The Adirondacks Again 



the service for a longer period than any other officer 

 of the modern navy. 



Mrs. Jordan's only other brother is Charles S. 

 Knight, Jr., a business man of Chicago. One of 

 several sisters, Bertha, the youngest, lived with us 

 for a time in Bloomington, where she graduated from 

 the University. She afterward married Henry 

 Landes, a fellow student to whom reference has 

 already been made. For many years past she has 

 lived in Seattle, where her husband has long held 

 the professorship of Geology in the institution of 

 which he was for a year and a half acting president. 



University obligations having made it imperative 

 to return to Indiana by the middle of August, I 

 planned a sort of deferred wedding trip the following 

 summer. In June, 1888, therefore, we started for 

 the Adirondack Mountains, through which we drove 

 for several days, making the circuit of Keene Valley, 

 Lake Placid, and the Saranacs, thence over to 

 Willoughby Lake in Vermont. This last, the deepest, wn- 

 clearest, and most charming of all the glacial tarns of lou s 

 the Green Mountains, is overshadowed by a huge 

 cliff about which grow many rare Northern flowers. 

 In that delightful region we combined work with 

 pleasure by reading the proofs and arranging the 

 index of a new and completely reset edition of the 

 " Manual of Vertebrates." Afterward, passing north- 

 ward to Granby, we went down the St. Lawrence 

 to Quebec, where we delighted in the atmosphere of 

 the old French town. Hiring a calecbe one day, I 

 astonished the owner by dismissing him, mounting 

 myself on the box and driving to Montmorency 

 Falls, whilst my young wife sat behind in state, 



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