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The elevation is at least 1,600 feet above the level of the 

 sea. A delightful, healthful, famous resort for the sports- 

 man. Steamers on lakes, and registered guides of long ex- 

 perience, fidelity and honesty can be procured at the usual 

 rates. 



From Rangeley take boat or steamer to the popular Mingo 

 Spring Sporting Camps, C. E. Belcher, proprietor, situated 

 on Mingo Point, Rangeley Lake, and to the foot of Rangeley 

 Lake to the famous and popular and beautifully located 

 Mountain View House, L. E. Bovvley, proprietor, a resort in 

 high favor with all sportsmen ; thence by carriage one and 

 one-half miles, across the carry to Mooselucmaguntic Lake. - 

 This lake and connecting waters, though partly in Franklin 

 Count)-, are described under the chapter on Oxford County. 



HANCOCK COUNTY. 



One of the eight principal game counties abounding in 

 deer. 



Boundaries : North by Penobscot Count>- ; east l)y Wash- 

 ington County : south b\' Atlantic Ocean ; west by Penobscot 

 County and Penobscot Bay. Area, 1650 sq. miles; water area, 

 140 sq. miles. Contains 144 lakes and ponds. 



City of Ellsworth, shire town, 30 miles from Bangor on 

 Mt. Desert Branch of M. C. R. R. from Bangor to Bar Har- 

 bor, and 23 miles from Bar Plarbor. Leaving Bangor by 

 this railroad the first fishing resort reached is iMtz Pond, or 

 Phillips Lake, six miles long by two miles wide, 12 miles 

 from Bangor. l'<xcellent land-locked salmon, trout, bass and 

 white perch fishing. There are ten other ponds easily 

 reached from this station, (Lake House), in which are trout, 

 land-locked salmon, perch and bass, and many brooks where 

 good trout fishing is to be had. 



REEDS Pond or GREEN Lake, six miles beyond, — 

 the railroad .station is on shore of this lake, — is about seven 

 miles long, and is composed reall>- of two large bodies of 

 water connected by narrows between. This is one of the four 

 original land-locked .salmon lakes in Maine. Excellent land- 

 locked salmon, trout and white perch fishing. The IT. S. 

 Fish Culture vStation is located here. 



The next fishing resort reached is BRANCH POND, or 

 NICOLIN Lake, estimated to be between six and seven miles 



