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us four at Utica waiting for tlic five o'clocli train on the 

 Black River Rail-Road. 



That road is associated in mau}^ minds with the opening- 

 scenes of the delighf ul vacation months. When the summer 

 days come, and one has a fish-rod in his hands, then "Black 

 River Rail-Road " is a phrase to conjure with. The brain 

 of the hajipy sportsman, at the sovmd of these n^agic words, 

 is filled with pictures of camp and stream and lake; for 

 this road, for many miles, skirts the wilderness, and almost 

 ever}' station is the gateway to Paradise. 



"Trenton!" shouts the hrakeman ; and Ihe passengei- 

 drops his paper, eagerl}' gazes out of the window, vainly 

 striving to gain a single glimpse of the romantic and pictur- 

 esque Trenton Falls. 



At "Prospect" he remembers that here he may leave the 

 train and find his way to Jock's Lake, or West (Auiada 

 Creek, or, still further away, to Piseco and Pleasant Lakes, 

 where, in olden times there has been untold s])ort. 



At "Alder Creek" he is reminded of Woodludl, the 

 Bisby Lakes, and Canachagala. with the famous Canacha- 

 gala "spring-hole " l)eyon(l. 



Then come " Booneville " and "Port Ley den, " both 

 entrances to the Moose River waters, — the Fulton Chain 

 with its eight glittering lakes; the Brown Tract Lilet and 

 the noble Raquette Lake be3^ond, easily accessil)le. 



The traveler reaches " Mart insburgh " and "Lowville; 

 and " No. 4, " the Beaver River Countiy, with the Tupper 

 Lakes beyond, will inevitably come to mind, for these 

 stations are the points of entrance to those localities. 



