Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1895
Sept. 23            
  Clear with stormy S. W. wind. Still warmer than yesterday                             
Ther. 88 [degrees] at noon.
[margin]A day down
the Lake near
Great Island[/margin]             
  We all went down the Lake in the early morning C. & E.R.S.
rowed by Will in one of the Carp boats, I with Jim in the other.
After landing on Metalluc Island, where I took took [sic] photographs             
and found a White-throated & Song Sparrow to be the only bird residents,
we rowed through the channel at the head of Great Island - startling          
fifteen or twenty Black Ducks from the deep cover there - and
landed for lunch on the west shore of the Sweat Cove. After                               
lunch we rowed to the head of the cove and back into the                                
Lake where Jim & I hoisted sail and sped rapidly on our                                      
way back to camp which we reached at 4 P.M. having made the                        
distance from Metalluc Island (three miles) in just half-an-hour.
[margin]Birds seen on
Metalluc
Island.[/margin]
[margin]Sail up the
lake in
big, open
boat.[/margin]
  I took about a dozen photographs during the forenoon most 
of them at or near the north end of Great Island.
  At the spot where we lunched I started a Partridge from a                                  
mountain ash loaded with berries on which the bird was
doubtless feeding. I followed him far back into the woods on 
the mountain side but he was very shy & I failed to get
even a flying shot.
[margin]Partridge[/margin]
  Two Eagles, a Sharp-shinned Hawk, and four Great Blue Herons             
are the only large birds seen in the Sweat Cove besides the
Black Ducks which we kept starting.
[margin]Large birds.[/margin]                