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Upper Saranac and one of the Stony Creek Ponds. The last 

 portage is about three-quarters of a mile, and is called the 

 Indian Carry. The Saint Eegis tribe used it a great deal 

 some years back. When you get there, you have come about, 

 fifteen miles, and if you prefer sleeping under a roof, and 

 getting a good supper, you will stop at Stephen Martin's. 

 Bartlett keeps a house for the accommodation of sportsmen 

 at the second carry, where there is good fly-fishing in the 

 rapids of the outlet, and below his house, until the 1st of 

 July. You get into the Raquette, as I have already told, 

 by way of Stony Creek Ponds, and the outlet called Stony 

 Brook. There is fine fly-fishing at the mouth of Amphusand 

 Brook, which comes into the lower pond, within a stone's 

 throw of where the outlet runs from it. Some years back 

 H. K. B. killed a Trout of four pounds in Stony Brook, but 

 when I was there the boats of excursionists bound to or from 

 the Eaquette, passing so frequently, had scared all the fish out 

 of it, or made them too shy to rise in the few pools you pass 

 by. When you emerge into the Raquette you are twenty 

 miles from William Martin's. 



The Raquette is a quiet, dark river, with a gentle current 

 and but few rapids. It heads in the lakes of Hamilton County, 

 and flows north into the St. Lawrence, above Lake St. Francis. 

 It is about fifteen miles from the entrance of Stony Creek to 

 Tupper's Lake, which connects with the river by a wide, deep 

 outlet. If you are not prepared to camp oat, you can find 

 accommodations at Stetson's, on the Raquette, about two 

 miles this side of the lake. 



Tupper's Lake is a beautiful sheet of water with pretty 

 islands, but you have not the splendid view of the sharp 

 peaks of the Adirondacks, which you get from almost any 

 part of the Lower Saranac, for you have passed to the west, 

 and beyond that range of mountains. 

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