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About half a mile northeast of the village is Lake 

 Henderson, a very irregular and picturesque sheet of 

 water, surrounded by dark evergreen forests, and abut- 

 ted by two or three bold promontories with mottled 

 white and gray rocks. Its greatest extent in any one 

 direction is perhaps less than a mile. Its waters are 

 perfectly clear and abound in lake trout. A consider- 

 able stream flows into it which comes down from In- 

 dian Pass. 



A mile south of the village is. Lake Sandford. This 

 is a more open and exposed sheet of water and much 

 larger. From some parts of it Mount Marcy and the 

 gorge of the Indian Pass are seen to excellent advan- 

 tage. The Indian Pass shows as a huge cleft in the 

 mountain, the gray walls rising on one side perpendic- 

 ularly for many hundred feet. This lake abounds in 

 white and yellow perch and in pickerel ; of the latter 

 single specimens are often caught which weigh fifteen 

 pounds. There were a few wild ducks on both lakes. 

 A brood of the goosander or red merganser, the young 

 not yet able to fly, were the occasion of some spirited 

 rowing. But with two pairs of oars in a trim light skiff, 

 it was impossible to come up with them. Yet we could 

 not resist the temptation to give them a chase every 

 day when we first came on the lake. It needed a good 

 long pull to sober us down so we could fish. 



The land on the east side of the lake had been burnt 

 over, and was now mostly grown up with wild cherry and 

 red raspberry bushes. Ruffed grouse were found here 

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