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whose shadows make it a cool retreat in the heat of noon, 

 and whose dense foliage fills the air with freshness and fra- 

 grance when the sun is hot in the sky. Towards its head, a 

 cold stream comes creeping around the boulders, and danc- 

 ing and singing down the rocks from a copious spring, a short 

 way back in the forest. Near where this brook enters we 

 landed at seven o'clock to breakfast. We supplied ourselves 

 with fish by casting across the mouth of the little stream, 

 while our boatmen were preparing a fire. Our sail of eight 

 miles down the lake furnished us with appetites which gave 

 to the beautiful speckled trout we caught there a peculiar 

 relish. We arranged matters so that the Doctor and Smith 

 were to return in one boat to the Saranacs, while Spalding 

 and myself were to move on down the Rackett with the 

 other two. Cullen and Wood were to go with us to Potts- 

 dam, from whence our route lay by railroad to Ogdens- 

 burgh. We had, on entering the woods, dispatched our 

 baggage to the former place to await our arrival there. At 

 nine o'clock we launched out upon the lake again. There 

 are two outlets which enter the Rackett, half a mile apart, 

 down the right hand one of which the Doctor and Smith's 

 course lay, and ours down the left. We shook hands with 

 our friends, and lay upon our oars while they passed on 

 towards home, wishing them a pleasant voyage, and a safe 

 return. 



" I say," shouted Smith, as they were about rounding a 

 point that would hide them from our view, " remember our 

 compact about killing the bear. The glory of that achieve- 



