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enchantment to the woodland scenery which skirted the shores 

 of the lake, so strikingly in contrast with our dismal introduction 

 the night previous, that we almost fancied ourselves awaking up 

 in some fairy land. 



CHAPTEU III. 



Method of constructing Camp and Hovel. — Timber. — Covering. — Arrange- 

 ment of Interior. — The Bed. — Deacon Seat. — Ingenious Method of mak- 

 ing a Seat. — Cooking : superior Method of Baking. — The nightly Camp 

 Fire. — Liabilities from taking Fire. — A Camp consumed. — Men burned to 

 Death. — Enjoyment. — The new Camp: Dedication. — A Song. — A Story. 

 — New Order in Architecture. — Ox Hovel. — Substitute for Lime. — The 

 Devotedness of the Teamster. — Fat and lean Cattle. — Swamping Roads. — 

 Clumps of Pine. — The points of Interest in a Logging Road. — The Team- 

 ster's Path. — Regret. — The peculiar Enjoyment of Men thus engaged. 



The re-outfit alluded to in the preceding pages having arrived 

 upon the territory previously explored, arrangements are at once 

 made to locate and build our winter camps. To determine upon 

 the best point is by no means an easy task, it being very diffi- 

 cult to fix upon the location in a strange and imperfectly-ex- 

 plored forest. Wood and water privileges are to be taken into 

 the account ; a central position in respect to the timber ; the 

 landing, the locating of the main roads, &c., are to be attended 

 to. To combine all these qualities, where we can see only a 

 few rods in advance on account of the trees and thickets, and our 

 work must necessarily cover hundreds of acres of wild land, it 

 must be confessed is no ordinary task. I have seldom taxed my 

 judgment as severely on any subject as in judiciously locating a 

 logging establishment. 



