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I saw blackbirds at this place, and spar- 

 rows, and the solitary sandpiper, and the 

 Canada woodpecker, and a large number of 

 humming-birds. Indeed, I saw more of the 

 latter here than I ever before saw in any one 

 locality. Their squeaking and whirring were 

 almost incessant. 



The Adirondac Iron Works belong to the 

 past. Over thirty years ago, a company in 

 Jersey City purchased some sixty thousand 

 acres of land lying along the Adirondac 

 River and abounding in magnetic iron ore. 

 The land was cleared, roads, dams, and 

 forges were constructed, and the work of 

 manufacturing iron begun. 



At this point, a dam was built across the 

 Hudson, the waters of which flowed back 

 into Lake Sandford, about five miles above. 

 The lake itself being some six miles long, 

 tolerable navigation was thus established for 

 a distance of eleven miles, to the Upper 

 Works, which seem to have been the only 

 works in operation. At the Lower Works, 

 besides the remains of the dam, the only 

 vestige I saw was a long, low mound, over- 

 grown with grass and weeds, that suggested 

 a rude earth-work. We were told that it 

 was once a pile of wood containing hundreds 



