... is unusual to find a camp so far in the woods at that season, when lumbering operations have ceased, and I was glad to avail myself of the circumstanc... ...e I was. This stream was much more unfrequented than the main one, lumbering operations being no longer carried on in this quarter. It was only three ... ... plainly a good deal of work was done. The oxen and horses used in lumbering operations were shod, and all the iron work of sleds, etc., was repaired ... ... East Branch I STARTED on my third excursion to the Maine woods Monday, July 20th, 1857, with one companion, arriving at Bangor the next day at noon. ... ... of the lumberer. They are of a social habit, growing in “veins,” “clumps,” “groups,” or “communities,” as the explorers call them, distinguishing the... ...e prot´ eg´ es of the rivers. These narrow and straggling bands and isolated groups are, in a sense, the pioneers of civilization. Birds, quadrupeds, ...

...enobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there. It is unusual to find a camp so far in the woods at that season, when lumbering operations have ceased, and I was glad to avail myself of the circumstance of a gang of men being employed there at that time in repairing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached...