Log-landing.--Laborious Exposure.--Damming Streams.--Exciting Scenes. --Log-riding.--Fun.--Breaking a Dry-landing.--A sudden Death.-- Thrilling Scenes on the "Nesourdnehunk."--Lake-driving.--Steam Tow-boat.--Remarks on Lake Navigation.--Driving the main River.-- Union of Crews.--Substantial Jokes.--Log Marks.--Dangers of River-driving.--Sad Feelings over the Grave of a River-driver.-- Singular Substitute for a Coffin.--Burial of a River-driver.--A Log Jam.--Great Excitement.--A Boat swamped.--A Man drowned.-- Narrow Escape.--Mode of Living on the River.--Wangun.--Antidote for Asthma.--The Wangun swamped.--An awful Struggle.--The miraculous Escape.--Driving among the Islands.--Amusing Exertions at identifying. --Consummation of Driving.--The Claims of lumbering Business for greater Prominence.--The Boom. The business of _river-driving_ is not so agreeable as other departments of labor in the lumbering operations, though equally important, and also, in many respects, intensely interesting. The hands left at the camps at the time the team breaks up, to make the necessary instruments for _river-driving_, are soon joined with the addition of such forces as are requisite for an expeditious drive. As in most labor performed there is a directing and responsible head, so is it in river-driving; here, too, we have our "boss." As early as April, and sometimes the last of March, the high ascending sun begins to melt the snow on the south of mountain and hill sides, flowing intervales and lowlands, forming considerable rivers, where at other seasons of the year the insignificant little brook wound its stealthy course among the alders, hardly of a capacity to float the staff of a traveler; but, at the period referred to, by a little previous labor in cutting away the bushes and removing some of the stones in its channel, it is made capable of floating large logs, with the occasional assistance of a dam to flow shoal places.