Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine (1892) (14586593870)

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Title: Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Farrar, Charles Alden John, d. 1893
Subjects: New Hampshire -- Description and travel Maine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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rs waiting on the party to thebest of their ability. Bread and butter, cold meats, cheese, doughnuts,and tea comprised the meal, which was partaken of amid laughter andjests on all sides. The ladies were not used to such strong tea as Mr. Lowe brewed,and missed their accustomed milk. But the entire meal was a noveltyto them, and after the appetites they had awakened from their unusualexertions, they were little disposed to be fastidious. The party atefrom their hands, no dishes having been brought, with the exceptionof half a dozen tin dippers for the tea, and those were passed from 290 THROUGH THE WILDS. one to the other as occasion required. As Mr. Lowe said, It wasabout all he and the driver wanted to sack the grub up, withoutlugging dishes. When all had finished eating, an hour was devoted to sight-seeingand another to rambling to the farther peak and back. From the top of Mount Aziscohos you gaze upon a forest wilder-ness, bounded only by the blue sky in which it is lost. A grand
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DINNER ON AZISCOHOS. upheaval of mountain peaks and ranges, many of which are wooded totheir summits. Circle upon circle of billowy ridges, their tops green orgray, extending from beneath you to the utmost limit of your sight.This is the first impression of the view as it bursts upon your bewil-dered gaze. Afterward you have time to notice that between nearlyall of these mountains are ponds, lakes, or rivers. Indeed, I doubt ifthere is a mountain in New England from whose summit you can THROUGH THE WILDS. 291 distinctly see and count so many other mountains and so many piecesof water as from this one. I have cHmbed more than the averagenumber of mountains allotted to most men, and I have never found itsequal in this respect. I could not name half of the mountains andpieces of water seen from the summit of old Aziscohos, and I doubt ifit has ever been visited by any one who could. Some of the principal ranges and peaks seen and known are, theHalf-Moon, Dustan, Moose, Blue, Sawyer, Deer