Woods and Lakes of Maine: A Trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a Birch-bark Canoe : to which are Added Some Indian Place-names and Their Meanings Now First Published |
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Woods and Lakes of Maine: A Trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a ... Luther Prescott Hubbard No preview available - 2018 |
Woods and Lakes of Maine: A Trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a ... Luther Prescott Hubbard No preview available - 2017 |
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Allagash Allagash Lake Allagaskwigamook Aroostook bank bark beaver birch birch-bark birchen brook bucket called camp canoe Captain caribou cedar Chamberlain Lake Charley Smith Chesuncook Chesuncook Lake cove dead-water Depot Farm distance Eagle Lake East falls feet fire foot forest gami-k ground guides half Harrington Lake head horns hunter inches Indian name INDIAN PLACE-NAMES island Joe's John River ki-k Ktaadn land latter load Lobster Lake lodge loggers loon Maine Maliseet Mattawamkeag River miles Moose River Moosehead Lake morning Mount Kineo mountain mouth Mud Pond Carry muskrat Musquacook night o'clock opposite outlet pack paddle Pennowit Penob Penobscot pitch Râle Rand rapids reached rock rods Sartor seemed shore side Silas snow soon Spencer Mountains sticks stream swōsh Telos tent trap trees tributary trout Umbazookskus West Branch wind woods word writer Xsébem
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Page 194 - ... River, Mississippi. An Indian word, meaning "tumbling water." Amalthea; village in Franklin County, Ohio, named for the nurse of Jupiter. Amarg-osa; river in California. A Spanish word, meaning " bitter water." Ambajeejus; lake, and falls in the Penobscot River, Maine. An Indian word, referring to the two large, round rocks in the lake, one on top of the other. Ambajemackomas; fall in the Penobscot River, Maine. An Indian word, meaning "little cross pond.
Page 20 - A New Map of the Province of Quebec according to the Royal Proclamation of the 7th of October, 1763, from the French Surveys connected with those made after the war, by Captain Carver and other Officers in His Majesty's Service.
Page 76 - The farm, which has grown to large proportions, is now owned by Hon. ES Coe of Bangor, and on it are raised yearly large numbers of cattle and sheep, and also potatoes, grain, and vegetables. So well do sheep thrive there, that a short time before our arrival one became so fat that, in the words of the superintendent, Mr. Nutter, they "had to kill him to save his life; couldn't lug himself around.
Page 25 - Indian imagination, however, did not stop here. The two main arms of the lake, which extend north and south, one on each side of the " moose," with their numberless bays and coves, form the animal's antlers with broad blades and branching prongs.
Page 135 - But he uses his tail to pack and compress mud and earth while constructing a lodge or dam, which he effects by heavy and repeated down strokes.
Page 73 - It filled a tray about two and a half feet long by one and a half feet wide and about five inches deep.
Page 23 - While on his way through the forests, one day, he came upon two moose, hurriedly dropped his pack, and started in pursuit of them. The smaller moose, Kineo Mountain, was soon overtaken and killed. The chief, after boiling some of the meat, turned his kettle upside down, so that it should not rust, took up the trail of the larger moose, and followed the latter down to Castine, where he killed and dressed it.
Page 36 - Who can describe the sweetness of that first whiff of forest aroma ! The drying branches of some prostrate fir-tree load the air with a fragrance one would fain drink in in never-ending draughts. Our old friends, the birches, nod a joyous welcome, as they rustle in the rising breeze. The bushes, berries, wild-flowers, mosses and lichens, all revive some pleasant memory. Our pulses throb with new life, our step grows elastic, and we are already creatures of a different mould from yesterday.
Page 32 - ... Pennsylvania, of a family which had lived for three generations in Pennsylvania, his father being of Dutch, and his mother of Irish descent. From the public school he entered the State College in Center County, but left before graduation to join the Union Army, in which he enlisted as a private; serving until the end of the war he was mustered out of the service with the rank of captain of volunteers. After crossing the plains to New Mexico in 1866, he returned to Pennsylvania, and then going...
Page 55 - The act of running rapids in a canoe is always exhilarating. To a person of good nerves who tries it for the first time, it is apt to be nothing but pleasurable ; but one who knows its dangers never enters upon it without some slight fear or trepidation. And yet, the danger passed, one is ever ready to face it again — with a skilful steersman.