PREFACE TO NEW EDITION. 



This work was published several years ago, when the 

 Adirondack country was but little known and very diffi- 

 cult of access. It was received with much favor, not for 

 its intrinsic merits, but from the descriptions it gave 

 of the vast untrodden wilderness of New York State. 

 Since then, and owing in some measure to the book, the 

 region has become a great summer resort of tourists, and 

 new explorations have opened new lakes and laid out new 

 routes, making additional matter necessary to render the 

 work complete. This, together with the fact that the 

 former edition had been out of print some time, and a 

 new one was called for, has induced me to add the results of 

 a recent and more extensive expedition into this extraor- 

 dinary country — going over some ground very rarely 

 trodden, and covering more completely the northern and 

 eastern plateau of the Adirondacks. It will be seen that 

 very few changes have been wrought except the slight 

 ones caused by the influx of travellers. Ladies now visit 



