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killed, apparently by inundations. There was consider¬ 
able native grass; and even a few cattle — whose move¬ 
ments we heard, though we did not see them, mistaking 
them at first for moose — were pastured there. 
On entering the lake, where the stream runs south¬ 
easterly, and for some time before, we had a view of the 
mountains about Ktaadn, (Katahdinauquoh one says 
they are called,) like a cluster of blue fungi of rank 
growth, apparently twenty-five or thirty miles distant, in 
a southeast direction, their summits concealed by clouds. 
Joe called some of them the Souadneunh mountains. 
This is the name of a stream there, which another In¬ 
dian told us meant “ Running between mountains.” 
Though some lower summits were afterward uncovered, 
we got no more complete view of Ktaadn while we were 
in the woods. The clearing to which we were bound 
was on the right of the mouth of the river, and was 
reached by going round a low point, where the water 
was shallow to a great distance from the shore. Che- 
suncook Lake extends northwest and southeast, and is 
called eighteen miles long and three wide, without an 
island. We had entered the northwest corner of it, and 
when near the shore could see only part way down it. 
The principal mountains visible from the land here were 
those already mentioned, between southeast and east, 
and a few summits a little west of north, but generally 
the north and northwest horizon about the St. John and 
the British boundary was comparatively level. 
Ansell Smith’s, the oldest and principal clearing about 
this lake, appeared to be quite a harbor for bateaux and 
canoes; seven or eight of the former were lying about, 
and there was a small scow for hay, and a capstan on a 
platform, now high and dry, ready to be floated and an- 
