houlton; 

 Miles D. Arbo, OxBow ; Exchange Hotel, E. G. Howard, 

 Prop., Ashland. 



CUMBERLAND COUNTY. 



In the southern portion of the State, contains 46 lakes 

 and ponds. The city of Portland, in this county, is the most 

 populous, and the principal city in the State, beautifully situ- 

 ated on a peninsular extending into Casco Bay. It is, with the 

 islands in the bay and along the coast, a famous summer re- 

 sort. Terminus of Eastern and Western Divisions of B. & 

 M. R. R., 115 miles from Boston; terminus of Mountain 

 Division M. C. R. R., from White Mountains, Portland & 

 Rochester R. R. from Worcester, Mass., and Grand Trunk 

 R. R. from Montreal. Daily line of steamers from New York, 

 Boston and Maritime Provinces. 



The " New Falmouth " is the leading hotel. First class 

 in all its appointments. All points in Maine reached by 

 rail or steamer from Portland. 



Fishing Resorts. 

 SEBAGO LAKE, fifteen miles long, six miles wide, one 

 of the four lakes in Maine in which land-locked salmon are 

 indigenous, sometimes caught weighing more than 20 



