Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-13

Friday going to Great Harrington, 85 miles away. The roads to this point were in excellent condition except at Bolton.
 The Saturday run was from Great Harrington to Lake George, several routes to Troy being available. They chose that by way of Afford, State Line, Canaan, N. r., and East Chat ham to Nassau which is on the State road from Pittsf1eld to Albany, thence by this road to East Greenbush and, also on state road. to Troy. The blue-book route from Great Harrington to Hudson thence up the river to Troy is practically all macadam and Either route affords fine views of the Berkshire hills and the upper Catskills.
 From Troy through Mechanicsville to Saratoga Springs via Maltaville and on to Lake George, via Corinth and Luzerne, the roads, all macadam, are splendid and the scenery, along the upper Hudson and later among the foothills of the Adirondacks, pleasant to look upon, while Saratoga Springs, with it's great hotels, parks and springs hour or a day.
 Lake George village, formerly Cald- well, is at the head of the lake and a typical summer resort. The scenery for which the lake is famous is best viewed from the steamers which traverse it's entire length daily, stopping at the many hotel and cottage settlements along the shore.
 Sunday was spent on the Eoricon, with ever-changing and ever charm ing views of lake and mountains un- folding.
 The boat docked at 4:45 and the party sped away thirty-seven miles to Schroon Lake, their Sunday night stop.
 Their Monday morning route was I h lnd nT the Eastern Adirondacks, roads still good and no bad hills, with a magni- ficent panorama of real mountain scenery. From Elizabethtown, the first large town, the macadam route leads west to Keene, thence north to Ausable Forks and east to KeeseviIle, but, the weather being dry, we chose the direct road, unimproved but equal to Connecticut country roads, through Lewis to Keeseville, thereby saving some twenty miles. From Keeseville a few minutes brought them to Au- sable Chasm.
 Leaving the Chasm in a couple of
 miles they got their first view of Lake Champlain and followed the fine shore road to Plattsburg. En route they met
 hiking squads of citizen soldiers from the eneampment all red-faced and perspiring under a broiling sun, and later passed through the encampment itself, acres of brown tents on a san dy pla1n.
 From Plattsburg to Chazy frequent views of Lake Champlain are the fea- ture of most interest.
 At ChaZy the tourists were about 20 miles by road and much less by air line from the Canadian border.
 They turned east to Chazy Landing, whence a prinnitive-appea but very capable ferry transported us across a mile or so of lake to Isle of MOtte. Thence one may moto more than thirty miles through the islands of Champlain diagonally across to Burlington, Yer mont
 The islands are connected by cause ways and bridges even more narrow than the roads but easily crossed with caution. They ended this days run at a charming country inn on South Hero Island. nine miles from Burlington.
 The next morning they proceeded via Burlington. Vereennes, MiddIebury, Brandon and Rutland to Manchester.
 Wednesday morning they traveled down to Bennington, then OF through Powna1 and classic Williamstown to North Adams