Lake Umbagog
1907.
August
  Umbagog as seen from Upton Hill looks more like a 
broad and winding river than a lake for its greatest width
is but little more than a mile and its total length upwards
of twelve miles while it stretches towards any point of
the compass. It is immediately bordered for the most part by
low or only slightly elevated land which extends back for 
distances varying from a few hundred yards to a mile or more
before giving place to the hills and mountains that lie in
every direction, tier above tier, as far as the eye can reach.
In a few places, however, outlying spurs or ridges slope
steeply down to the very edge of the water. Everywhere, save
at the southern extremity of the lake and just below the Narrows,
where there are scattered forms, the shores are clothed in heavy 
forest which flows backward and upward in billowy waves of
verdure over all the neighboring hills and mountains. From Upton Hill
this forest seems unbroken and of boundless extent as, indeed,
it well may for it covers hundreds of square miles where the 
only open spaces are those found by lakes or rivers and it
stretches northward, practically without interruption save by these
and similarly natural springs, to the borders of Canada and
beyond a distance of more than fifty miles. It forms
a rich and appropriate setting for the shining lake and,
when viewed from above and at distances too great to
record the changes wrought by fire and by the lumbermen
it still presents, no doubt, much the same general aspect
as in the days - not so very long ago - when it was
known only to the Indians and to a few white hunters
and trappers. One loves to dwell on such a thought and
to picture in imagination these primitive men and
the game and fur-bearing animals they pursued. The Indians
are gone, of course, and the white hunters have lost much
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