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BuaLirGros, VI August @,

the dog star RACES, have sought and found
felief IN Hight, Ia winter when life IL chilled, |
and every green thing has fled from the earth
before the breath Of Storms, men choose TO |
crowd together TO bring their hearts nearer TO
each other, hnd thus TO escape the desOlation
that reigns without. But IN the glorious sum
mer time, when all.embracng, life -awakenng
Nature has spread her mantle of beauty over
all the earth, il 10 no time for man 10 cover into
his closet, To shu, his eyes TO pleasant scenes or
TO stop his ears TO the delightful sounds that |
every where go up like an all-harmonous
hymn, 10 the smiling, listening heavens above |
Ills Soul grows not with a healthful life while |
it thus slirinks from Natures nourshing light
toll and earnest efforts, which are the condition
and the food of life, unreeved wear out the
heart and destroy its best and highest energies
or the thousands who leave your city every
season for the health and quiet Of country resi-.
dence, | am surprised that 30 many should stop
at Saratoga. Uuess one mngles in all the ies-
tivltlcs and fashionable amuscments of that
noted place, it is exceeding dull and tiresome
and If you do take part in them you are plunged
at once into excitement as constant and intense
as that from which you seek relief. For my own
part, after stopping All hour or two for dinner
and to taste the mineral waters, | turned nv
back upon the Spa and soon found myself in one
of the most beautiful and delightful spots in this
western world. For week or two of quiet
| and retired enjoyment know of no better place
| than LAKE GEORGE Its waters, pure IS crystal,
sleep in unstaned beauty beneath the shade of
| the brave, o'erhanging hills scenes of unsur-
passed interest in our country's history crowd
| upon the mind at the sight of its shores, and no
heart can dwell upon its borders or share in the
| manifold enjoyments which it proffers, without
being cleansed of its selfish impurities and en-
| lar,r .
beneath the influences which every where sur.
round it. The upper end of the lake is much
| the more pleasant; the scenery is holder and
more imposing, and the lake itself is WIDER its
islands greener, and its whole aspect far more
delightful than at a lower point. Caldwell,
| which is at the head, as of course you know, is
a little village which derives all its Importance
from the beauty of its situation. A large and
well conducted Hotel receives the wanderer
pleasure. are always at his service, fine
fish of all kinds, sporting beneath the clear
waters court the attention of every sportsman,
and beautiful bays, green slets, and most de.
lightful groves offer their choice pleasures to
every lover of Nature and of Life.
| ] tried my hand one day at cunning. | could
never trace my ancestry SO far back as Nimrod
and judging from the slight family resemblance
| which can be discovered, am inclined to think
that have not the honor to class that celebrated
cockney sportsman among my remote progen.
tors. Ii am one OF his descendants he certainly
has no reason TO be proud of hiss degenerate
son; am morally certain that was never
destined to follow his profession. think that
tenderness of heart must be the besettipg sin,
winch Will ever prevent my becoming an adept
IN the art OF destruction. Whether il be this or
something else, certain 1t is that Couiu never
r persuade myselfto take the life of an innocent
| a1thouuh have trio 7 n
) hundred times. am quite fierce enough at the
outset, and never have the slightest qualm in
aiming the murderous weapon; but when
come to fire-'ay, there's the rub,'-mv heart
misgives me and nine times out OF ten, like the
guilty Macbeth, cannot look upon the deed
s am about TO perpetrate, so shut my eyes and
fire away; OF course great loss of life results
During my stroll about Lake George espled a
, squirrel on the topmost bough Of a decaycd oak
| knew that was "hunting," and felt the full
3 responsibility OF my position; so determined
to shoot him. But, unlike your friend the Iii.
noian,' who writes such capital Prairie Sketches
r bore him no malice; had never distinctly
made the proposition that he should allow me &c
! eat him, and even ii | had done so, and me,
with prompt, uuequivocal refusal, Icould not
: in conscience, blame him, for felt constrained
to believe that, under like circumstances,
should do the same. But resolved to kill him
h SO levcled my rifle, took deliberate aim, look
: ed calmly, though with a trembling fear that
q should do him hurt, upon my victim, and tiret
n away. A limb some three feet from where hi
sat gave sgns OF wo, the squirrel leaped un
harmed and, with shrl, gladstone chrru
that made my heart bound with joy within me
C to another tree, and went trudgng homewar
A with light conscience and lighter stomach
n TO prevent misapprehension may as well re
g mark that it is no lack of skill which prevent
n my doing more execution in my hunting tours
|, but, as remarked before, pure tenderness c
e heart, for you must know that never yet talle
:. to hit whatever aimed at.
u The old Forts at the head OF Lake George
If which were erected during the French War
g. 1855, have nearly been demolished. Fol
William Henry. BY far the most celebrated {
n Them was DESTROYED by Montcalm-one OF tn
greatest Generals and noblest men that ever ST
IS foot upon the Western Continent and nov
lr presents nothing but rude heaps of earth to mar
J. its limits. A portion of the walls OF Fort Georg
, where Gen. Burgoyne kept his military store
j, during portion OF his so)ourn in this section
I, the country, still remain. About three mile
IN South of the Lake, in the midst OF pine grow
its waters dark, sluggish, and half covered VII
4, lilv leaves, is Bloody Pond--once made red VII
1t the blood of those who fell in battle upon its DO
IN "A
~ Lake George, gliding in among its many island
l. and awakening, among the silent hills, ii
echo OF it's wheels. You pass thousand beat
tiful sights and many scenes of historic nteres
Al Ticonderoga runs of the old iortlhcatioI
&c are thickly spread around, and the heart beat
, with quicker and higher feeling as the wore
he and deeds there spoken and acted come acro'
"a the mind. r
h. / soon found myself on boord one of the t;
f. nous Lake Champlain steamer RS, widely know
NJ as the most beautiful, elegant and commodlo,
boats upon the American waters. The brig
10 Sun lent ne " glory to the CLASSY waters, We
dant fields. and thick, rich woods made Il
N shores most entoingy beautiful, and the mis-
D. clad mountains in the distance on either han
* gave an horizon OF wide and dazzling splendc
y In no part of the country have ever seen Il
is scenery on Lake Champlain surpassed, TT
m shores of the Hudson are holder, and, in maj
as places, marked by more sublime and ruggt
u features but here the whole river is one
- inimitable beauty. The Lake, in one place ma
10 row and bounded by rocky shores, soon sprea