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neying over his clearing only the livelong day. Here 
we concluded to spend the night, and wait for the In¬ 
dians, as there was no stopping-place so convenient 
above. He had seen no Indians pass, and this did not 
often happen without his knowledge. He thought that 
his dogs sometimes gave notice of the approach of In¬ 
dians half an hour before they arrived. 
McCauslin was a Kennebec man, of Scotch descent, 
who had been a waterman twenty-two years, and had 
driven on the lakes and head-waters of the Penobscot 
five or six springs in succession, but was now settled 
here to raise supplies for the lumberers and for himself. 
He entertained us a day or two with true Scotch hospi¬ 
tality, and would accept no recompense for it. A man 
of a dry wit and shrewdness, and a general intelligence 
which I had not looked for in the backwoods. In fact, 
the deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more in¬ 
telligent, and, in one sense, less countrified do you find 
the inhabitants ; for always the pioneer has been a trav¬ 
eller, and, to some extent, a man of the world; and, as 
the distances with which he is familiar are greater, so 
is his information more general and far reaching than 
the villagers. If I were to look for a narrow, unin¬ 
formed, and countrified mind, as opposed to the intelli¬ 
gence and refinement which are thought to emanate from 
cities, it would be among the rusty inhabitants of an old- 
settled country, on farms all run out and gone to seed 
with life-everlasting, in the towns about Boston, even 
on the high-road in Concord, and not in the backwoods 
of Maine. 
Supper was got before our eyes in the ample kitchen, 
by a fire which would have roasted an ox ; many whole 
logs, four feet long, were consumed to boil our tea-kettle, 
