The French Canadians are not addicted to the vice of drinking ardent spirits as a people, although the lumberers and voyageurs shorten their lives very considerably by the use of whiskey.
But the woods generally disappoint travellers, as they never penetrate them; and the lumberers have cut down all available pines and oaks within reach of the settlements, excepting where they were not worth the expence of transport.
I wandered into the lonely but beautiful forest, with a companion who owned the soil, and who had told me that the lumberers were robbing him and every settler around of their best pine timber.
The lumberers said that they came round their camps, and they gave them a vulgar name.
We also heard the hylodes and tree-toads, and the lumberers singing in their camp a quarter of a mile off.
This was the first house above Chesuncook, and was built here, no doubt, because it was the route of the lumberers in the winter and spring.
It is surprising on stepping ashore anywhere into this unbroken wilderness to see so often, at least within a few rods of the river, the marks of the axe, made by lumberers who have either camped here or driven logs past in previous springs.
The lumberers told me that there were many moose hereabouts, but no caribou or deer.
The explorers and lumberers generally are all hirelings, paid so much a day for their labor, and as such they have no more love for wild nature than wood-sawyers have for forests.
Here, the ice being clear, we put on our skates, and glided merrily along towards the spot where we understood the lumbererswere at work.
The smoke of the fire goes out through a hole in the roof, and the floor is strewn with branches of fir, the only couch the poor hardworking lumberers have to rest upon.
The great ugly masses of floating timber move slowly along under the care of a pilot, and the lumberersride upon the rafts, often without shelter or protection from the weather.
That he has received money from lumberers for passing rafts as made in the Township of McNab, the timber of which was manufactured on the Bonnechere and in Westmeath.
When they first arrived, there were several lumberers carrying on their operations in the township, viz.
Some demand for produce is also made by the lumberers who pass to and from the upper tracts on this river.
There is but one clearing upon its shores, and that had been made bylumberers many years before; the place abounded with red cedar.
From being lumberers they now become millers, and with pleasure each applies the grating file to his saws.
My family was invited early one morning to go and witness the extraordinary effect which would be produced by the breaking down of the barrier, and we all accompanied the lumberers to the place.
The ice gradually becomes covered with the accumulating mass of timber, and, their task completed, the lumberers wait impatiently for the breaking up of the winter.
At the neck of this basin the lumberers raised a temporary barrier with the refuse of their sawn logs.
After surmounting all obstacles, the lumberers with their stock arrive at the spot which they have had in view, and immediately commence building a camp.
The snows are now giving way, as the rains descend in torrents, and the lumberers collect their utensils, harness their cattle, and prepare for their return.
Our lumberers get nothing in the way of stimulant, and they don't seem to want it.
I was among the lumberers once, and saw the way they square the white pine.
And you think lumberers have been chopping in these woods?
I wonder it escaped the lumbererswhen they were here; they have generally pretty well weeded the forests along this chain of lakes of such fine timber as this spruce.
They are not subject to great exposure, like the lumberers of Maine, in any weather, but inhale the healthfullest breezes, being slightly encumbered with clothing, frequently with the head and feet bare.
With one sail raised we swept slowly up the eastern side of the stream, steering clear of the rocks, while, from the top of a hill which formed the opposite bank, some lumberers were rolling down timber to be rafted down the stream.
The inhabitants of this little wild forest community are not very numerous, as may be supposed, and the only object of interest is a flour-mill, which supplies the lumberers for many miles, both above and below.
The Lumberers are nearly all teetotallers, and I am told they declare that they find their health bettered, their endurance strengthened, their muscles hardened, and their spirits enlivened by the change.
The river had been raised about two feet by the rain, and lumberers were hoping for a flood sufficient to bring down the logs that were left in the spring.
This was the first house above Chesuncook, and the last on the Penobscot waters, and was built here, no doubt, because it was the route of the lumberers in the winter and spring.
She is chiefly used by lumberers for the transportation of themselves, their boats, and supplies, but also by hunters and tourists.
These were such houses as the lumberers of Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness.
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