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products, but only for his own use, as the 

 difficulties of transportation to market, some 

 seventy miles distant, made it no object. He 

 usually went to Ticonderoga on Lake Cham- 

 plain once a year for his groceries, etc. His 

 post-office was twelve miles below, at the 

 Lower Works, where the mail passed twice 

 a week. There was not a doctor, or lawyer, 

 or preacher within twenty-five miles. In 

 winter, months elapse without their seeing 

 anybody from the outside world. In sum- 

 mer, parties occasionally pass through here 

 on their way to Indian Pass and Mount 

 Marcy. Hundreds of tons of good timothy 

 hay annually rot down upon the cleared 

 land. 



After nightfall we went out and walked 

 up and down the grass-grown streets. It 

 was a curious and melancholy spectacle. 

 The remoteness and surrounding wildness 

 rendered the scene doubly impressive. And 

 the next day and the next, the place was an 

 object of wonder. There were about thirty 

 buildings in all, most of them small frame 

 houses, with a door and two windows opening 

 into a small yard in front and a garden in 

 the rear, such as are usually occupied by the 

 laborers in a country manufacturing district 



