WHY I GO THERE. 11 



which, judged from a purely artistic point of view, 

 combined so many beauties in connection with 

 such grandeur as the lakes, mountains, and forest 

 of the Adirondack region presented to the gazer's 

 eye." And yet thousands are in Europe to-day 

 as tourists who never gave a passing thought to 

 this marvellous country lying as it were at their 

 very doors. 



Another reason why I visit the Adirondacks, 

 and urge others to do so, is because I deem the 

 excursion eminently adapted to restore impaired 

 health. Indeed, it is marv^ellous what benefit 

 physically is often derived from a trip of a few 

 weeks to these woods. To such as are afflicted 

 with that dire parent of ills, dyspepsia, or have 

 lurking in their system consumptive tendencies, 

 I most earnestly recommend a month's experience 

 among the pines. The air which you there inhale 

 is such as can be found only in high mountainous 

 regions, pure, rarefied, and bracing. The amount 

 of venison steak a consumptive will consume 

 after a week's residence in that appetizing at- 

 mosphere is a subject of daily and increasing 

 wonder. I have known delicate ladies and fragile 

 school-girls, to whom all food at home was dis- 

 tasteful and eating a pure matter of duty, average 

 a gain of a poimd per day for the round trip. 

 This is no exaggeration, as some who will read 

 these lines know. The spruce, hemlock, balsam. 



