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tains between this and Little Tupper, by a route 

 whollj unknown when I was here before. Striking 

 the main inlet of Little Tupper, we ascended it, rousing 

 up an otter and deer in our passage, and soon came to 

 Rock Pond, so called from the enormous mass of rocks 

 and stones at the lower end of the lakelet, as well as 

 from a single huge rock in its centre, which forms a little 

 oval island. I had never heard of this pond before, 

 and was quite struck with its appearance, so unlike, from 

 its rough surroundings, all other sheets of water that I 

 had visited. On the single bare rock, in the centre, two 

 sea-gulls had built their nest, whose white wings, flash- 

 ing along the green background of woods, carried the 

 imagination far back to the sounding sea shore from 

 which they had wandered. 



As we drew our boats forth on to the mountain side, 

 I experienced an entirely new sensation. Hitherto in 

 all my journeyings, the carrying-places of any length 

 had always been along streams that, in the woods, you 

 come to regard as a sort of companionship. Besides, 

 they are unerring guides, leading you surely to another 

 body of water which you know to be only a little way 

 ahead. But to pull our boats into the woods with no 

 path before us and no watercourse to guide us, and 



