Thoreau writes in his journal:
Dined with Lowell . . . From L. I learned that the untouched white pine timber which comes down the Penobscot waters is to be found at the head of the East Branch and the head waters of the Allegash, about Eagle Lake and Chamberlain, etc., and Webster Stream . . .
In “Chesuncook,” Thoreau writes:
One connected with lumbering operations at Bangor told me that the largest pine belonging to his firm, cut the previous winter, “sealed” in the woods four thousand five hundred feet, and was worth ninety dollars in the log at the Bangor boom in Oldtown. They cut a road three rind a half miles long for this tree alone. He thought that the principal locality for the white pine that came down the Penobscot now was at the head of the East Branch and the Allegash, about Webster Stream and Eagle and Chamberlain lakes. Much timber has been stolen from the public lands . . .
