New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-21

a scientific interest Ii is also great country 10
hops Possibly DR.. Holmes never noticed the con-
nection between girls and hops, and he is welcome
to the suggestion But by this time the boat Is get
ting some distance on its journey. talk with the
vouno piot Will Little soon shows that he Is
Cooper enthusiast, too and the tie BINDS at once.
LITTLE reread all the books last winter, andls full OF
local novledge TO the right. the eastern shore,
Is Mount VISION celebrated in the pioneers"
Ieatberstocking Cave is there. where the old man
entrcnched himself against the law. which pariook
roo much of settlement WAYS for him TO understand
H. This is not much of cave but rather hollow
in the mountain. Bat novelist must surely have
license TO scoop out his little If he finds that
il won't accommodate his characters in good style.
The entire actor OF "Derrslayer" passes either
upon the lake OF its immediate shores, and this
makes it easy to follow it throughout from the deck
of the little steamer. Two-Mie Point as it is pro-
sacallv called two miles north of Coopcrstown. on
the western shore of the lake, is the point where
Deerslayer and the Big >erpeut landed to rescue
Wah-ta.Wah from The HurOns mile further IS
Three.A Mile Point where Dterslayer first killed an
Indian and the dying savage in admiration, hes
slowed upon him the name of Hawkeve. This little
promontory Is now a site for picnics, with ample
PREPARATION of benches and tables and kitchen. Be-
yond Five Mile Point is IIutters Point, so called
after Floating Tom, one of the few names taken
from the books. Here Deerslayer first saw the 'Gm-
merglass" North of here most of the exciting scenes
of the book are laid Out ~ the centre
of the lake Is a white barrel>bnOy. This
marks the spot where "Mu-krat Castle " stood-the
locality being so carefully described by the novelist
as to leave no doubt. There is sh0al there. where
the block-hou was built piles, and the device
was such a good one for isolation and safety tnat
it is easy to believe such house once stood there.
But Cooper, it is SAID. declared It was merely
a fancy of his own. The lake elsewhere OF great
depth. On projection called Whites Point, not
far north of Iutter's Point, was the Huron camp,
from which DesrSllyer was released unl Ter
his mere pledge TO return. and TO which he
did return, with the sure prospect of torture and
death before him. hill rises frOJa the point aud
just behind 1t Is the glen through which the Indians
wildly ran in pursuit of Dsers aver. who had
broken away from the torture. 1t is easy to fix
about the spot he reached the canoe, only 10
lind that its paddles gone and the shingly
beach Is there which the faint braeZ' drifted it
again. putting HIM back IN the hands of the
Hurons. To any who has followed all this
with bated breath. il will seem strange to come
here and find it all soreal
This shore of the lake, the western. has been
cleared in many places, but the eastern shore IS
srlll closely wooded almost everywhere. As the
party disemblrk from the little st amer at the
last landing the is setting. The lake lies smooth
before us across to the dark green hills on the other
shore its surface unbroken BY sign # life. ~
a slender cauOr-shapad boat shows itself ar away,
It is easy to imagine that we are looking AZ the
scene as COoper's hero saw A. b. d. l.