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schroon lake a nut for sportsmen woods on fire. 



Schroon Lake. 



Dear H : 



Lake Schroon is some nine miles long, gently wav- 

 ing in its shape and dotted with green islands. Some 

 have compared it to Lake Como — from one point it 

 bears an exact resemblance in shape to the neck of a 

 swan. It is a most beautiful sheet of water — the 

 shores sloping down to it on one side like those of 

 Skaneateles, and a bold mountain kneeling in it on 

 the other. At the foot is the residence of Mr. Ben- 

 thuysen, commanding one of the finest views I have 

 ever seen. The lake here is narrow, and as it half 

 encircles the house, it looks like the Hudson River in 

 its windings. There could hardly be a more pic- 

 turesque situation for a summer residence ; and in 

 England it would soon be crowned by a magnificent 



