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fierce Highlanders and the dauntless regiments of 

 Ensfland breasted in vain the storm of lead and 

 fhe, and soon reached the shore where Abercrom- 

 bie landed and Lord Howe fell. First of white 

 men, Jogues and his companions gazed on the 

 romantic lake that bears the name, not of its gentle 

 discoverer, but of the dull Hanoverian king. Like 

 a fair Naiad of the wilderness, it slumbered be- 

 tween the guardian mountains that breathe from 

 crag and forest the stern poetry of war. But all 

 then was solitude ; and the clang of trumpets, the 

 roar of cannon, and the deadly crack of the rifle 

 had never as yet awakened their angry echoes.^ 



Again the canoes were launched, and the wild 

 flotiUa glided on its way, — now in the shadow of 

 the heights, now on the broad expanse, now among 

 the devious channels of the narrows, beset with 

 woody islets, where the hot air was redolent of the 

 pine, the spruce, and the cedar, — till they neared 

 that tragic shore, where, in the following century, 

 New-England rustics baflled the soldiers of Dies- 

 kau, where Montcalm planted his batteries, where 

 the red cross waved so long amid the smoke, and 



1 Lake George, according to Jogues., was called by the Mohawks 

 " Andiatarocte," or Place where the Lake closes. " Andiataraque " is found 

 on a map of Sanson. Spofford, Gazetteer of New York, article "Lake 

 George," says that it was called " Canideri-oit," or Tail of the Lake, 

 Father Martin, in his notes on Bressani, prefixes to this name that of 

 "Horicon," but gives no original authority. 



I have seen an old Latin map on which the name "Horiconi" is set 

 down as belonging to a neighboring tribe. This seems to be only a mis^ 

 print for " Horicoui," that is, " Irocoui," or " Iroquois." In an old Enghsh 

 map, prefixed to the rare tract, A Treatise of New England, the " Lake of 

 Hierocoyes " is laid down. The name " Horic(3n," as used by Cooper in 

 his Last of the Mohicans, seems to have no sufficient historical foundation. 

 In 1646. the lake, as we shall see, was named "Lac St. Sacrement." 



