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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1 : Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
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Chapter 3: Journeys
In 1855 the Worcester pastor with a few friends took a trip to Mount Katahdin.
This jaunt he described in a current number of Putnam's magazine.
These bits of description are taken from his letters home:
Mattawaumkeag, Maine, Stopping to tea September 5, 1855
We see Katahdin gloriously all day-pale blue, finer than Monadnock, with vast scars of slides down the sides.
All say we can go to the mountain easily and partway up, at least.
Lake Camp (Camp No. 2) Outlet Wissatacook Lake September 8, 1855 Dearest Mother:
The dotted line [in a sketch] is a lake about half a mile broad; beyond this are woods stretching up to the bare magnificent top of Katahdin — some four miles from us in an air line, but ten by our pathway.
Yesterday we walked about nine miles, seven harder ones to-day; seven more to-morrow bring us to our highest camp halfway up at the foot of a slide.... Thence we ascend on Monday morning, thus making an easy day's work, these two days.