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load of furs, contending day and night, night and day, 
with the shaggy demon vegetation, travelling through the 
mossy graveyard of trees. Or he could go by “that 
rough tooth of the sea,” Kineo, great source of arrows 
and of spears to the ancients, when weapons of stone 
were used. Seeing and hearing moose, caribou, bears, 
porcupines, lynxes, wolves, and panthers. Places where 
he might live and die and never hear of the United 
States, which make such a noise in the world, — never 
hear of America, so called from the name of a European 
gentleman. 
There is a lumberer’s road called the Eagle Lake 
road, from the Seboois to the east side of this lake. It 
may seem strange that any road through such a wilder¬ 
ness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow 
is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever 
lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are 
continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as 
smooth almost as a railway. I am told that in the Aroos¬ 
took country the sleds are required by law to be of one 
width, (four feet,) and sleighs must be altered to fit the 
track, so that one runner may go in one rut and the other 
follow the horse. Yet it is very bad turning out. 
We had for some time seen a thunder-shower coming 
up from the west over the woods of the island, and heard 
the muttering of the thunder, though we were in doubt 
whether it would reach us ; but now the darkness rapidly 
increasing, and a fresh breeze rustling the forest, we 
hastily put up the plants which we had been drying, and 
with one consent made a rush for the tent material and 
set about pitching it. A place was selected and stakes 
and pins cut in the shortest possible time, and we were 
pinning it down lest it should be blown away, when the 
storm suddenly burst over us. 
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