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fill hours. Only beware how you appropriate it, 

 for we have a sort of life-lease on that camp- 

 ground, and may appear to claim possession when 

 you least expect us. Then paddle to Beaver Bay, 

 and find that point in it from which you can 

 arouse a whole family of sleeping echoes along 

 the western ridge and the heavy woods opposite. 

 Then go to Constable Point, and quench your thirst 

 at the coolest, sweetest spring of pure water from 

 which you ever drank. Go next to the southern 

 part of the lake, so hidden behind the islands that 

 you would never suspect such a lovely sheet of 

 water lay beyond, with its two beautiful reaches of 

 softly shining sand, one white as silver, the other 

 yellow as gold ; and in the waters which lave the 

 golden, find the best bathing in the whole wilder- 

 ness. Do not leave this region until you have 

 made an excursion to that Lake George in minia- 

 ture. Blue Mountain Lake, and fill your mind 

 with an impression which will remain in memo- 

 ry as one of the sweet and never-to-be-forgotten 

 recollections of life. Wlien you have retraced 

 your progress up, and reached the mouth of Eams- 

 horn Creek, keep on down the Racquette imtil you 

 have swung round to Big Tupper Lake and lunched 

 on the sloping ledge over which the outlet of 

 Round Lake and Little Tupper pours its full tide in 

 thunder and foam ; and, if it be not too late in the 

 season, and you know how to use the rod, you w^ill 



