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From: Sierra
Date: 19951101
Author:Gorman, Stephen

The Maine woods includes the Allagash Wilderness Waterway and Baxter State Park. The area offers scenic views and waterways for canoeists. Bears, eagles, loons, and moose inhabit the Maine woods.

"What a place to live! What a place to die and be buried in!" exclaimed Henry David Thoreau in The Maine Woods after canoeing his way through Allagash and Penobscot river country. "What is most striking is the continuousness of the forest," he wrote. "Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals of the rivers, the bare to s of the high mountains and the lakes, the forest is uninterrupted." ...

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