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tlie Adirondack Wilderness in search of liealtli 

 and sport. Tlie accounts whicli gave rise to the 

 criticisms are no doubt exaggerated, but tliey 

 all agree that the disappointment is universal. 

 We are of course not surprised, knowing how 

 limited the accommodation is in the Adirondack 

 region, and how all chance of comfort and en- 

 joyment must have departed with the pressure 

 of numbers. Those who have been in the w il- 

 derness and are i>osted, can again go there and 

 meet with reasonable success in fishing and 

 hunting, but those who go for the first time, 

 without the company of an experienced friend, 

 will meet with poor success, and make up their 

 minds that the Adirondack region is a humbug, 

 while such is really not the case, for there is 

 plenty of sport to be had, but reUahle inform- 

 ation must first be obtained. 



If the Adirondacks have been overrun with 

 thousands of tourists this summer, as the papers 

 say they have, it is natural that they should 

 feel hard toward IMr. Murray, yet they are 

 themselves to l)lame in a great measure, for 

 swallowing the book entire and then bolting for 

 the woods, Avithout previously consulting some 

 friend who w as able to post them correctly. 



