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lavishly, to that end; but all to no purpose. The wrecks 

 are scattered here and there, monument* of ill-directed 

 energy, and warnings against any future endeavor of Un- 

 kind without the use of such modern appliances as shall 

 absolutely conquer the stern resistance of this region to all 

 attacks upon its treasures. 



In OUT 'journeying, before we reached the den-e forest. 

 we touched upon the edge and *a\\ the de*olate home of 

 one of these latter romances, in the town of Duane. And 

 it will do to be briefly historical, perhaps, since in that 

 consists the principal part of the romance. 



There lived in the city of New York during the l!e\o 

 lution. and long after, .lames Duane, a la\\\er and state- 

 man, useful, influential and famous in his day, and 

 honored by President Washington \\ith an appointment as 

 the tir-t I'nited State- Judge of the District of .\e\\ York. 

 Me performed the rare act. a- he became old. of voluntarily 

 laying olV the robes of otlice. I'pon hi- resignation, he 

 removed to Schcnectady, and there died in February. IIi'7. 

 leaving one son and four daughters. Mis grandson. James 

 Duane, having acquired, by marriage with a daughter of 

 William Constable, a lar^e tract of territory in the then 

 named town of Malone, (from which the town of Duane 

 was afterwards formed.) removed thither from Scln-nect.-idy 

 with his family in 1825, and made his home nearly ten 

 mile- from hi- nearest neighbor, the most remote settler in 

 the forest in all that region. Me and oilier* entered upon 

 the project of iron manufacturing in 1828, built the ncces- 



