The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-14
A Curious as Well as a Mysteri
 OuS Island.

to appropriate a good share of your time in survey of Lake Horicon (vulgarly called Lake George) and its uns passed beauty and charms, as well as its impenetrable mys- teries. It is one thing, to take a steamer at the head of the lake as tourists usnally do and in two hours land at Baldwin's dock at the foot of the lake, where Abercrombie and Lord Howe landed with British troops over a century ago; and say you have seen Horizon lake; but quite another thing to take a skiff and explore its rocky shores, and beautiful bays, that one is surprised to find so large on entering them, and which cannot be seen from the decks of the passing steamer. It may be of interest to the many readers of THE SENTINEL to know something of this wonderful body of water, of which its visitors never weary, nor exhaust it's many wonders l propose therefore to give your readers an idea of some of its historic charms through the columns of TIE SENTINEL each week in as short and concise a man. her as possible, adding only this, that 1 shall speak from knowledge which a four years residence on the shores of this lake gave the writer
 ONE TREE ISLAND.
 There are said to be 365 Islands in the lake, or one, for every day in the year, but to make this number, Ca tree has to stand up, and be counted. about midway of the lake, directly in the middle of the south channel, some two miles above Hulett's landing, is a stick of timber, or what looks like large log broken of, and projecting out of the water about three feet, anc is some two and a half feet in diame- ter, and nearly square-this is called "One Tree Island"
 It moves about certain distance each way, if the wind blows hard, or vessel happens to strike it or tie to it. It is securely held in some mys- terious manner at it's lowest end; and the water is over sixty feet, in depth around it. Trials have been made, to detach it from it's moorings, but no has ever fathomed it's mysterious fastenings; nor solved the mystery of how 1t came there, nor when it came. Capt Hulett, who was born at Hull. ett's landing, and always lived there, told the writer that 1t was there be- fore he was born, and he was there over 60 years old when he told me, and said his father told him it was thers when he first came to settle there twenty years before he was born. The lake falls from the high water line in the spring, two and half feet, to low water line in summer, yet this one tree island always keeps just about so much above the water. Of late years it has come to be re garded as a sacrilege for any one to attempt its removal The writer has often tied his boat to 1t while he fshed for bass and perch, and in winter has sat down upon it when passing that wey on the ice. Some day it may reveal its history, but 1t will be when the Sphlnx of the Nile, tells it's story. Various theories exist as to what it is that holds it so securely, but no mortal knows.
 Lake Horizon is thirty-six miles in length in its navigable waters, and the outlet about two miles from there to where it passes over what is known
 
 as the Upper Falls. The lake is two hundred and thirty fee6 above Lake Champlain, into which it discharges its waters, and lies nearly paralell with Champlain, distance of about five or six miles. Horizon Lake has nearly a rock bound shore, and it's numerous islands are rock bound, yet generally 1 covered with a growth of timber and | HoRIcoN.
 Part Two next week.