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DEVOTED PRINCIPALLY TO THE LOCAL INTERESTS OF NORTH FRANKLIN, ITS SUMMER RESORTS, MOUNTAINS AND LAKES. Co*, MzUXE, g&TUBMY* J r LX go Lake lies about fourteen miles north of thev have visited the falls on the Kenne- i He hears greenhorn blundering through Cupsuptic, and is connected with the bago River. These are situated a mile the woods, stopping to growl at briers, atter by the Kennebago River, which j and a half from the outlet. The mile can , stopping to revive his courage with the serves as an outlet for its waters. J be done in a boat; then you land at the Dutch supplimont. The stag of ten trots awaits his foe in a glade. The foe arrives, sees the antlered monarch, and is §jjjg| panic-struck. He watch­ es him prance and strike the ground with his hoof. He slowly re covers heart and takes a pull at his flask, rests his gun upon a log and begins to study his mark. The stag will not stand still. Green­ horn is baffled. At last his tairget turns and care­ fully exposes that region of his body where green­ horn has read lies the heart. Just about to fire, lie catches the eye of the stag winking futility in­ to his elaborate aim.— His blunderbuss jerk s■ upward. A shower of cut leaves floats through die sm oke, iVom a tree THE RANGELEY LAKES. R A NT, ELF, Y LAKE HOUSE, R aNGELEY, Me . thirty feet overhead. Then, with a mild- From Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book. Kennebago is one of the prettiest lakes head of the rapids, and after walking half I eycd’ meli,ndH,1>’ look of reproachful con- 'HE chain of lakes known as the in the State of Maine, and it_has an ad­ a mile through the woods you will reach ' ll,e sta-r tun,s awa-v’ and wanders Rangeley Lakes lies near the the falls, which are more a series of heavy 1 off to sleep to quiet coverts far within the vantage over its sisters of the Rangeley western boundary of Maine, in rapids than a regular fall, but they are wood. He has fled, while for greenhorn Chain, from the fact that there is no dam Franklin and Oxford counties. well worth a visit. no trophy remains. Antlers have nodded at the foot of it; consequently its shores The lower lake of the chain, Parmachenee Lake lies about seventy | to tl,e 8Portsman 5 a s,1()rt tilil 1,ils disaP- are not overflowed, or covered with dead Liubaigog, is more than half in Coos miies north of Umbagog, in a vast wilder­ peared before his eyes ;—lie lias seen some trees. It runs east and west, and is al­ bounty, New Hampshire. The lakes are ness, that extends for miles beyond, j t , thing, but has nothing to show. Where­ most completely surrounded with high known severally, as Rangeley or Oquos- is connected with the latter lake by the upon he buys a couple of pairs of ancient mountains. Its shores arc thickly wood­ s°c, Cupsuptic, Mooselucmaguntie or the Magalloway River, which serves as its weather-bleached horns from some colo­ Great Lake, Mollychunkamunk or the ed. and there are several nice sand beach­ outlet. It is not so larg;e as the most of nist, and, nailing them up at impossible Lpper Richardson Lake, Welokenneba- es about it. Standing on the point at the the Rangeley Lakes, but, like Kennebago angles on the wall of his city den, hum­ head of the lake,near Grant & Richardson’s c°ok or the Lower Richardson Lake, and it has a peculiar beauty of its own. It is bugs brother-cockneys with tails of hunt­ ing, and lias for life his special legend, Gmbagog. These six lakes are all con­ Camp, you obtain a fine view, embracing fast coming into notice with sportsmen and nected by narrows or streams, forming nearly the entire sheet of water. On fishermen, and for that reason, further on, “How I shot my first deer in the Adiron- °Ue continuous water communication for your left is Spotted Mountain, which de- we have devoted several pages to it. Its dacks,” or at Rangeley Lakes, as the case may be. <l*Jout fifty miles. cends to the water, and extends along the waters are filled with trout, and the for­ Nowhere in this country will the peo­ The country about the northern, south- lake for several miles. On the right, a est about it abounds with every variety of ple afflicted with the “ camping out” fever ehi, and eastern shores of Rangeley and little ridge known as Wild Cat Hill, seems game, from the lively little squirrel to the find a more convenient or more pleasant southern shore of Umbago, is partial­ to confine the water on that side. Beyond . moose. The