TIAQUETTE LAKE. 189 



ing- all its renown. We saw before lis a body of water 

 twelve miles in length, with irregular points of land pro- 

 jecting from either side and running far out into' it, making 

 a most remarkable configuration of shores. It contains 

 eighteen islands, most of them bold and rocky, and some 

 of them exceedingly beautiful. The lake has, from 'its 

 .size, an open look and a semi-civilized air unlike all tlie 

 smaller lakes, and very striking to one emerging from dense 

 forests. In sweeping around a point, one almost expects 

 to come upon some quiet town or farm-house on the ]my. 

 Take it all in all, it is as magnificent and beautiful a sheet 

 of water as one maj' (wcm- hope to see in the wilderness. I 

 must add, however, that upon tlie large lakes the winds 

 sometimes sweep witli terrilic I'orce and there is danger of 

 wreck in the small l)oalsin comnion use; and that the fish- 

 ing pools tire so far apart that one often wishes, before 

 the long row is over, that the lake were smaller. I 

 confess a superior liking for the smaller lakes. They are 

 often as beautiful, although not as magnificent, as even 

 Raquette in all its marvel of shores and islands and pel- 

 lucid water. 



We landed at Constable Point, where tliere is an excel- 

 lent spring, but the trees have been cut otf, and the want 

 of shade makes it undesirable for a warm weather camping- 

 ground; and we went on, across the lake, past Osprey 

 (Murray) Island to the foot of the hill at " Wood's Place," 

 long since deserted, not far north from East Inlet, or 

 Marion River. Here we set up our tabernacle on a grassy 

 spot well shaded by several large trees, near the shore, with 



