... . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the rai... ...he railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the ... ...aid down. Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pa... ... to travel this way. Our course here crossed the Penobscot, and followed the southern bank. One of the party, who en tered the house in search of som... ...eared. Having with some difficulty discovered the trail again, we kept up the south side of the West Branch, or main river, passing by some rapids call... ... opposed to the intelligence and refinement which are thought to emanate from cities, it would be among the rusty inhabitants of an old settled country... ... was printed before the boundary question was settled, this single Penobscot county, in which we were, was larger than the whole State of Vermont, wit... ...vered with shaggy spruce and other wild wood, — seen over the infant port of Greenville, with mountains on each side and far in the north, and a steam... ...oad, that is, one passable only when deep snow covers its inequalities, from Greenville up the east side of the lake to Lily Bay, about twelve miles. ...

...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobsco...