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ness, and do your sporting in tlie Bro^vn Tract 

 region, go to Albany and thence to Booneville, from 

 which place you can get transported on horseback 

 to the first of the chain of lakes known as the 

 " Eight Lakes." Here was formerly a hotel, known 

 as " Arnold's." The Arnold family have now left, 

 and I know not if the house is kept open. This 

 entrance is not easy for ladies, nor is the region 

 into which it brings you at all noted for the beauty 

 of its scenery. Still many sportsmen go in this 

 way, and to such a class it is a feasible route. You 

 can also " go in " via Lake George and Minerva to 

 Long Lake, if you choose. The distance is some 

 eighty miles by this route, the roads bad, and 

 the hotel accommodations poor. Long Lake is a 

 good starting-point for a party, as it is situated 

 midway of the forest, the centre of magnificent 

 scenery, and the home of many guides. All it 

 needs to make this route one of the very best is, 

 that the roads should be improved, and a good line 

 of coaches established. But as it now is, it is 

 neither practicable nor entirely safe. 



The best route by which to enter the wilderness 

 is the following. It is easy and quick. The ac- 

 commodations are excellent all the way through. 

 I do not know how I can give a true impression of 

 this route so briefly as by going, in imagination, 

 with the reader, from Boston to the Lower Saranac, 

 where I meet my guide. I leave Boston Monday 



