THE OLD ADIRONDACKS. 



LAST summer the New York '^imes published 

 an article deprecating the "ruinous public- 

 ity" given by Rev. W. H. H. Murray to 

 the sporting attractions of the Adirondacks, 

 and lamenting that this exceptional region should have 

 " fallen from that estate of fish and solitude for which 

 it was originally celebrated." Railroads, stages, tele- 

 graphs and hotels, it says, " have followed in the train 

 of the throng who rushed for the wilderness. The 

 desert has blossomed with parasols, and the waste 

 places are filled with picnic-parties, revelling in lemon- 

 ade and sardines. The piano has banished the deer 

 from the entire region, and seldom is any one of the 

 countless multitude of sportsmen fortunate enough to 

 meet with even the track of a deer." The writer re- 

 joices, and with reason, that Canadian forests are yet 



undesecrated, and are likely to remain so, " unless some 



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