Lake Umbagog.
1908.
August
  Some of the smaller indentations and at least two
of the larger ones - viz. B Brook Cove and Sunday Cove - have
bold, rocky shores and, at every season, a fair depth of water.
In others - including Sweat Cove, the largest of them all - the
shores are low in many places and the shallow water often
widely bordered in summer and early autumn by extensive
muddy or grassy flats. Still others - as Tyler Cove and
Sturdevant Cove - posses both sets of conditions in combination
with perhaps here and there a broad beach of white sand,
sure to be marked with the foot prints of Deer
and occasionally with those of some wandering Moose.
  Excepting at high stages of water only a very few
of the coves are navigable for steamers and scores of the
lesser and more inconspicuous ones remain almost unknown, save
to local duck hunters, muskrat trappers and pickerel fishermen.
Partly for this reason and also because of the wild and
picturesque character of their environment many of them
impress one deeply with a sense of seclusion and of remoteness
very soothing to tired human nerves. Being less often
disturbed than are the central reaches of the lake
they are more frequented by large birds and mammals.
Eagles and Ospreys are wont to hover over them, looking for
fish; Ducks and Herons to swim or wade in their weedy
shallows; Foxes come at morning and evening to trot along their grassy margins, searching
for meadow mice; and Deer by night to feed on the roots of the
yellow water lilies which flourish wherever the bottom is soft
and muddy. Indeed there are few furred or feathered creatures
found in the region about the lake which may not
be seen at the right hour and season in one or
another of its coves.