The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-08-19
Letter from WI oossheud Lake.

M0OsEHEAD LAKE, Aug. lO, 1869.
To the Editor OF the Press:
Ii you, or any of your friends, wish to re gale
yourselves on the delicious trout that was new
er so plenty in lake, pond or stream as this
year, now is you time. The black q es were
done gone fortnight ago, and now there
are no drawbacks to "a life in the woods for
me- The man IN search OF recreation can take
t just al bout he pleases. He can live in one
of the two comfortable hotels at the foot oi the
lake aud make excursions up that handsome
sheet of water in steamer, sailing yacht or
birch, and bring home as bga string Of trout
as ne will care 10 carry. Or supplying HIM
self with the necessary provisions at one OF the
two stores at the loot of The lake, he may take
II guide and plunge into the wild woods and
enjoy nature far from the habitations OF men.
From The accounts had of the AdirondackS,
do not doubt that the woods and mouA tains The
skes, ponds and strtan of his section o. Maine
are ,more desirable resort Tor summer aud au-
tumh Than the more famous wild OF New York
State. Here one gets all the advantages of liv-
ing in the wild wood and oreathiDg he heal
ing atmosphere OF pine and fir, without being
exposed to odanger and with the smallest amouht
OF fatigue. A delightful excursion can be
had by taking steamer at Portland Tor Ban
gor rail from there to Dexler,a and then ride of
seven or eight hours by stage, will place tie
traveller at the foot of the Lake. The stage
does not leave Dexter till the arrival OF the
morning train and the passengers have dined.
Those arriving by the afternoon train must
wait over till the next day at noon. The
Maine Central Railroad is selling excursion
tickets to Moosehead Lake, good till late in
October, and just now the owner of the little
steamer "Fairy of the Lake, is making excur-
sions to the head of the lake every other day,
beginning to-day, the fsro being two-thirds the
regular price.
1t may be carrying Goals to Newcastle to
tell you anything about the scenery of NJ oose-
head; but will simply say that no other twen-
ty miles Of water in the United States pre-
sents as beautiful scenery as the twenty miles
Of Moosehead lake from its foot up to Mt. Kin
neo In that distance you have bays as tne
as Diamond cove; you have handsome farms
cut out of the almost imitless woods; you
have hills rising into mountains, and one noun
tain rising above another till we see Katah-
din towering above them all, 53S5 feet high
And all these hills and mountains, with the
vast territory stretching out between them, are
covered with woods which to the eye appears
unbroken by clearings.
Mt Kinneo itself is picturesque object.
In the distance it looks like an enormous
sperm whale stranded in the middle OF the
lake with his head to the eastward. On
near approach this head proves to be
an overhanging crag of bare rock, the brow OF
which is 900 feet above the waters of the lake,
affording better lovers leap than that in
lake Pepin on the Mississippi river. But
NAV here add that the lovers of Piscataquis
county are too sensible to quench their pas
sion in cold water; but on the contrary, brav-
ing squalls of all sorts, they embark ON the sea
of matrimony and in due time reach the coast
of happiness and anchor in the port of inde-
pendence with a noble crew of boys and girls.
Here will let go my anchor, and bidding
you a. -Dios, subscribe myself
Yours truly, J.S.