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An Adirondack logging camp Frontispiece. 



Plate I. Pit-sawing 12 



II. Fig. 1. — An old-fashioned mill, showing guide blocks. Fig. 2. — Mill 

 in Ulster County, .showing saw-gate. Oldest mill in the State, 



built in 1803 12 



III. An old overshot water-wheel 12 



IV. Logs left in the Hudson River at low water 18 



V. Board rafts on the upper Allegheny, tied up for the night in an eddy. 20 



VI. Fig. 1. — Logs and ice, the first drive, West Canada Creek. Fig. 2. — 



Log-driving on the Ausahle River 24 



VII. Fig. 1. — Modern band-saw, Tupper Lake, X. Y. Fig. 2. — Circular 



saw, Tupper Lake, N. Y 32 



VIII. Fig. 1. — Modern gang-saw, Tupper Lake, N. Y. Fig. 2. — Jack-lad- 

 der, with endless chain 32 



IX. The dining room, Adirondack, log-camp 34 



X. The men's r< 10m, Adirondack log-camp 34 



XI. Fig. 1. — Cutting spruce logs, Hamilton County. Fig. 2. — Measuring 



and marking logs on the skids 36 



XII. Skidding logs in the Adirondack forests in winter 36 



XIII. A skidway in the North woods 36 



XIV. Fig. 1. — Skidding logs in summer. Fig. 2.— A big load on the way 



to the rolling-bank 36 



XV. River drivers, sleeping tents, and portable cook-shanty 38 



XVI. Fig. 1. — Raquette pond and piling ground. Fig. 2. — The refuse- 



1 iiirner 33 



XVII. Fig. 1.— Beginning of water-slide: The rolling-bank. Fig. 2. — The 



slide built along slanting rock 40 



XVIII. Fig. 1.— Asleep at his post: Waiting for a jam. Fig. 2. — A dash... 40 

 XIX. Fig. 1. — A plunge. Fnd of water-slide, Ausable River. Fig. 2.— 



Four-foot pulpwood logs. At rest at last 40 



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