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merits for its production and sustenance ? On higher 

 ground about a mile distant was a trout pond, the 

 ihores of which were steep and rocky. 



Our next move was a tramp of about twelve miles 

 through the wilderness, most of the way in a drench- 

 ing rain, to a place called the Lower Iron "Works, 

 situated on the road leading in to Long Lake, which 

 is about a day's drive farther on. We found a com 

 fortable hotel here, and were glad enough to avail 

 ourselves of the shelter and warmth which it offered. 

 There was a little settlement and some quite good 

 farms. The place commands a fine view to the 

 north of Indian Pass, INIount Marcy, and the adjacent 

 mountains. On the afternoon of our arrival and also 

 the next morning the view was completely shut off 

 by the fog. But about the middle of the forenoon 

 the wind changed, the fog lifted and revealed to us 

 the grandest mountain scenery we had beheld on our 

 journey. There they sat about fifteen miles distant, 

 a group of them ; Mount Marcy, Mount Mclntyre, 

 and Mount Golden, the real Adirondac monarchs. 

 It was an impressive sight, rendered doubly so by the 

 sudden manner in which it was revealed to us by that 

 scene shifter the Wind. 



I saw blackbirds at this place, and sparrows, and 

 ihe solitary sandpiper, and the Canada woodpecker, 

 And a large number of humming-birds. Indeed I saw 

 more of the latter here than I ever before saw in any 

 3tie locality. Their squeaking and whirring weT9 

 almost incessant 



