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Entered as Second-Class Matter June 12. 1909. at Sound Beach Post Office, under .Act of M arch 3. 1897. 



Vol 



VIII 



NOVEMBER 



Number 6 



A Lake of Possibilities and Difficulties. 



By EDWARD F. BIGELOW, ArcAdiA: Sound Beach, Connecticut. 



MR. Ernest Thompson Seton for the 

 past three years at his new home 

 that he calls "The Fincherie" has 

 been engaged for about three months each 

 year in developing- or transforming" a pes- 

 tilential marsh into a picturesque lake. 

 This famous naturalist quite evidently 

 likes to do that kind of a thing, because 

 on his former estate — "Wyndygoul" — he 

 had an extremely interesting lake that 

 was almost wholly his development, na- 

 ture provided onl.\ the water and a very 

 nice possibilit}- so that the attempt met 

 with a great many difficulties in order 

 to get the water back enough to flow over 

 a large stretch of territory and in giving 

 the whole thing a really natural appear- 

 ance. One would never think of calling 

 it a pond, because it really was a lake 

 to all intents and purposes. 



Here at his recently acquired property 

 there are greater possibilities and greater 

 difficulties in producing the desired effect 

 but on the whole, the plan seems to give 

 promise of far greater results than did 

 his former lake. The road by the side of 

 the lake has every picturesque advantage 

 and the view from the south looking up 

 the lake is beautiful in the extreme. ^Ir. 

 Seton says, "I am a little shy about giving 

 information concerning the lake plan 



just now because so much of it is prob- 

 lematic. I never know what the difificul- 



MR. SKTOX 



ADMIRES THK STUMP 

 M.VCHIXE. 



PULLIXG 



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