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LUMBERMEN A STUDENT AND HUNTER OUTWITTED BY A 



PROFESSOR A PHILOSOPHICAL HUSBAND A PROSPEC- 

 TIVE WIDOW LOOKING OUT FOR HER OWN INTEREST. 



Schroon Lake, August. 

 Dear H : 



After the description I have given of the wilder- 

 ness and its extent, I seem to hear you inquiring, 

 " What do people live on there ?" Well, not much of 

 anything ; yet money is made in this region — that is, 

 out nearer the settlements. You have no conception 

 of the quantity of lumber that is taken every winter 

 from some part of this vast plateau to Albany. A 

 thousand people will be in these woods, where, in the 

 summer, there is not a living being. Speculators buy 

 the land for the sake of the timber, and then in the 

 winter carry in provisions, etc., for the lumbermen 

 who are to cut it. Log huts are put up in the shel- 



