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THE MAINE WOODS. 
Katepskonegan stream coming in on the left; then three 
quarters of a mile through Aboljacarmegus Lake, simi¬ 
lar to the last, to the portage of forty rods around the 
falls of the same name ; then half a mile of rapid water 
to the Sowadnehunk dead-water, and the Aboljacknagesic 
stream. 
This is generally the order of names as you ascend the 
river: First, the lake, or, if there is no expansion, the 
dead-water; then the falls; then the stream emptying 
into the lake, or river above, all of the same name. First 
we came to Passamagamet Lake, then to Passamagamet 
Falls, then to Passamagamet stream, emptying in. This 
order and identity of names, it will be perceived, is quite 
philosophical, since the dead-water or lake is always at 
least partially produced by the stream emptying in above; 
and the first fall below, which is the outlet of that lake, 
and where that tributary water makes its first plunge, 
also naturally bears the same name. 
At the portage around Ambejijis Falls I observed a 
pork-barrel on the shore, with a hole eight or nine inches 
square cut in one side, which was set against an upright 
rock; but the bears, without turning or upsetting the 
barrel, had gnawed a hole in the opposite side, which 
looked exactly like an enormous rat hole, big enough to 
put their heads in; and at the bottom of the barrel were 
still left a few mangled and slabbered slices of pork. It 
is usual for the lumberers to leave such supplies as they 
cannot conveniently carry along with them at carries or 
camps, to which the next comers do not scruple to help 
themselves, they being the property, commonly, not of 
an individual, but a company, who can afford to deal 
liberally. 
I will describe particularly how we got over some of 
