This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...are especially fine. The broad sweep of the lake, the farms, the forests, the surrounding mountains, combine in forming a picture of rare beauty. The house accommodates some 250 guests, is modern in all its appointments, and near the best fishing grounds. It is a decided success under the excellent supervision of Mr. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...are especially fine. The broad sweep of the lake, the farms, the forests, the surrounding mountains, combine in forming a picture of rare beauty. The house accommodates some 250 guests, is modern in all its appointments, and near the best fishing grounds. It is a decided success under the excellent supervision of Mr. Marble, the President of the Rangeley Lakes Hotel Company. Rangeley being the distributing point of this section, the importance of a first-class hotel, like the Rangeley Lake House, is at once apparent. The elevation of this lake is about 2,000 feet above sea level. The pure air and sparkling spring water make it a most desirable place to pass a summer's outing. Bald Head, previously mentioned, is a mountain easy to climb, a good path having been cut to the top, and the view is wonderful. It is proposed to build a log camp on its summit and erect a tower near by, so that parties can camp over night to witness the sunrise, and from the tower obtain a view in all directions without going from one place to another to look through the trees. KENNEBAGO LAKE. In the most central part of Rangeley's wilderness, eight miles from that beautiful village, on fair Oquossoc's shore, lies Kennebago Lake. At the terminus of the buckboard route is the Kennebago Lake House, so well and favorably known by all frequenters. Here you can remain and enjoy all the comforts of a first-class hotel; you have a daily mail from Rangeley; everything for the excellent table comes in fresh each day, and Richardson Brothers, the proprietors, will entertain you right royally. If you desire a rougher, camp life they have furnished camps scattered about the region, at the numerous ponds and down the lake, where you can enjoy a more primitive life and be as much in the wilderness...
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