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its production and sustenance ? On higher ground 

 about a mile distant was a trout pond, the shores of 

 which were steep and rocky. 



Our next move was, a tramp of about twelve miles 

 through the wilderness, most of the way in a drenching 

 rain, to a place called the Lower Iron Works, situated 

 on the road leading in to Long Lake, which is about 

 a day's drive farther on. We found a comfortable ho- 

 tel here, and were glad enough to avail ourselves of the 

 shelter and warmth which it offered. There was a little 

 settlement and some quite good farms. The place 

 commands a fine view to the north of Indian Pass, 

 Mount Marcy, and the adjacent mountains. On the 

 afternoon of our arrival and also the next morning the 

 view was completely shut off by the fog. But about the 

 middle of the forenoon the wind changed, the fog lifted 

 and revealed to us the grandest mountain scenery we 

 had beheld on our journey. There they sat about fifteen 

 miles distant, a group of them ; Mount Marcy, Mount 

 McTntyre, and Mount Golden, the real Adirondac mon- 

 archs. It was an impressive sight, rendered doubly so 

 by the sudden manner in which it was revealed to us 

 by that scene shifter the Wind. 



I saw blackbirds at this place, and sparrows, and the 

 solitary sandpiper, and the Canada woodpecker, and a 

 large number of humming-birds. Indeed I saw more 

 of the latter here than I ever before saw in any one 

 locality. Their squeaking and whirring were almost 

 incessant. 



