AMEEICAN CHAEES (B E O O K-T E O UT) 



stand in New England as prototypes of the beautiful Adirondack 

 group in New York. They hang in the hiUs of Maine like emer- 

 alds in a deeper emerald setting, from twelve hundred to fifteen 

 hundred feet above the Atlantic, covering an area of possibly 

 eighty square nules. They are also known as the Androscroggin 

 Lakes. They number sixty or more. Eanglely Lake or Lake 

 Oquossoc is about nine miles long, the forests about it uncon- 

 taminated, an outdoor man's paradise. Nearly as large is Lake 

 Mooselucmaguntic. Among the smaller lakes are Cupsuptic, Lake 

 MoUychunkamunk, five miles long, Lake Welokenebacook, which 

 you may call Lower Eichardson if the Indian name is a menace. 

 This attractive lake is narrow, but five miles in length. Not far 

 away is Lake Umbagog from which the white peaks of the White 

 Mountains of New Hampshire are seen, where Mount Washington 

 rears its peak six thousand feet in air, the dominant note of the 

 most beautiful part of New England. Half a mile above the sea 

 and thirty miles distant, is Lake Parmacheenee, from which the 

 American fl[y Parmacheenee Belle was named. Not connected 

 with the above, but the largest lake in Maine, is Moosehead Lake, 

 thirty-five miles long, from one to fifteen miles wide, and with 

 over four hundred miles of shore ; a splendid sheet of water 

 abounding in trout, while in the forests are caribou, deer, moose, 

 ruffled grouse and other game. All these lakes abound in camps 

 and clubs, and the angler has every convenience. He might be 

 thousands of nules from civilization, so primitive are the fine 

 forests, so uncontaminated the country in its depths ; yet the 

 great eastern cities, and Montreal and Quebec can be reached 

 in a few hours. 



The Blueback trout, or Eangeley Lake trout, Salvelinus 

 oguassa, rarely grows larger than twelve inches ; is long, slender 

 and very graceful, and has a forked taU, caUing to mind that of 

 the Japanese hucho. Its back is bluish-black ; the head small, 

 and the red, black, and yellow ' spots ' are vivid and found mainly 

 on the sides of the body. This charr is believed to be more hardy 

 than fontinalis. Their spawning habits are similar to those 



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