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They also are found in the Beaver Kill, the Mongaup, the 

 Willewemock, and many other kindred streams. Toward the 

 northwest we strike the lesser lakes, where the black basse, 

 pickerel, and perch are found in abundance. Then turning 

 again to the northeast, we find the summer resorts of Sara- 

 toga and other lakes celebrated for the delicious quality and 

 activity on the hook of the same description of the finny 

 race ; and next is that attractive and world-renowned spot — 



LAKE GEORGE. 



"Holy depths of stainless crystal, 

 Sown with islands out of dream-land." 



" Divinest of waters ! fairest of lakes ! And thou art beau- 

 tiful, greatly beautiful, in thy length and breadth, in thine 

 islands and meadow-shores and mountains, and in the calm- 

 ness and isolation of thy dwelling. Fairest of lakes ! " I 

 said ; " Clarens is not so fair, nor Constance, nor Grassmere, 

 nor Lomond. Not so fair in water, in islands, in shores, in 

 skies, or in mountains. It is, in modest speech, the most de- 

 lightful summer resort for those who love the beauty in Na- 

 ture, or the sports of hunting and fishing, in this or any other 

 country ! " 



A correspondent says that 50,000 salmon-trout have lately 

 been put into the lake, and many new hotels have been erect- 

 ed at Bolton and other parts of this charming sheet of water. 

 To the west and north, in Hamilton, Essex, and Franklin 

 Counties, are Schroon- Lake, Paradox, Raquette, Peseco, 

 Saranac, Tupper and Osgood, Ausable Ponds, and rivers 

 Saranac, Chateaugay, Raquette, and other ponds, lakes, and 

 tributaries too numerous to mention in the Adirondack re- 

 gion, made noted by the Rev. W. H. H. Murray and other 

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