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and by their kindness we took passage up the lake with 

 them, six or seven miles, and were landed near our already 

 built camp on East Bay. We found three tents erected 

 and fitted up as our bed rooms, a bark store-house for our \wj;- 

 gage and supplies, and an open, bark-roofed dining room 

 furnished with a long table of boards. Two camp stoves 

 outside were dimly smoking and prognosticating the com- 

 bined dinner and supper for which we mightily yearned. 



Finally, our hunger appeased, we were in mood to con- 

 sider our suiToundings, while, in a Sunday-like way. we 

 lounged about the tents or strolled by a winding path 

 leisurely down to the w^ater's edge. Our camp Avas new 

 and clean, — no mean consideration, — in the dense woods, 

 about tenor twelve rods from the water up an easy ascent, 

 and from which, after the intervening underbrush and 

 lower limbs of the trees had been cut away, we looked out 

 upon East Bay and the lake beyond and two or three 

 small islands. A spring of pure, cold Avater bubbled up be- 

 tween the rocks by the path from wliich, arriving at camp 

 or departing, it was a lu.xury to drink whether thirsty or 

 not; while a little way oil" was another si>viiig. deep and 

 abundant for all the wants of our forest household. 



The Lake is about nine miles long, varying from one to 

 perhaps four or five miles in width, and in shape much like 

 a huge, ragged stomach, through which the waters of the 

 beautiful Oswegatchie River pass from the south and on 

 their devious northerly way to the 8t. Lawrence. 



The dam at its foot was built and is maintained to gather 

 water with which to swell the river below^ at certain 



