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splendour of luxuriant timber, with irregular and 

 changing outline, the lovely sheet of water, Umbagog, 

 thickly studded with innumerable islands of every 

 form, size, and outline. On first beholding this scene, 

 Loch Lomond was vividly recalled to mind, and the 

 more frequently we beheld this picture, the stronger 

 was the impression of the striking similarity. Again, 

 this lake will have additional charms to the sportsman, 

 for here trout abound in immense numbers. But sup- 

 posing you started from Bethel after breakfast, the 

 sun must now be near dipping the horizon, when you 

 have reached thus far, so that you had better hurry 

 forward and gain the hospitable roof- tree of Mr. 

 Simeon Frost, the hotel proprietor, ere night envelopes 

 the earth with her sombre mantle of darkness. 



Being met on the porch by the honest, straight- 

 forward Simeon, you may safely resign yourself to his 

 care, which would be dangerous in this locale in many 

 other hands, as some of the hosts are peculiar in 

 their belief, and strongly adhere to, a sinister inter- 

 pretation of the words, " I was a stranger and ye took 

 me in." But once marshalled under the banner of 

 Mr. Frost, you will be safe from their philanthropic 

 designs ; and further, you will be well fed and housed. 

 If you be an epicure, fail not to ask for a 'bonne louche 

 which we relished among these pine-clad hills viz., 



