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Title: Camp life in the wilderness
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Farrar, Charles Alden John, d. 1893. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Camping
Publisher: Boston, A. Williams and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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est of this place. Come with me, I called, and I will show youHermit Falls and Silver-ripple Cascade. I led them a little way beyond the Den, and westood on the banks of Black Brook, which areformed of heavy masses of granite rock, scarred andseamed, and watched the water as it came tumbling,foaming, and swirling down between the roughsides, forming a pretty little fall; then flowingsmoothly a short distance, it breaks up and sweepsaver the bed-rock, forming a very beautiful cascade,and, a short distance below, emptying into a roundbasin in the rock, forming a handsome pool, some-thing like the Garnet Pool, tiear the Glen. House,only twice as large. They call this the Devils Caldron/ I said tothe Pathfinder, pointing to a whirlpool at the foot ofthe fall. I should think the devil had a mortgage on thisplace, he replied; everything seems to belong tohim. By Jove, Scribbler! cried the Artist to me, frombelow us; this is splendid. I mean to try andmake a sketch of this fall and cascade !
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Silver Ripple Cascade, Black Brook, Andover, Me. ON THE LAKE ROAD. 65 There is a good place for you to get a view ofthem, I replied, pointing to an immense boulderthat overhung the pool, and was situated just at thefoot of the cascade, on the opposite side from wherewe stood. Cross the brook higher up, and thenyou can get down to it. 11 Mozart, said the Governor, suppose you and Ithrow a fly here, while the Artist is making hissketch. All right! Ill run back to the team and get ourrods. We spent over an hour in this charming locality,and the Artist made two very good sketches, — oneof the cascade, the other of the falls. The Governor and Mozart were rewarded withtine trout for the time spent in fishing, and werepleased with their success. The fish averagedabout half a pound each in weight. Black Brook flows near the road for several miles,and is one of the best trout streams in the vicinityof Andover. While we were at the Den, two other teams arrivedat the turn-out with a party of s

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