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have becn gaining in popularity IN ne ne
Oswegatchie River have also been largely
taken up by lodges and camps and have
! become favorite resorts OF New ioreers
on the strength of the fame OF their ilve. ;.
pound trout. The trout are stable s'iii' II
! they are not five-pounders.
! Six months or 80 ago the Rome, water,
| town and Ogdensbrrg railroad completed
a new line to this point, replacing the old
stage line and leading past Lake BONE
parte. where Jerome Bonaparte, nae u paa a,,s
| Mountain. starting point OF all geodetic
! surveys in the Adirondack region.
f, On Silver Lake is the camp OF Presldent
! Alexander G. Orr of the Rapid Transit
J Commission, and there Is one OF me most
! long stretch of macadamized roads Inc
woodsnen go many miles out OF their way
| only to look at these roads.
! About. the Bog River and the chain OF
lakes connecting with IT, are the camps
J They are in the line OF the largest continu-
ous canoe trip in the woods, leading through
Raquette Lake and the Raquette River
all the way to the st. Lawrence.
In a different style and ith new beauties
Lake Champlain and Lake George on it's
outer edge and the magnificent keene
Valley. Lake Placid and the Cascade Lakes
in it's southern limits, In the famous
Keene Valley you have the majesty OF the
Adirondacks The valley extends for miles
Keene's Heights it is about 800 feet above
sea level Charming lakes with titanic
boulders between them. There are drives
to the Au Sable lakes and beside the Au
Mount Marcy, the Giant, Noon Mark and
the loftiest peaks in the Adirondacks look
down.
Lake Placid is different again from he
lakes farther in the wilderness. This lake
and Mirror Lake, equally famous for
strip Of land only a few yards wide; Around
the two are fine hotels filed all summer
long with happy, light hearted. crowds.
The highest range In the Adirondacks
bounds the southern horizon. and In the
nort beast Whteface Mountain sweeps down
to the waters edge Only two miles away
is the big rock beneath which John Browns
body lies "mouldering in the grave.
From. within few miles OF the lake,
and through the mountains to Lake Cham
plain runs he An Sable River, ma king when
it nears Champlain the fssure known as
Au Sable chasm in the mountain walls,
the prize natural wonder Of the Adiron-
dacks
Lake Champlain and Lake George, below
it, closing in the Adirondack country on
interest. They are 80 big that each is a
summer resort country in itself.
Lake Champlain's deep waters supply
the most celebrated game fishing in the
northeast and the forest clad heights which
line its shore and the emerald islands within
ii abound in game from partridge to deer
But it's beauty and historic associations
are it, chief attractions. and every year they
prove more potent than the last.
On its shores stand he most impressive
and interesting ruins in the whole OF the
United States old Fort Ticonderoga. Fort
St. Frederick and Fort Montgomery. Held
in succession by three nations the lake saw
the most exciting scenes in the Revou-
tionary War, and in the long struggle before
that. ..
Lake George the dneeh h;.,d Of AmeriGan hsi9.
ground Of Colonial days, has become even
greater favorite with New Workers. than
has the majestic Champlain. In Colonial
days was the gateway between the North
and South and the scene of innumerablc
encounters between the French and Eng
lish and the Indians on both sides. Feni-
more Cooper mas pictured it in those days,
1t saw the fall of Fort 1iconderoga, where
the nations fate was decided, and the
bloody massacre following, the evacuation
the Green Mountain Boys fought around it
in the Revolution, and on clear days the ribs
and keels of the charred hulks of the bateauX
burned by Gen. Vaudreiul in the attack on
Fort William Henry in the winter Of 1857 may
still be seen on the sandy Bottom Of the
lake.
These, with the ruins Of the old fort and
n score of historic mepentos of those stormy
times. are a never failing source of interest
TO visitors. There is Rogers's Slide, where
the trapper escaped the Indians, and a
hundred islands, each with story of Indian
fighting attached to it. Then, too. there
are other more modern associations
for instance lots of visitors want to see
Hugh McLaugh!in's cottage and the dock
from which lie has fshed for bullheads
thess thirty years and more.
There is no more beautiful spot than the
lake itself with the islands which seem to
float on its CLASSY, blue surface; its soothing
atmosphere, fairy hooks, sheltered coves
and sweeping mountain slopes. A dozen
fine hotels now stand along its shores and
steamboats, ply in its waters. but 1t is still
as unspoiled as when 1t saw the white of
Montcalm's tents.
The Adirondack region, with these two
great sheets of water on its border has
a stronger hold on New Workers. year by
year Always cool, the high altitude
keeping the temperature below 90 degrees on
the hottest days and little more than 90
on the warInest nights, the pure air brings
health and strength to thousands. 1t is
never dull, for even to those who are no
sportsmen there is the golf and tennis
which astute caterers to popular taste have
provided.
Five thousand square miles of pleasure
land half the East flOCks there gladly