CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



RICA— Its Past, Prese 

 A "Woodman's Idea of Expansion 24G 



PAGE 



The Growth of America— Its Past, Present, and Future — 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



Manifest Destiny — Young America on the Move . . . .258 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



The Lower Saranac — The Bald Eagle — Umbrella Island — 

 Ball-face Mountain — Mount Marcy 21 Q 



CHAPTER XXVIU. 



The Story of Old Pete Meigs — The Massacre, and the 

 Retribution that followed 286 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



A Dberlick — The Vermonter and his Licklog — Shooting 

 the wrong Animal 300 



CHAPTER XXX. 



Old Shadrach, and the "Water Rattlesnake — Tucker's No- 

 tion OF Slavery — The End of that Institution at last . 308 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



Moonlight on the "Water — A Tillage wiped out — The Au 

 Sable — Keeseyille — The Gorge — An Ore Pit 324 



