New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-30
TRJp TO cHA rkAUGAY LAKE.

.a~h.v;,c talked more ~ less for two weeks with
e.nd about taking the above trip for the purpose Of
Ga, c;ng ont hunting. fishing and enjoying ourselves
,e,.rsly we lef New York in expectation of fine sport
,sboot,pe deer and pulling up the sp, ,cklei trout.
We arrived 10 Platt,burgh in 2i hours. where We
t.aved over night. surpug and breakfasting Oh the
very kinds Of game were in pursuit Of, which,
though satisfying appetites in one respect Only
created greater one foi taking the game ourselves
Leaving Plattsburgh by the =. m. train reached
Euepburgh in two and half hours. whence rode
south II miles to Mciherspns, on Chatesugay Lake
where we obtained our twu guides, boats, provisions
&c. and started for shauty, distant ilcs further
sJuth.
This specimen Of backwoods architecture, built Of
logs is abou, IL 10y ~ feet and feet high, with n
gable roof covered with bank, and though water
light now lacks that essential qualification.
This sheet Of water, lying eiGb"-uned as IT docs,
between rugged mountains, III ge with the ever vary
ing hues Of Autumn, aud surrounded ty u vast aud
almost impenetrable wilderness, is for the romantic
nature Of it's scenery hardly 10 BE- surpassed. It's length
is twelve miles, running north, and cmptying into tns
st. Lawrence River and Is divided into Two Smaller
lakes which connected by what is Gale the ~
rows VARYING from fifty tn hundred feet in WIDTH
between whose banks n 'ws clear stream, having a
very perceIdbe current. Tue eal down this stream
about sunset is Of the most beautiful on the lake
The echo of the voice from bank TO bank at certain
places on the NarrOw- II most clear aud distinct, and
al one place OF the upper lake the report Of gun il
heard no less than elryen times.
The hunting and around the lake IL excellent
deer being the principal game, although there are not
a few black ducks pGrtrjger and rabbits to be found
the greatest drawback to the hunting OF which IL,
that the size of the game does not iuy compensate
for the difficulty uf going through the very dense
woods 10 obtain them, the coonry being so wild that
there few or paths except the run"ays oi the
deer.
During our stay Of ten day., shot six deer, three
sf which we sent to our friends at home, one we
smoked ard q remaining taO were consumed ut the
camp Tie hunting of deer il 'he finest sport on the
lake The Of night shooting is about over, the
weather being too coli, heuce "e had to drive our
deer with dogs aud this was port indeed.
Mr.. Mcpherson, host, furnished three me
hounds two Of which, fer Il err good tnirg probaoy
cannot be excelied in the State. About O'Clock III
The morning the gndcs, each with their respective
sportsman, beat and d"es, leave for some suitable
pace OF the shCre tO enter the woods having gaheu
such be proceeds with with bigs dogs to find fresh
track As soon q. the doss strike the scent, thcy I'M
mediaely begin to bark, and start on the uacsi inc
guide then returns the boat to watch when The deer
comes into the lake. AZ the scent grows stronger
then IL is Won begin 10 hear w at the guides call
90 music" and surely it i, music to one who loves the
al ase for each dog, sild with excitement, seems Try
irg to outdo the others showing by bayng his prox
unity 10 the Inflated victim.
TIE deer knowing his own speed, his average time
being about mile III three minutes seldom starts tlli
the dogs are pretty close when he will jump for his
runway and then, all the dogs ia the woods could not
catch but drive him, until the deer 0ecOinlhg
fired Takes TO the water with the intention of eludng
his pursuers by swimming and destroying the
scent.
Now is the exciting time to the hunter, for If the
deer enters the water mile I'll and the lake IL Dut u
mile wide il becomes 10 easy task to overtake, ana
then, with unerring aim, to secure the " meat.
The fishing ON the lake apd in the small streams
running into il is very fne twenty or thirty brook
trout weig Dg from quarter to pound were ire
auently caught within Nh hour, thus giving pleasing
variety 10 our food. We were however too early for
salmon or lake trout by about weeks, when thcy
will bite well at the spoon aud fly while the deer
hunting will be quite as good if not better than
Ne,, Io,k Sent a. 1858 @. H. b.