THE ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH. 
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Township Map of Maine,” which copies the former). By 
the maps there was not more than fifteen miles between 
camps, at the outside, and yet we had been busily pro¬ 
gressing all day, and much of the time very rapidly. 
For seven or eight miles below that succession of 
“ Grand ” falls, the aspect of the banks as well as the 
character of the stream was changed. After passing a 
tributary from the northeast, perhaps Bowlin Stream, 
we had good swift smooth water, with a regular slope, 
such as I have described. Low, grassy banks and 
muddy shores began. Many elms, as well as maples, 
and more ash trees overhung the stream, and supplanted 
the spruce. 
My lily-roots having been lost when the canoe was ta¬ 
ken out at a carry, I landed late in the afternoon, at a 
low and grassy place amid maples, to gather more. It 
was slow work grubbing them up amid the sand, and the 
mosquitoes were all the while feasting on me. Mosqui¬ 
toes, black flies, &c., pursued us in mid-channel, and we 
were glad sometimes to get into violent rapids, for then 
we escaped them. 
A red-headed woodpecker flew across the river, and 
the Indian remarked that it was good to eat. As we 
glided swiftly down the inclined plane of the river, a 
great cat-owl launched itself away from a stump on the 
bank, and flew heavily across the stream, and the Indian, 
as usual, imitated its note. Soon the same bird flew back 
in front of us, and we afterwards passed it perched on a 
tree. Soon afterward a white-headed eagle sailed down 
the stream before us. We drove him several miles, 
while we were looking for a good place to camp, for we 
expected to be overtaken by a shower, — and still we 
could distinguish him by his white tail, sailing away 
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