42 ADVENTURES IN THE WILDERNESS. 



morning, we will say, at eight o'clock, on the Bos- 

 ton and Albany Kailroad. At East Albany we con- 

 nect with the Troy train ; at Troy, with the Sara- 

 toga train, which lands you at the steamboat dock 

 at Whitehall, Lake Champlain, at nine o'clock, 

 p. M. Going on board you sit down to a dinner, 

 abundant in quantity and well served ; after which 

 you retire to your state-room, or, if so inclined, roll 

 an arm-chair to the hurricane deck, and enjoy that 

 rarest of treats, a steamboat excursion on an inland 

 lake by moonlight. At 4.30 A. M. you are oppo- 

 site Burlington, Vt., and by the time you are 

 dressed the boat glides alongside of the dock at 

 Port Kent, on the 'New York side of the lake. 

 You enter a coach which stands in waiting, and, 

 after a ride of six miles in the cool morning air, 

 you alight at the Ausable House, Keeseville. Here 

 you array yourself for the woods, and, eating a 

 hearty breakfast, you seat yourself in the coach at 

 7 A. M., the whip cracks, the horses spring, and you 

 are off on a fifty-six mile ride over a plank road, 

 which brings you, at 5 P. M., to Martin's, on the 

 Lower Saranac, where your guide, with his narrow 

 shell drawn up upon the beach, stands waiting you. 

 This is the shortest, easiest, and, beyond all odds, 

 the best route to the Adirondacks. You leave 

 Boston or ^N'ew York Monday at 8 A. M., and reach 

 your guide Tuesday at 5 P. M. So perfect are the 

 connections on this route, that, having engaged 



