THE ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH. 
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Saturday, July 25. 
At breakfast this Saturday morning, the Indian, evi¬ 
dently curious to know what would be expecte.d of him 
the next day, whether we should go along or not, asked 
me how I spent the Sunday when at home. I told him 
that I commonly sat in my chamber reading, etc., in the 
forenoon, and went to walk in the afternoon. At which 
he shook his head and said, “ Er, that is ver bad.” “ How 
do you spend it ? ” I asked. He said that he did no 
work, that he went to church at Oldtown when he was at 
home; in short, he did as he had been taught by the 
whites. This led to a discussion in which I found my¬ 
self in the minority. He stated that he was a Protestant, 
and asked me if I was. I did not at first know what to 
say, but I thought that I could answer with truth that I 
was. 
When we were washing the dishes in the lake, many 
fishes, apparently chivin, came close up to us to get the 
particles of grease. 
The weather seemed to be more settled this morning, 
and we set out early in order to finish our voyage up the 
lake before the wind arose. Soon after starting the In¬ 
dian directed our attention to the Northeast Carry, which 
we could plainly see, about thirteen miles distant in that 
direction as measured on the map, though it is called 
much farther. This carry is a rude wooden railroad, 
running north and south about two miles, perfectly 
straight, from the lake to the Penobscot, through a low 
tract, with a clearing three or four rods wide; but low as 
it is, it passes over the height of land there. This open¬ 
ing appeared as a clear bright, or light point in the hori¬ 
zon, resting on the edge of the lake, whose breadth a hair 
could have covered at a considerable distance from the 
