328 THE ADIRONDACK. 



another carrying-place of a mile, which would bring us 

 on the waters that run into the Eaquette Eiver. By 

 the way, did it ever occur to you what an extraordinary 

 water-shed the State of New York is ? It helps supply 

 Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, the Eiver St. Lawrence, Lake 

 Champlain, the Atlantic Ocean, and, last of all, the 

 Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico. 



In crossing this portion of the Upper Saranac, when 

 within about a mile of the carrying-place, you find a 

 little to the right of your course a spot where there is 

 an extraordinary echo. The voice is repeated five dis- 

 tinct times. The last and fifth time the echo is exceed- 

 ingly soft and musical, instead of loud and startling, as 

 on the Wengern Alp. On the latter ten distinct echoes 

 return on the discharge of a mortar, tumbling back in 

 extraordinary confusion and rapidity until the ninth is 

 counted, when there is a pause, and the whole seems 

 over. Suddenly, and without premonition, there comes 

 thundering through the clear atmosphere a report seem- 

 ingly louder than the original explosion, and which rolls, 

 and rattles, and storms through the cliffs, as if about to 

 unseat them and send them headlong to the gulfs below, 

 It is the voice of the stern and distant Wetterhorn, bid- 

 ding his children keep silence. 



