Identifier: throughwildsreco00farrrich (find matches)
Title: Through the wilds; a record of sport and adventure in the forests of New Hampshire and Maine
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Farrar, Charles Alden John, d. 1893
Subjects: New Hampshire -- Description and travel Maine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s here, the train moved onward again, and made a run ofabout seven miles to West Paris. From this village to the nextstation the grade of the road is very heavy, and the boys thoughtseveral times that the train would stop, so slowly did it move.But the engine, puffing and panting with all its strength, heldsteadily to its work, and finally the steepest part of the gradewas passed, and, with increased speed, the train rushed alonguntil it reached the Bryants Pond Station. Here is a pretty little hamlet, nestled among the mountains.The party were very much taken with the pond, some two milesin length, on the left of the railroad, overshadowed by a per-pendicular bluff. Mount Christopher, several hundred feet in height, THROUGH THE WILDS. 57 and were almost tempted to stop here and try their luck atfishing. But, after a short argument, concluded to keep on toGorham. With two short whistles the train bade farewell to BryantsPond, and skirting two or three other small sheets of water, each
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BRYANTS POND, MAINE. attractive in itself, shortly reached Lockes Mills, where only amomentary halt was made. Then hurrying onward again for afew miles, slowed down at Bethel, where the boys caught theirfirst glimpse of the Androscoggin River, one of the most charmingand picturesque streams in New England. This station is theprincipal point of departure for the Androscoggin Lakes, overthe most direct route. A daily stage runs from this point to the 58 THROUGH THE WILDS. Lakeside Hotel. Cambridge, at the foot of Lake Umbagog, con-necting with a daily line of steamers on the lake. The roadpasses through Grafton Notch, and is deservedly popular fromits wild and romantic mountain scenery, appealing to the artisticsense of all lovers of the beautiful. This is a very pretty countr)-, remarked George, as the train left the Bethel station. Could anything be more lovely than

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