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old sporting house, thence a navigable watercourse to Racquette, 

 whence a continuous net-work of lakes and streams renders access- 

 ible the north-western limits of the Adirondacks, This route tra- 

 verses a country full of game, in which, by going a little aside from 

 the more beaten line of travel, the sportsman will find successful 

 hunting and fishing. 



Second— Lovvville and Carthage, each on the Utica and Black 

 River Railroad, are points of entry from the West. Wagon roads 

 from these villages converge at Lake Francis, and thence by land 

 and water there is a route to Beach's Lake, twenty-two miles, and 

 Racquette Lake, nine miles farther. 



Third. — From the North via Potsdam there is a route via Col- 

 ton, McEwen's on the Racquette River, Haw's, the Moosehead still 

 water, and Racquette Lake, to Grave's Lodge, on Big Tupper Lake, 

 whence all parts of the Wilderness are accessible by boat. Excel- 

 lent hunting and fishing are to be had. 



Fourth. — Malone is a starting point for entering the Wilderness 

 from the North. It is reached via the Central Vermont Railroad. 

 The route is by regular stage via Chazy and Chateaugay Lakes, 

 both worthy of the sportsman's attention, and the east branch of 

 the St. Regis River to Meacham Pond, and thence via Osgood's 

 Pond to Paul Smith's, on the lower St. Regis Lake. This is the best 

 starting point for all parts of the interior Wilderness. A good 

 wagon road leads from Malone to Martin's, a well known hotel on 

 the Lower Saranac. 



Fifth. — Plattsburg, on Lake Champlain and on the Delaware 

 and Hudson Canal Company's Railroad, is a point of entr)' from the 

 North-east. The route is via rail to Ausable Station, thence cov- 

 ered coaches to Paul Smith's and Martin's. From Port Kent a 

 stage route runs to Keeseville, thence to Ausable Station, and thence 

 as before. 



Martin's, on the Lower Saranac Lake, the pioneer hotel of the 

 Wilderness, has grown from a small log cabin, to be the largest and 

 most commodious hotel in the woods, complete with every con- 

 venience, and with a table of the best. Many ladies board here, 

 preferring to do so, to going off to camp with their husbands. 

 Board is fourteen dollars per week, two-fifty per day. Martin fur- 

 nishes supplies for the camp, every thing necessary and complete. 

 The guides are all independent, and command three dollars per 

 day and found. They furnish a boat and hound, and carry a 

 rifle. The expense of a guide, and the average expense of cost of 

 living while in camp, will amount to four dollars per day, (three 

 dollars for guide, and fifty cents a piece for self and guide,) 

 so a couple of weeks will cost about fifty-six dollars, while in 

 camp. 



Sixth. — From the East, the heart of the Wilderness may be 

 reached by routes starting from Westport, or Crown Point on Lake 



