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1to fantasies shapes which pas 20 shane Al
ether attempts ~ dame nature Al ene
tine, according ~ NsH berry, great aciers
stood Ia the oAsi1s now occ1plsd - The
Great Lakes Ols q these sld dc~n
through the Mohawk valley, cat ~ way
through me present chaEarl u tas hutso1
= the sea aad left as is deposit and moau-
meat TIE present Long Island Is p4ln Ia
those pre- historlc days became the o4tlet 4
the Great LAKE region. Thea another ga
eier followed, closed up tle entrance and
swept 04t me bed Of the - l.4wrenoe aver.
The glaciers have rla almost entirely over
THIS coaunesL There are few peaas Of
tae Roxy Mogntala range bal have had
oae on top VI LEem. Tue glaciers ga Tie
Gr4nd Teton Mountains, Wyoming. are the
only ones left within the Uoaed States Bat
these Northern Adirondack T0cks escaped
TIE glaciers II part except al their bases
Tax about age Ilms - ouly local term
after ALL T1ese Adirondack Tocks were
the hFst ever manufactured on THIS gooe.
Here are the o.ue-gray hyperstleae and
cont0rted gueiss ROCKS, the very first
creation known a. nan, 80 Ola that we eau
only speak u their origin in cycles OF past
time. Here tten - tae very cradle u Tie
earth waere 10 WAS rocked ia Tie infancy
OF caa0s. Oae can only look ia awe Ou these
powders that are affected oy neither
moisture. air or atmosphere Conditions,
that exhlo., the same biz bare white walls
that stood there ana said good bye 70 The
moon three hundred million years ago when
Il was broken OF The earth and hurled into
space.
tits 4 zhty curious thing, the manner
In which the soil is tucked IN amOug these
rocks 50 rich IN some places that vegetation
grows iuxurousy UPON 1t and - barren IN
others that man has been driven out IN
despair. unable 20 make il support him.
The rich soil. after all, is only as barren
F neighbOr, washed down Ov rains and
mountain streams and enriched by decsyed
vegetable matter In back OF Hermen
F met an old farmer who said:
Talk ABOUT hanging gardens, strange.
they amt no comparison % my farm II
; Jest spreads in, among. around ana about
the bald headest old rocks what ever split
a cloud in two. The SOL is so thin ia places,
neighbor, that the roots OF the grass has 10
bore holes in the cussed ROCKS 10 hang on 10
when the tarnal wind blows. Never seed
the wind blow yup ere. did yet Wen, right
thar its >, 100 feet above the St Lawrence
river. " hen the wind blows IL isn't one Of
them common Western cyclones. nothing
SO easy Is that, but regular snifter what
would blow the whole AdirOndacks into the
river II them rocks wasn't stuck clear
through 20 China anu clinched on the under
side"
Greeks in this region are numerous and
they have 4 convenient way OF spreading
out over the terraces into little ponds and
lakes. and then dashing away down hill at
brcakneck speed, making a thousand SOM
ersaults minute. Here and there arc
deep holes some OF which seem bOtiomlcss,
in which bullheads and ecis grow 10 cnor-
nous size. while IN ponds the mountain
frogs are the most delicious IN the world.
found the fishing here eudlessly anus.
ing When | nrSt came the guide in refer
ence to the big eels and builheads said:
I've tried nv luck catcaia' pdtriarchs
ever since was boy, but never could get
the whOppers on land. They take hold Of
the hook, come up 10 the surface. kinder
laugh at yer. drop the bait and walk away
laughed and replied that l was accus-
toned 10 feed on patriarchs and would
show him how 20 ''yank EN-" We went
down 10 a deep pond at dusk and began
operations by pulling out my pistol and kill
iug the muskrats IN the vicinity. After
catching small tsh for time became dis
gusted. Then took a number of worms
and made them into a ban 80 big that only
the large bullhcsds could take II in their
mouths. The minute the worms touched
bottom a foGr-pound oullhead took hold and