OLD SHAG. 
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is really less of a slope than of a continuous 
precipice nearly three thousand feet from sum¬ 
mit to plain. In these almost inaccessible for¬ 
ests several birds from the Canadian fauna are 
occasionally found. I have seen there in sum¬ 
mer both kinds of the three-toed woodpeckers; 
Canada grouse or spruce partridges have been 
shot there this autumn, and the moose-bird, or 
Canada jay, is occasionally seen near the lum¬ 
ber camps. 
In descending a mountain in the afternoon 
which has been climbed in the morning, many 
new effects of light and shade, color, and even 
of outline, are observable. This may be puz¬ 
zling to the guide who does not thoroughly know 
his path, but it is the one redeeming feature in 
a homeward scramble to those who are weary 
enough to regard their second view of a moun¬ 
tain-side as an anti-climax to the triumphant 
ascent of a new peak. Paugus Falls were more 
beautiful with the pallor of the afternoon around 
them, than they were with the southeastern sun 
shining into their rushing bubbles. They were 
whiter and the water consequently looked 
greater in volume. Again we wondered how 
such rare beauty could have been hidden so 
long in an untrodden forest, and, wondering, 
we blazed the trees so that those who might 
come after us could follow without perplexity 
