BROOK TROUT 



course all the way to Raquette Lake, a distance of 

 thirty miles, broken by three portages or "carries," 

 whose aggregate length is two and three-quarter miles. 

 Indeed there is a continuous water-course by way ot' 

 Raquette Lake, as will presently be shown, all the way 

 to the northernmost limit of the Adirondack region. 

 This " John Brown's Tract " is about twenty miles 

 square and contains 210,000 acres. As is well known, 

 it was once the seat of very considerable iron-works 

 which afterward failed in the fulfilment of a promise 

 of lucrative profit, and were abandoned. Arnold's 

 house is a relic of those ancient improvements. It is 

 one of the finest fishing and hunting grounds in the 

 whole section, though here, as elsewhere, the sportsman 

 must turn a little aside from the main thoroughfare if 

 he would find reward commensurate with his endeav- 

 ors. The adjacent country is hilly, though not strictly 

 mountainous; but there is an isolated peak called 

 " Bald Mountain," which is everywhere the most promi- 

 nent feature of the landscape. From its summit there 

 is a panorama of magnificent extent. Fourth Lake 

 with its green islands occupies the central position, 

 stretching away for six miles through an unbroken for- 

 est whose farthest limit is a blue mountain-range deli- 

 cately limned upon the horizon. There is a comfortable 

 house near the foot of the mountain where parties 

 proposing to ascend can find an abiding-place. 



From the west there are entrances to the Wilderness 

 via Lowville and Carthage, stations on the Black 



