By six o’clock, having mounted our packs and a good blanketful of trout, ready dressed, and hung up such baggage and provision as we wished to leave behind upon the tops of saplings, to be out of the reach of bears, we started for the summit of the mountain, distant, as Uncle George said the boatmen called it, about four miles, but as I judged, and as it proved, nearer fourteen . . .(The Maine Woods, 61-69)
