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it, and two tin dippers were our tea-cups. This bever- 
age is as indispensable to the loggers as to any gossiping 
old women in the land, and they, no doubt, derive great 
comfort from it. Here was the site of an old logger’s 
camp, remembered by McCauslin, now overgrown with 
weeds and bushes. In the midst of a dense underwood 
we noticed a whole brick, on a rock, in a small run, 
clean and red and square as in a brick-yard, which had 
been brought thus far formerly for tamping. Some of 
us afterward regretted that we had not carried this on 
with us to the top of the mountain, to be left there for our 
mark. It would certainly have been a simple evidence of 
civilized man. McCauslin said, that large wooden crosses, 
made of oak, still sound, were sometimes found standing 
in this wilderness, which were set up by the first Catholic 
missionaries who came through to the Kennebec. 
In the next nine miles, which were the extent of our 
voyage, and which it took us the rest of the day to get 
over, we rowed across several small lakes, poled up nu¬ 
merous rapids and thoroughfares, and carried over four 
portages. I will give the names and distances, for the 
benefit of future tourists. First, after leaving Ambejijis 
Lake, we had a quarter of a mile of rapids to the port¬ 
age, or carry of ninety rods around Ambejijis Falls; 
then a mile and a half through Passamagamet Lake, 
which is narrow and river-like, to the falls of the same 
name, — Ambejijis stream coming in on the right; then 
two miles through Katepskonegan Lake to the portage 
of ninety rods around Katepskonegan Falls, which name 
signifies “ carrying-place,” — Passamagamet stream com¬ 
ing in on the left; then three miles through Pockwocko- 
mus Lake, a slight expansion of the river, to the port¬ 
age of forty rods around the falls of the same name, — 
