PREFACE by F.L. Pattee (1893) This little volume is not a guide-book; it is rather a study of nature, from the standpoint of one of her loveliest retreats. No nook in New England, outside of the northern wilds, is nearer to nature's heart, than is Pasquaney. It is almost as nature left it; it has lost none of its primal sweetness, and yet it is not a weary journey away into the shaggy, uncomfortable wilderness. It offers to its lovers a fresh, ideal retreat, where they may spend the summer months amid the rarest sylvan beauties, and where they may, at the same time, be within easy distance from home, surrounded by all the comforts, and even luxuries, of life. The author has not aimed to make the book exhaustive, to make it a handbook merely. If the reader wishes information, simply, he can easily procure a guide-book. It is rather a disjointed set of musings, gathered in the long, dream-compelling dog-days, when the lazy ripples were lapsing on the beaches and a haze huusr over mountain and meadow. It is a summer book, light and dreamy, with no other aim than to make its reader a lover of the scenes which it describes. The author has taken the liberty to depart from the old nomenclature in several instances. He has used, throughout, Pasquaney, for the more orthodox Newfound. He is, of course, aware that such a course is perilous, and yet, no one can be offended, and few be misled. Cliff Isle has been used instead of the disgusting Hog Island, and the long tongue of land extending; from Crescent Beach toward Belle Isle has been christened Breezy Point. The nine square, full-page illustrations are from photographs taken by W. W. Nicholas of Bristol. The other bits of Pasquaney scenery were photographed by Miss Elizabeth Wellington, to whom the book and the author owe much. Any one wishing a complete guide to the region about Pasquaney can do no better than to procure a copy of Musgrove's "Guide to Bristol and Pasquaney Lake." This is a handbook for the mountain climber and the pleasure seeker generally, containing all the information one can ask for, including a summary of all the leading features of the region, with tables of distances, routes and boarding houses, and full descriptions of the views from the highest mountains in the vicinity of the lake. --F.L.P (All profits from this book go to a program for "at-risk" boys in N.H.-k.b.)"