The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-28

scamps who is glad TO get SIC Der week, pick to
pieces the style in which popular house Il kept.
Not VIZ the
the meats are intoerabe and the pastries beneath
contempt CO The pcsr fellow is eiad enough At home
corned beef and cabbage, eggs and bacon with q
genuine relish. But at a fashionable watering
Ing place ldeas-rise ct ten, take breakfast at
eleven, bully the walters, make game o. the or,
scenery and scandsiiSe the unnatural humanity.
AS Tor myself ! should like to be as Argus
eeS as ~ am " the midst
and hear too much or say too little, always pro.
vided you say enough to be companionable. sit
to be- w
Of the universe, or like oocile blubber hsh glad
to be wsshed and gurged over BY the nveterste
tnre. What do they mean by it ? Does she speak In
language that has mood, tense, number and per-
tions and declensionsf Or does she speak In q
language that Is as good as dead, because no
very interesting Individual, admit, but alto
gether original and eccentric-quite as orig
inai and eccentric IN the woods and streams
watering place, II people did but know 1t, Is that
you have chance OF studying here both in hu.
MOSES in the same breath, and pun to pieces wild
flowers ana women at discretion. Here at Lake
thus dual is snS
i've separate and individual islands-somebody
sat up all night once to count them.stretc1ng
all around you, and several hundred men ana
women and children, from ali parts ; Of the the
world, sitting down ct the same table with you
izing longer, lest you should say of me what Lord
Tynemouth said OF Bishop Porteus' fayorite ser
IKE the the En-
1t would have endured forever
IN AND ABOUT LAKE GEORGE.
One Of the FIRST questions the tourist asks him
self when he gets to Lake George is where he
shall go TO, and truth to tell there Is an abundance
OF places to choose from. There is no excuse for
the time breakfast is over in the morning until the
walters In squads, hand round Ice cream and
ten and e. YGn ne
else your imagination while travelling along the
liiies that adorn' Bloody Pond, try pt the
mint juleps and milk punches at Browns halfway
Williams Monument In the Immediate vicinity OF
Lake George there Is not perhaps great deal to
see, you except the view from Prospect Noun
tain, to which we shall presently refer. You might,
indeed, visit the Indian encampment, just beyond
the little churchyard, and purchase the bead and
has to sell. But the Pocahontas of the period Is
not by any means so interesting damsel as she Is
generally supposed to be. Her attire is anything
with the white man has caused her to crop out
into chignon and Dolly Warden, and
rather nude, but extremely virtuous-we have an
epicene creature, who seems to partake OF the
cast-O1 fashion OF female civilization. AS Tor the
f0rts-Fort William Henry and Fort Ge0rge-vist
them and try to manufacture interest out OF them
II you can. have great admiration for ruins las
think minated IN former letter., when the
ruins are respectable. But responsibility is the
mean size large enough TO be appreciabe. Nobody
OF sound mind can respect rum that he can pick
aTd % could am pacs bo
Fort George and Fort William Henry on an
ordinary sized baggage car and take them to
New York. AS a historical discipline, perhaps
they have their advantages. School marms still
like to repair to them IN order to md out whether
right direction, and to determine how much their
pupils rec0llect OF the French and Indian wars.
py the % ak
George relate the experiences of Vandreuil's ex-
petition and detail the massacre connected with
the capture of Fort William Henry. From such
particulars permit me to refrain. We all learned
them when we went TO school, and the guide |
books mot particularly well wrltten) renew Them
for US to the fullest extent Read them, chaste
and beloved reader, thank the gOod MIR. Stoddard
or COMPILING r them Tor you and you can't go lar
But perhaps you wish ~ go down the lake. aud
warn you that there are 3e5 islands, which Is more
than any well regulated lake ought to have. The
worst oil 1t is, TOO, that none OF them are bar
rem or deserted, none of them are inhabited by a
hermit or an Alexander Selkirk and none Of them
are renowned IN tradition as containing a lovers
leap or a suicides grave. No. frankly own that
these 900 ISLANDS are proVokngy agfeeaoe Ior tue
pleasure In. Lake Mahopac only goes ahead OF
them. Once upon time somebody undertook to
name them, but by the time he got through
found that he had duplicated one-haf and so never
gave his Workmanship that publicity which was
perhaps its due Still you will stop AT Tea Island
which is one OF the gems OF the collection, or at
Dlamand, Island which Is another gem. Dome
Island and Recluse Island are also worth mention
ing and at Fourteen Mile Island you Will have room
for astonishment in Shelving Rock Falls. The Hen
and Chickens at the south end OF Fourteen Miles
green as green can be, looking like cluster Of
emeralds, forming one green and clustering
AND and 10 Sop are for e pg es
ton, it will not irk to examine Black Noun
tain, "As You Were island" and Huleth's Landing.
II you extend your researches as lar as Sabbath
Day Point you must be more energetic than one
out OF SIX visitors are who come to Lake george.
1t is the scene OF many a historical event; but,
probably, you are too lazy or too cynical or too in
different Tor historical events and all you care for
is TO be able 20 say that you have been everywhere
and seen everything Very well; in that case
would advise you TO take look at the Indian ket-
ties, which are goodsized depressiOns about as
shore in the vicinity OF sabbath Day Point. Hague
is the broadest part OF Lake George and
Il sn SN excellent ' bass III ashng '' ana has
more an ae ass a place TO
tlon OF mountains or hills that did not possess a
"St. AnthOny's Nose" or something akin to one. or
course we have one here. The guideb0ok, with
pardonable imagination, calls the lace perfect
GENTLY near IN resemblance to be worthy ofremark.
II looks toward the west. is HAPPY in a Roman
speech, may be called bearded. Since every face
must have forehead, there is literal correctness,
in this instance, In speaking of the " brow" or the
mountain. But 1t would be impossible TO mention
every point included in complete round OF visit
without making out dry mechanical category.
Suce II to say that LAX George plenty OF
opportunities to those who are iond OF locomotlon q
But, meanwhile, as there are various things you
may and may not do here, will endeav0r TO en-
tighten the reader as 10 what they are.
You may hire boat Tor fifty cents an hour, or 81
and boat for about double these prices You
may have your choice between the Fort William
Henry Hotel, which Is magnifcently situated, i
commanding a full view or the lake the whole
length OF the front piazza; the Lake House and
the Crosby House, and when one OF these is the
best l leave the discerning reader to find out,
merely saying that II had my way-but no mat
teri You may sail up to the Narrows on board
the Minnehaha, tugging small boat be-
hind for your accommodation should you
wish to 60 on shore, an accommodation
however. for which you are expected to pay extra.
You may JOIN the grand excursion, which Is rather
a big affair." including trip to Lake Champaign,
..dinnern at TcQnderOQa. q stroll among Lie RUNS