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<Author>Thoreau, Henry David</Author>
<Title>The Maine Woods</Title>
<Edition>[Prose Works. Selections.] Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1985</Edition>
<Date>1858</Date>
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<i>Ktaadn</i> (1)
<p>On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts
for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and
steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the
lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the
Penobscot, in which property he was interested. From this place,
which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty
miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last
log-hut, I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second
highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to
some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either . . .
