Life in the woods for a fortnight : or a trip to Katahdin & Moosehead Lake in the summer of 1856. 1856.

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Life in the woods for a fortnight : or a trip to Katahdin & Moosehead Lake in the summer of 1856. 1856.

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Journal of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch recording a trip he took from Aug. 9 to Aug. 25, 1856, from Bangor, Maine, to Moosehead Lake, then down the West Branch of the Penobscot River to Mount Katahdin. Accompanying Bowditch were John W. Browne, a lawyer; Bowditch's son, Nathaniel Bowditch; and his nephews E. Francis Bowditch, Henry Bowditch and Charles P. Bowditch. A letter, June 14, 1856, to Henry Bowditch from James C. White, accompanying the journal, describes the journey and its arrangements in detail.

138, [1] p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

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