Thoreau writes in his journal:
Saw Ktaadn from a hill about two miles northwest of Bangor on the road to Pushtaw. It is about eighty miles from Bangor. This was the nearest point from which we made out to see it. In the afternoon, walked up the Kenduskieg . . .
In “Chesuncook,” Thoreau writes:
I got my first clear view of Ktaadn, on this excursion, from a hill about two miles northwest of Bangor, whither I went for this purpose. After this I was ready to return to Massachusetts . . .
