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exactly like that of the great rocky ridge at the com¬ 
mencement of the Burnt Ground, ten miles northwesterly. 
The same arrangement prevailed here, and we could 
plainly see that the mountain ridges on the west of the 
lake trended the same way. Splendid large harebells 
nodded over'the edge and in the clefts of the cliff, and 
the blueberries (Vaccinium Canadense ) were for the 
first time really abundant in the thin soil on its top. 
There was no lack of them henceforward on the East 
Branch. There was a fine view hence over the spark¬ 
ling lake, which looked pure and deep, and had two or 
three, in all, rocky islands in it. Our blankets being dry, 
we set out again, the Indian as usual having left his 
gazette on a tree. This time it was we three in a canoe, 
my companion smoking. We paddled southward down 
this handsome lake, which appeared to extend nearly as 
far east as south, keeping near the western shore, just 
outside a small island, under the dark Nerlumskeechti - 
cook mountain. For I had observed on my map that 
this was the course. It was three or four miles across it. 
It struck me that the outline of this mountain on the 
southwest of the lake, and of another beyond it, was not 
only like that of the huge rock waves of Webster Stream, 
but in the main like Kineo, on Moosehead Lake, having 
a similar but less abrupt precipice at the southeast end; 
in short, that all the prominent hills and ridges here¬ 
abouts were larger or smaller Kineos, and that possibly 
there was such a relation between Kineo and the rocks of 
Webster Stream. 
The Indian did not know exactly where the outlet 
was, whether at the extreme southwest angle or more 
easterly, and had asked to see my plan at the last stop¬ 
ping-place, but I had forgotten to show it to him. As 
