The untouched white pine timber which comes down the Penobscot.

September 25. 

Sunday.

Dined with Lowell.

Said the largest pine Goddard's men cut last winter scaled in the woods forty-five hundred feet board measure, and was worth ninety dollars at the Bangor boom, Oldtown.

They cut a road three miles and a half for this alone. They do not make much of a path, however.

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.

But Goddard had bought the stumpage in eight townships in New Brunswick. They are also buying up townships across the Canada line.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 25, 1853

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, See The Maine Woods, July 29, 1857 ("I passed one white pine log, which had lodged, in the forest near the edge of the stream, which was quite five feet in diameter at the butt") See also November 18, 1852 ("Measured a stick of round timber, probably white pine, on the cars this afternoon, -- ninety-five feet long, nine and ten-twelfths in circumference at butt, and six and two-twelfths in circumference at small end, quite straight. From Vermont."); July 8, 1857 ("Counted the rings of a white pine stump, sawed off last winter at Laurel Glen. It was three and a half feet diameter and has one hundred and twenty-six rings")