Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book to the Androscoggin Lakes: And the Head-waters of the Connecticut, Magalloway, and Androscoggin Rivers ... |
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Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book to the Androscoggin Lakes: And the Head ... Charles Alden John Farrar No preview available - 2016 |
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Accommodates Andover ANDROSCOGGIN LAKES Androscoggin River beautiful Bemis Stream Bethel boat Boston to Portland brook brook trout Bryant's Pond Cambridge caribou CHAPTER Colebrook Concord Connecticut connection Cupsuptic River depot Dixville Notch dollars ELLIS RIVER Errol Dam Excursion Falls Farmington feet fifty fish forest furnished Gorham Grand Trunk Railway Groveton Junction guests hill hundred Indian Rock KENNEBAGO LAKE killed lake region Lake Umbagog Lake Welokennebacook Lakeside large number leave Magalloway River Maine Middle Dam Middle Dam Camp miles from Portland MOLECHUNKAMUNK moose morning North Stratford Oquossoc outlet party pass penalty person pleasant proprietor R. R. L. T. Co.'s steamers rail Railroad Rangeley Lakes reach ride road rods route salmon scenery season SECT shore short distance side South Arm stop summer summit Sunday Cove tickets town train trip trout Tuttle & Perkins UMBAGOG LAKE Upper Dam Landing vicinity village White Mountains woods
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Page 320 - Bangor to the boundary line between the State of Maine and the Province of New Brunswick, and unites the railroads of the United States and Maritime Provinces.
Page 40 - If not successful, lose no time; but, to imitate respiration, place the patient on his face, and turn the body gently, but completely, on the side, and a little beyond; then again on the face, and so on, alternately.
Page 40 - ... aid the return of venous blood to the heart.) 8th. Substitute for the patient's wet clothing, if possible, such other covering as can be instantly procured, each bystander supplying a coat or cloak, etc. Meantime, and from time to time, to excite inspiration, let the surface of the body be slapped briskly with the hand. 9th. Rub the body briskly till it is dry and warm, then dash cold water upon it, and repeat the rubbing.
Page 39 - In order to clear the throat, place the patient gently on the face, with one wrist under the forehead, that all fluid, and the tongue itself, may fall forward, and leave the entrance into the windpipe free.
Page 107 - Man keeps up to his highest elations hardly longer than a danseuse can poise in a pose. To be conscious of the highest beauty demands an involuntary intentness of observation so fanatically eager that presently we are prostrated and need stimulants. And just as we sensitively felt this exhaustion and this need, we heard a suggestive voice calling us from the front.-door of the mansion-house of Damville, and "Supper
Page 292 - ... of landlocked salmon or trout, or of both together, nor shall any such be transported except in the possession of the owner thereof, under a penalty of fifty dollars for the offence, and five dollars for...
Page 93 - Fair Mollychunkamug had not smiled for us until now ; — now a sunny grin spread over her smooth cheeks. She was all smiling, and presently, as the breeze dimpled her, all a "snicker" up into the roots of her hair, up among her foresttresses. Mollychunkamug ! Who could be aught but gay, gay even to the farcical, when on such a name ? Is it Indian ? Bewildered Indian we deem it, — transmogrified somewhat from aboriginal sound by the fond imagination of some lumberman, finding in it a sweet memorial...
Page 283 - ... such officer shall issue a warrant for the seizure of the forfeited articles, which, when seized, shall be sold on one day's notice, and the proceeds paid to the overseers of the poor for the use of the poor of the town or city.
Page 287 - ... be heard as soon as practicable on a week day following the arrest. In case the offender fails to give bond for his appearance (if any bond be required), the court may order him committed to the jail of the county, or to some other suitable place until the time set for the hearing of the complaint. It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs...
Page 154 - ... rivet gun around his feet. If he moves more than a step or two in any direction, he is gone, and if he loses his balance backward he is apt to end up at street level without time to walk. And the object is to catch a red-hot iron rivet weighing anywhere from a quarter of a pound to a pound and a half and capable, if he lets it pass, of drilling an automobile radiator or a man's skull 500 feet below as neatly as a shank of shrapnel. Why more rivets do not fall is the great mystery of skyscraper...