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And by connecting rail roads one may. indeed, sweep 

 northward, eastward and southward aivain, pretty much 

 around the entire Adirondack*; and almost every station is 

 "the best place, " if we have faith in the local opinion, at 

 which to enter the wilderness. 



I trust, then, that the ties of that road may never decay, 

 and its rails never wear out, and that it may always pay 

 .ii'ood dividends, for it is. />/>/ <.r>; 'I, /,,, , the highway to the 

 "airs of Hie Sportsman's Paradise. 



The ba.n's and bundles were, at length, all on board our 

 train, our rods and 1:1111.- carefully set up in the coi- 

 ners we appropriated without protest. for a^ain was the 

 fishing rod a passport, and we were hurried away, after a 

 modi-rate fashion, northward. At Marlinsl)iiri;-h, Lewis 

 met 11- and transported us to his hotel at Reach's Bridge 

 We were actually a.uaiii on the way to the woods, and it 

 \\i-with ill concealed impatience that we spent the hour 

 of daylight that remained. A proposition to ^o up a little 

 stream, in the cvcniim, to catch suckers in a net, was half- 

 complacently entertained, but our tinersporlsman's instincts 

 prevailed, and we went to bed instead. 



With the carh morning we were oil' for I'Ynlon's "No. 

 4," sixteen miles distant. Five miles from Fenton's wi- 

 st ruck solid forest, our fair road disappeared, and there, 

 tramping to be done. The .u'lins were brought into 

 requisition, and a pi-von stew for dinner fell to our aim. 

 We arrived at Fenlon's a little before noon. 



No. 1 " is simply the number of the township; but that 

 )!ame abides although " men may conic and men may go," 



