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able point. It opens into Eagle Lake, which is two miles long-, 

 and which, in turn, opens into Utawana Lake, a favorite haunt of 

 the deer. Below this lake is Marian River and then Racquette Lake. 

 From Blue Mountain Lake to Long Lake there is a more direct 

 route with four miles of carry, but even the guides when travelling 

 light, will take the longer and all-water route. The trout in these 

 lakes are very abundant and large. A little north of Blue Moun- 

 tain Lake is a little pond literally filled with brook trout, and they 

 respond most quickly to the fliy. In the fall there is no spot in the 

 Adirondacks where deer and partridges are more plenty. Chauncey 

 Hathorne keeps an excellent house here. The route is via North 

 Creek, the terminus of the Adirondack Railroad, sixty miles from 

 Saratoga; thence stage five miles to J, Eldridge's hotel at North 

 River ; thence stage, good road, fifteen miles to R. B. Jackson's on 

 Cedar River ; thence team ten miles to Blue Mountain Lake. 



The Oswegatchic River and Fishing Grounds. The east, or 

 main branch, of the Oswegatchie River rises in Crooked Lake. 

 From Crooked Lake it runs in a north-easterly direction some six 

 or eight miles, to where it forms the branch from Deer Pond (Col- 

 vin's Lost Lake) country. It is known above this point as the 

 Robinson River. Below the junction, some two miles, it tumbles 

 over a ledge of rocks some twenty feet in height. Here, at the 

 foot of these falls, known as the " High Falls," on the inlet, are 

 found speckled trout of three to four pounds weight. Above the 

 falls are plenty of trout weighing from a quarter to a half pound. 

 Half a mile further down are " The Plains," a tract of country that 

 has been cleared of timber by wind and fire, some three miles long, 

 and varying in width from a quarter to three-quarters of a mile, and 

 nearly surrounded by hills of from three to five hundred feet high. 

 Near the upper part of these plains is a good *' trout hole" when 

 the water is not too high. In the brook are also small trout. All 

 along here, and for some miles further down, the fishing is good, 

 and for a stretch of ten miles the chances for a shot at a deer by 

 day or jack light are very good. On the west side of the river, near 

 the foot of the plains, and distant from one and a half to two miles, 

 are the " Five Ponds," taking their name from their number. These, 

 or a part of them, are good ponds for deer. About this section 

 there is now and then a wolf and panther. At the foot of this still 

 water are some three miles of rapids, on which, about the first of 

 June, is some good fishing. Below this we come to the " Drowned 

 Land," a large swamp overflowed by the draining of Cranberry 

 Lake, where, in September, fishing and hunting are both good. 

 A dozen or more ponds empty into the lake on the south and south- 

 east side, among which are Bossout, Cat Mountain, Cow Horn, 

 Olmstead, Darnneedle, Fish Pole, or Little Grass, as it is sometimes 

 called. Little Gull, Curtis, and other small ones. Nearly all of these 

 are good for trout or deer, and some of ihem for both. 



