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alone," it is equally the law that he cannot very well get 

 along without it. 



We launched our boats upon the lake and rowed to the 

 head of Long Island, where we put up our tents for the 

 night. I have spoken so often of the loveliness of the even- 

 ings on these beautiful lakes, that to attempt a description 

 of the one we enjoyed on this romantic island, would be only 

 a tiresome repetition. But there was a splendor about the 

 heavens above, and their counterpart in the depths below, 

 which I have scarcely ever seen equalled. There was no 

 moon in the early evening, and so pure and clear was the 

 atmosphere, so moveless and still the waters, that the stars 

 seemed to come out in vaster numbers, and with an intenser 

 glow, and to be reflected back from away down in the lake 

 with a brighter refulgence ; the hills along the shore seemed 

 to stand up in bolder outline ; the bays to lay in deeper 

 shadow ; while the tall peaks stood in grim solemnity, like 

 pillars supporting the mighty arches of the sky. 



" I was asking myself," said Smith, as we sat looking out 

 over the water, in the evening, or gazing down into the 

 glowing depths, and listening to the night voices, faint and 

 far off in the old forests, as they came floating over the lake, 

 " I was asking myself, as we journeyed around the falls to-day, 

 and as we stood on the rock where the river comes leaping 

 down and plunging into the lake, whether the march of im- 

 provement would ever spread a Lowell around those falls, or 

 subject those wild waters to the uses of civilization. Whether 



