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Lake Placid is by many regarded as the most beautiful sheet of 

 water in the Adirondacks. It is 4 miles long, i to i^^ miles wide 

 and at an altitude of 1859 feet. Mountains from looo to 3000 feet 

 high rise from its shores on all sides except the south. Mt White- 

 face stands out majestically more than 3000 feet above the waters of 

 Lake Placid on its northeastern side. There are three rock islands, 

 two of them large and densely wooded, rising several hundred feet 

 out of the lake. 



Upper and Lower Saranac lakes are 7^ and 5 miles long, and 

 1 571 and 1534 feet above sea level, respectively. They lie in a 

 much larger and more open valley than Lake Placid with surround- 

 ing mountains not nearly so high, the highest being from 1500 to 

 2000 feet above the lakes on the east and southeast. Lower Saranac 

 lake is full of rock islands. 



Big Tupper lake, 7 miles long and about i mile wide, lies in a 

 narrow valley with hills only a few hundred feet high immediately 

 surrounding it. Its surface is 1542 feet above the sea. There 

 is a string of rock islands through the middle of the lake. 



Long lake, in the very heart of the Adirondacks, is the most 

 remarkable linear type of lake in the whole region. With a length 

 of 1^/4 miles, it is almost perfectly straight and never more than 

 I mile wide. Its altitude is 1630 feet and lies in a narrow valley 

 of moderate depth, a few mountains only reaching heights of 1000 

 to 1700 feet immediately around the lake. It contains a number 

 of islands. 



Blue Mountain lake is only 2^ miles long by i^ miles wide 

 but has a beautiful setting aiiiong the mountains near the center 

 of the Great North Woods. It lies 1789 feet above sea level with 

 Blue mountain towering 2000 feet above its waters on the eastern 

 side. The picturesqueness of this lake is greatly enhanced by the 

 scattering, wooded, rock islands. Immediately on the north and 

 south the mountains are only of moderate height. 



Raquette lake has one of the most irregular shore lines of any 

 in the Adirondacks. It is 8 miles long and fully i mile wide at 

 several places. Its altitude is 1762 feet. This beautiful sheet of 

 water occupies portions of several old, low valleys. Only two 

 points reach heights of 500 to 700 feet around the sides of the 

 lake, but the picturesque islands and numerous bays and peninsulas 

 add much to the beauty of this large body of water. 



The Fulton chain of lakes, eight in all, lie in a moderately deep 

 narrow valley on the southwestern slope of the Adirondacks. 



