CHAPTER MJT. 
MIDDLE DAM CAMP. 
Tuis camp is situated at the head of Rapid River, and at 
the foot of Mollychunkemunk Lake, being the next lake east 
of the Umbagog, in a chain of a dozen lakes, in the State of 
Maine, which head near the mountains separating that state 
from Canada. Rapid River falls into Umbagog Lake, and as 
this is a famous trouting region, I give a view of the camp, 
where the angler luxuriates on brook trout and spruce par- 
tridges, and rests from his day’s labor on a spring-bed. Trout 
of nine pounds’ weight each have been taken there, though I 
never took one which scaled much over six pounds. It was 
here that I met a new experience in the character of trout, 
and think it worth relating for the benefit of anglers. 
While I believe that trout are not generally so discrimin- 
ating in the selection of artificial flies as to evince acuteness 
of vision, yet I have experienced that at certain waters, when 
the streams are low and clear, a copy of the living fly is more 
