The object of this book is to bring to the knowledge of summer visitors the natural beauties and points of interest in this region, and also to compile a few facts and data which may be useful and of interest to the residents of this vicinity and to those who have never visited its shores. This lake and its surroundings form one of the most beautiful spots in picturesque New Hampshire. This is conceded by every one who looks for the first time on its charms, and this charm grows the longer one lingers within its enchantments. It is one of the few spots where lake and mountain scenes mingle. Its many beauties deserve to be better known. --R. W. Musgrove 1910 18 day we travelled 14 milds and that day we crost two great streams that runs into Meremock one of them comes out of a great pond which some indens say it is 3 days journey round it. The land is very full of great hills and mountains and very rocky. Abundance of spruce and hemlock and far and some brch and mapols and we Campt. - --Extract from Capt. White's Journal, 1725