332 THE ADIRONDACK. 



a camp. But deer leave the place where decaying 

 carcases are left. The fetid odor that arises from them 

 fills the surrounding atmosphere to a great extent, and 

 the deer, with his keen smelling powers, will snuff it a 

 mile away, and avoid the spot with instinctive fear. 



Soon as our first boat arrived, we took one guide and 

 started for the foot of the pond, where a cold stream 

 comes in, to take some trout, while the other two guides 

 and boats with the baggage were getting across. After 

 rowing a mile we reached the spot, and soon the smooth 

 surface of the lake was alive with the leaping fish. In 

 a short time we caught more than we could eat for din- 

 ner, and our boats heaving in sight, we reeled up and 

 prepared to descend Stony Creek to the Eaquette Eiver. 

 This erratic stream enters the lake at one extremity, and 

 instead of passing across or through it, turns directly 

 back, as if its only object was to string this pretty sheet 

 of water on itself like a pendant on a cord. So near 

 together are the inlet and outlet, that one can stand on 

 the point of land made by the two streams, and without 

 moving from his place, fish in both. 



Of all the crooked streams it has been my fortune to 

 see or traverse, this certainly will bear the palm. So 

 sharp are the angles, that in turning them the boat 



