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propriate, as for more than a mile it is one succession 

 of grand rapids and miniature cascades, boiling, surg- 

 ing, and rushing for the placid bosom of Lake Umba- 

 gog. Good fly-fishing can be obtained at low water 

 all along this portion close to the margin, where the 

 water forms many miniature eddies, but woe betide 

 your tackle if you should chance to hook a heavy fish, 

 whose gallant spirit dictates a rush for the turbid 

 centre stream ! no rod or line on earth could possibly 

 hold, and the shores are too rough for the angler to 

 follow downwards. 



It will be well to have a gun with you in taking 

 the tramp across this portage. The first time we tra- 

 versed it we saw a young bear, and the last time one 

 of our party came in such close contact with an old 

 lady bruin as to be frightened almost to deaih, if it is 

 admissible to judge from his appearance rather than 

 from his description. 



Having progressed a little over half the distance, 

 a pretty fishing- shanty, the property of a Bostonian, 

 most opportunely offers itself as a resting-place, while 

 the panorama from its porch fairly earns the eulogy of 

 sublimity. Above, below, and in front seethes the pre- 

 cipitous river, white with foam, while in the distance the 

 placid surface of a miniature lake, unpoetically dubbed 

 <' the Pond/' recalls to memory the stories of our child- 



