BROOK TROUT 



(When a man is headed for the Wilderness, he is said 

 to be " going in.") 



There are two other routes from the east, namely, 

 from Westport, and from Crown Point, on Lake 

 Champlain. Both of these take the visitor into the 

 heart of the mountains, the birth-place of winds and 

 the nursery of snow-fed sources. Here old " Boreas 

 Mountain " dwells ; here is Boreas Lake, the fountain- 

 head of Boreas River. Here also are Lakes Sanford, 

 Henderson, and Delia, which are often resorted to by 

 pertinacious sportsmen ; but as these are most accessi- 

 ble from the south by the old Fort Edward stage-route, 

 or the Adirondack Railroad, which is now extended to 

 North Creek Station, sixty miles from Saratoga, the 

 above-named routes are seldom used. 



The Fort Edward road leaves the Saratoga & 

 Whitehall Railway at the station of that name, and ex- 

 tends to Long Lake, a distance of seventy-five miles, 

 touching Lake George at Caldwell, Schroon Lake at 

 Potterville, and passing within easy access of Lakes 

 Delia, Sanford, Henderson, Harris, and Catlin. 



From the south access is had to Round Lake and 

 Lakes Pleasant and Piseco — the well-stocked waters of 

 the famed "Piseco Club" — by a good wagon-road 

 which leaves Little Falls or Herkimer on the New 

 York Central Railroad. The distance from Herkimer 

 to the head of Piseco Lake is fifty-two miles. 



The foregoing make up a list complete of all the 

 highways into the Adirondack Wilderness, with two 



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