Lake Umbagog
1907
August 7
  Sunny and warm with light S.W. wind. Two thunder
showers in the evening.
Cambridge River and B. Meadows
  I spent the day up Cambridge River with Alva Coolidge.
The chief object of the trip was to ascertain what changes
if any, had taken place since my last visit and to the
characteristic trees, shrubs, flowering plants, ferns etc which grow
on or very near the banks of the stream. The day was simply 
perfect for such an expedition - just warm enough to be delightful,
with a light breeze. We went up as far as the "stacking place"
in the middle of B. Meadows where we ate lunch. It was rather
too hot there for the river was bordered by beds of rank grass which
intercepted the breeze. But after we reached the woods on our
way back the temperature in the shade was just right for
comfort. As we alternately paddled and floated down spending
most of the afternoon between the Forks and the Mill, the
river seemed to me, if anything, more beautiful than ever before.
I was agreeably surprised to find it so little changed. The
poplars on the high ridge bordering B. Meadows on the north
have been cut but nowhere else did I detect any recent
injury to the forests by the lumbermen. The south side of
the meadows is still broadly belted with "black growth" and
there are very many fine tall balsams and white spruces close
to the river below the Forks. Taken as a whole the scenery
all the way from the Mill in Upton to the head of B. Meadows
has changed very little in the past ten years whereas that
about Lake Umbagog has undergone very general and deplorable
change, at least when the forests are viewed near at hand.
  We saw Deer tracks everywhere. In a barrel set in a spring
we found a large Skunk and a full grown Hare, which had been 
dead a long time. Alva thought the Hare fell in and the Skunk
jumped in deliberately to get at the Hare.