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LETTER VI. 



LONG LAKE. 



Long Lake, July. 

 You have heretofore had a good many letters from 

 Long Lake, descriptive of its scenery, capabilities of 

 its land, the interesting colony on its borders, &c. 

 With regard to the scenery, there can be but one 

 opinion — it is unrivaled. Long Lake is one of the 

 most beautiful sheets of water I ever floated over, 

 and its framework of mountains becomes the glorious 

 picture. I never saw a more beautiful island than 

 " Round Island," as it is called, situated near mid- 

 way of the lake. As you look at it from above or be- 

 low, it appears to stand between two promontories, 

 that, with their green and rounded points, are striv- 

 ing to reach it as they push boldly out into the water; 

 while with its abrupt high banks, from which go up 

 the lofty pine-trees, it looks like a huge green cylin- 

 der, sunk there endwise in the waves. I wish I owned 

 that island. It would be pleasant to be possessor of 

 so much beauty. I said once, through your paper, 

 that this never could be a good farming country, in 

 tfcie common acceptation of that term ; and I was 

 asked if I had seen this, and that, and the other lake. 



