BROOK TROUT 



Entering from the north at Malone on the Ogdens- 

 burg & Northern Railroad, after a fortnight spent at 

 Chazy and Chateaugay Lakes, the route is by the east 

 branch of Saint Regis River to Meacham Pond, famous 

 for its trout and its beautiful beach, and thence by 

 stream through Osgood's Pond, with a half-mile carry 

 to Paul Smith's, on the Lower Saint Regis Lake, the 

 preferred and best-known starting-point for the interior 

 Wilderness for all visitors from the East. It is the 

 easiest and shortest route, and affords fine fishing the 

 whole distance. There is also an excellent wagon- 

 road from Malone to Martin's, a favorite hotel on the 

 Lower Saranac — distance fifty miles. 



From the northeast there is a railroad twenty miles 

 long from Plattsburg to Point of Rocks, Ausable Sta- 

 tion, on the Ausable River, whence lines of Concord 

 stages are run daily over excellent roads to Paul 

 Smith's and Martin's, diverging at Bloomingdale, the 

 post-ofRce nearest to either point. The distance by 

 stage is about forty miles. The same stages also run 

 from Port Kent, on Lake Champlain, through Keese- 

 ville to the railroad terminus at Point of Rocks, a trip 

 of thirteen miles. By this route a great deal is saved 

 in distance ; but thirteen miles of staging are added, 

 and nothing is gained in time, as the stages all connect 

 with the railroad trains. Whether the tourist leaves 

 the steamer at Port Kent or continues to Plattsburg, 

 he will have to remain at a hotel over night. The 

 Wetherill House, and Fouquet's Hotel, at Plattsburg, 



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