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Cranberry Lake, itself, is not a good body of water to 

 ramp on. It is too large, being easily moved by the wind, 

 and so made dangerous on many days when a smaller lake 

 would be safe; and too much time and labor are required 

 to visit the various fishing resorts, of which it has no more 

 than many a small lake, certainly but few spring-holes 

 where trout must besought in July. Its shores, lined with 

 dead wood, standing and fallen, and its bays and flooded 

 swamps often impenetrable, are both dangerous to approach 

 and exceedingly disagreeable to the eye. On the other 

 hand, the lake all'onls a large and safe breeding and feed 

 ing ground for trout, and will long be noted, I imagine, for 

 its many and large fish. 



One ought to camp abo\e or below the lake, on the 

 Oswegatehie Kiver, thus having really attractive scenery, 

 easier and safer moving about, and equally as good arid 

 probably much better lishing. 



The river In-low the dam is rapid for half a mile, and the 

 finest place, all things considered, for Spring lishing in the 

 woods. a comfortable home with Dodds, at reasonable 

 rates, not bring Hie lca>t consideration. In IJasin Brook, 

 within a mile of the dam, in a single pool not over twelve 

 or lit' teen feet in diameter, the Mayor and I, while floating 

 quietly, with faces near the water, saw at least half a 

 * bushel of trout, some of them from fifteen to eighteen 

 inches long. At Cook's Spring Hole, about live miles 

 below the dam. there is probably the best fly lishing in all 

 that region. There are. also, several other excellent spring 

 holes in that immediate neighborhood. 



The river above the lake, after two miles of rapids, is 

 navigable for small boats, without a carry, for fifteen or 