scenery in the local­ this is East Kennebago Mountain. West j ity js c place to gratify it than the Rangeley Lake ly cleared up, and some very good farms ity is onchating, and, being so far beyond Region. Here four of the indispensable Kennebago and Snow Mountains archil so j ^ hounds of civilization,there is a charm *‘ave been started; all the rest of the requisites of tent life, viz., good, clear plainly to be seen from this point. Some an(j romance jn visiting this lake that you tr>Untry in the lake region is an unbroken water, plenty of fire-wood, game, and of the most beautiful sunsets we kav e eveI' | wfil not meet with about the others, "■'Iderness, known only by the hunter or fish, are always to be found, and the cosy witnessed we saw at Iunncba0o J<1 c> i As a great many people seem to have an 11 tuber man. Game and fish in abundance little nooks and charming spots on the the view of lake and mountain ronl 11 < -jea that it requires no effort to catcli ten- ai"e found through all the district, and the shores of the lake, or the banks of the I'ttnber of adventurers who penetrate man’s Point during the sun s d*,( m0 *s | .)0Unj trout, or to shoot deer or moose,we simerb. W e do not try to describe it, tor j , . streams, each and all commanding some lkese rugged wilds in summer is every ^ .. rrnr, I assure them that patience and experience it wouldbe simply an impossibility, Ren- , picturesque view, where one can pitch a on the increase. The mountains are are both necessary requisites to success nebago is five or six miles long, and from tent, are simply innumerable. ^ell-covered with a growth of trees— in hunting and fishing. If one could be always sure of pleasant a quarter of a mile to a mile and a half *rch, beech, maple, ash,hepilock, spruce, Theodore Winthrop, in some of his writ­ weather, tent life would be relieved of its wide. Three miles above the lake is a r> cedar and pine, in the higher lands ; ings, has most happily taken off the green pond, known as Little Kennebago, where greatest drawback. But we cannot con- ^ along the cources of the streams, al- sportsinan in the Adirondack Region, and j trol the elements, whatever else we may there is good fishing. A light-draught . °8t impenetrable thickets of spruce, as what he lias so truthfully portrayed is bring under subjection. “ Camping out” boat can be run up the stream between ^tulock and cedar. The first affords equally applicable to the Lake Region of in a two or three days’ storm takes the the lake and the pond without much diffi­ ^ 6 most valuable timber, which is run culty. The Seven Ponds, a great place Maine, we give it here. He says :— good-nature out. of the most pleasant and °'Vn the various streams in the time of “ There, in the forest you see the stag philosophic individual. It is far worse for trout-fishing, are twelve miles north , l<; 8pring freshets, and thence across the lake. of Kennebago Lake, and may be reached often trots, coquetting with greenhorns. where there are ladies in the party than if He likes the excitement of being shot at it is composed entirely of gentlemen; easily by following up the stream from other lakes mentioned in this book, and missed. He enjoys the smell of pow- for although, the sterner sex can push Little Kennebago. Most people who go . , . , ^ not belonging to the Rangeley chain, to Kennebago Lake do not leave untill »der m a battle where he is always safe. about in the wet underbrush, and go fish- e *till connected with them. Kenneba- * \ 2 The Phillips Phonograph, a Live, Local P aper.-$1.00 per Year. ing in the rain, the ladies are compelled Original and Quoted. “The Man Who Went W est.’' to sit moping in a damp tent, and wish­ ing for nothing so much in the world as ■■=.............................. .... ■ It is stated that the centre of popula- to see the sun shine once more. Sixty Years Ago. moves Westward at the rate of ninety feet ONCE MORE! The writer has tried “ camping ” for a day, and is slowly passing across the Tnen we had great old times. But one several seasons; and while he does not southern portion of Ohio. It is evident, store in town, and rum enough sold and deny that there is a great deal of fun and therefore, that the “gorgeous East,” to drank to run a small saw-mill, with a enjoyment in it, still he holds to the which the West has hitherto looked for ANOTHER opinion that it is better and cheaper to good fall and an overshot wheel.

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