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if there was but one, though they are, in each instance, 
distinctly separated by a reach of the river, with its nar¬ 
row and rocky channel and its rapids. This lake, which 
is one of the largest, stretched northwest ten miles, to 
hills and mountains in the distance. McCauslin pointed 
to some distant, and as yet inaccessible, forests of white 
pine, on the sides of a mountain in that direction. The 
Joe Merry Lakes, which lay between us and Moose- 
head, on the west, were recently, if they are not still, 
“ surrounded by some of the best timbered land in the 
State.” By another thoroughfare we passed into Deep 
Cove, a part of the same lake, which makes up two 
miles, toward the northeast, and rowing two miles across 
this, by another short thoroughfare, entered Ambejijis 
Lake. 
At the entrance to a lake we sometimes observed 
what is technically called “ fencing stuff,” or the unhewn 
timbers of which booms are formed, either secured to¬ 
gether in the water, or laid up on the rocks and lashed 
to trees, for spring use. But it was always startling to 
discover so plain a trail of civilized man there. I re¬ 
member that I was strangely affected, when we were 
returning, by the sight of a ring-bolt well drilled into a 
rock, and fastened with lead, at the head of this solitary 
Ambejijis Lake. 
It was easy to see that driving logs must be an ex¬ 
citing as well as arduous and dangerous business. All 
winter long the logger goes on piling up the trees which 
he has trimmed and hauled in some dry ravine at the 
head of a stream, and then in the spring he stands on 
the bank and whistles for Bain and Thaw, ready to 
wring the perspiration out of his shirt to swell the tide, 
till suddenly, with a whoop and halloo from him, shut- 
