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dian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its 
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head-waters in the Adirondac country. 
Have we even so much as discovered and settled the 
shores ? Let a man travel on foot along the coast, from 
the Passamaquoddy to the Sabine, or to the Bio Bravo, 
or to wherever the end is now, if he is swift enough to 
overtake it, faithfully following the windings of every 
inlet and of every cape, and stepping to the music of 
the surf, — with a desolate fishing-town once a week, 
and a city’s port once a month to cheer him, and putting 
up at the light-houses, when there are any, — and tell 
me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and 
not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and 
No-man’s Land. 
We have advanced by leaps to the Pacific, and left 
many a lesser Oregon and California unexplored behind 
us. Though the railroad and the telegraph have been 
established on the shores of Maine, the Indian still 
looks out from her interior mountains over all these to 
the sea. There stands the city of Bangor, fifty miles 
up the Penobscot, at the head of navigation for vessels 
of the largest class, the principal lumber depot on this 
continent, with a population of twelve thousand, like a 
star on the edge of night, still hewing at the forests of 
which it is built, already overflowing with the luxuries 
and refinement of Europe, and sending its vessels to 
Spain, to England, and to the West Indies for its gro¬ 
ceries, — and yet only a few axe-men have gone “ up 
river,” into the howling wilderness which feeds it. The 
bear and deer are still found within its limits; and the 
moose, as he swims the Penobscot, is entangled amid 
its shipping, and taken by foreign sailors in its harbor. 
Twelve miles in the rear, twelve miles of railroad, are 
