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had a substantial roomy frame house and any amount 

 of grass and woodland. He had good barns and kept 

 considerable stock, and raised various farm products, 

 but only for his own use, as the difficulties of transpor- 

 tation to market some seventy miles distant made it no 

 object. He usually went to Ticonderoga on Lake Cham- 

 plain once a year for his groceries, etc. His post-office 

 was twelve miles below at the Lower Works, where the 

 mail passed twice a week. There was not a doctor, or 

 lawyer, or preacher within twenty-five miles. In winter, 

 months elapse without their seeing anybody from the 

 outside world. In summer, parties occasionally pass 

 through here on their way to Indian Pass and Mount 

 Marcy. Hundreds of tons of good timothy hay annu- 

 ally rot down upon the cleared land. 



After nightfall we went out and walked up and down 

 the grass-grown streets. It was a curious and melan- 

 choly spectacle. The remoteness and surrounding wild- 

 ness rendered the scene doubly impressive. And the 

 next day and the next the place was an object of won- 

 der. There were about thirty buildings in all, most of 

 them small frame houses with a door and two windows 

 opening into a small yard in front and a garden in the 

 rear, such as are usually occupied by the laborers in a 

 country manufacturing district. There was one large 

 two-story boarding-house, a school-house with a cupola 

 and a bell in it, and numerous sheds and forges, and a 

 saw-mill. In front of the saw-mill, and ready to be 

 rolled to their place on the carriage, lay a large pile of 



