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^our head at night, which is no small matter. One is 

 often disqualified for enjoying the woods after he gets 

 there by the loss of sleep and of proper food taken at 

 Beasonable times. This point attended to, and one is 

 in the humor for any enterprise. 



About half a mile northeast of the village is Lake 

 Henderson, a very irregular and picturesque sheet ol 

 water, surrounded by dark evergreen forests, and 

 abutted by two or three bold promontories with mot- 

 tled white and gray rocks. Its greatest extent in 

 any one direction is perhaps less than a mile. Its 

 waters are perfectly clear and abound in lake trout. 

 A considerable stream flows into it which comes 

 down from Indian Pass. 



A. mile south of the village is Lake Sandford. 

 This is a more open and exposed sheet of water and 

 much larger. From some parts of it Mount Marcy 

 and the gorge of the Indian Pass are seen to excel- 

 lent advantaoje. The Indian Pass shows as a huge 

 cleft in the mountain, the gray walls rising on one 

 side perpendicularly for many hundred feet. This 

 lake abounds in white and yellow perch and in pick- 

 erel ; of the latter single specimens are often caught 

 which weigh fifteen pounds. There were a few wild 

 ducks on both lakes. A brood of the goosander or 

 *ed merganser, the young not yet able to fly, were 

 die occasion of some spirited rowing. But with two 

 pairs of oars in a trim light skiff, it was impossible to 

 come up with them. Yet we could not resist the 

 temptation to give them a chase every day when w# 



