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THE MAINE WOODS. 
thought tnat each fall we came to must be it, but after 
christening several in succession with this name, we gave 
up the search. There were more Grand or Petty Falls 
than I can remember. 
I cannot tell how many times we had to walk on ac¬ 
count of falls or rapids. We were expecting all the 
while that the river would take a final leap and get to 
smooth water, but there was no improvement this fore¬ 
noon. However, the carries were an agreeable variety. 
So surely as we stepped out of the canoe and stretched 
our legs we found ourselves in a blueberry and raspberry 
garden, each side of our rocky trail around the falls being 
lined with one or both. There was not a carry on the 
main East Branch where we did not find an abundance 
of both these berries* for these were the rockiest places, 
and partially cleared, such as these plants prefer, and 
there had been none to gather the finest before us. 
In our three journeys over the carries, for we were. 
obliged to go over the ground three times whenever the 
canoe was taken out, we did full justice to the berries, and 
they were just what we wanted to correct the effect of 
our hard bread and pork diet. Another name for making 
a portage would have been going a berrying. We also 
found a few Amelanchier , or service berries, though most 
were abortive, but they held on rather more generally 
than they do in Concord. The Indian called them 
Pemoymenuk , and said that they bore much fruit in some 
places. He sometimes also ate the northern wild red 
cherries, saying that they were good medicine, but they 
were scarcely edible. 
We bathed and dined at the foot of one of these car¬ 
ries. It was the Indian w T lio commonly reminded us that 
it was dinner-time, sometimes even by turning the prow 
