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THE JUNCTION OF RANGELEY AND KENNEBAGO. 



objects in this whole landscape, since it rises seventeen hundred feet 

 above the level of the lake. The ascent may be made with compara- 

 tive ease by any one at all accustomed to mountain climbing, as 

 there are several paths to the summit. Bald Mountain is in reality a 

 peninsula. Its base is washed by Rangeley Lake, Rangeley Stream, 

 Cupsuptuc Lake, and Mooselucmaguntic. A narrow strip of land 

 on the south connects it with the main-land. Once on the summit, 

 looking eastward, you see the Rangeley, its graceful form deeply 

 outlined and every indentation plainly marked. Old Saddleback, 

 rock-ribbed and bare, and rising four thousand feet, faces you. Still 

 further east are the twin Bigelows, Mount Abraham, and the East 

 and West Kennebago Mountains. That thread of silver in the 

 immediate foreground is the wide and rapid Rangeley outlet, which 

 falls twenty-five feet in the two miles intervening between the point 

 where it leaves the lake and its junction with the calmer and deeper 

 waters of the Kennebago. At this point can be clearly distinguished 

 the grounds and buildings of Camp Kennebago, with the stars and 

 stripes waving from the tall flag-staff. Something more than words 

 is necessary to do full justice to the exquisitely varied panorama 

 of lake and mountain, the beauty of which could be hardly more 

 than indicated by the catalogue of names necessary to identify them. 

 Few finer views can be found in the English lakes, among the 

 Trossachs, or even in Switzerland, than this from the summit of 

 Bald Mountain. 



