THE SCHOODICS 



^|«#HE Schoodic or St. Croix Eiver is the first link in 

 wifjP the dividing line that separates the State of Maine 

 ^^(3 from the Province of New Brunswick. It has two 

 I's^ branches, each heading in a chain of large and 

 small lakes called Schoodics, though they are more 

 generally recognized as the Eastern and Western "Grand 

 Lakes," and the St. Croix Eiver itself, at these points, as 

 the " Grand Lake Stream." Again, the largest body of 

 water in each group is known individually and distinctively 

 as Grand Lake. On some maps the eastern group is desig- 

 nated as the Chepetnacooks, and the western as the Schoo- 

 dics ; the first named are reached from Bangor by the Euro- 

 pean and North American Eailway, which crosses the river 

 at a station called St. Croix ; or by the Calais and Houlton 

 stage road, which touches Grand Lake at a village named 

 Weston. Here boats and canoes are furnished. The other 

 chain is reached by steamer from Portland to Eastport and 

 Calais, and thence by the Calais and Lewy's Island Eailroad 

 to Princeton, where a miniature steamer is in readiness to 

 take parties up and down the lakes. 



In the Indian vernacular, Schoodic, or Mschoodiac, signifies 

 *' open space" or " wide prospect waters," referring either to the 

 wide expanse of the lakes themselves, or to the immense fields 

 of meadow-land which abound in the whole region. 



