THE OLD ADIRONDACKS 



exceptions. One is a road to "Joe's Lake" in the 

 lower part of Herkimer County, which leaves the town 

 of Prospect, on the Black River Railroad; and the 

 other a boat-route from Clarksboro, on the Grasse 

 River, to Massawepie Pond at its head. Clarksboro is 

 an iron region at the terminus of a branch of the 

 Watertown & Potsdam Railroad. Massawepie Pond 

 is within striking distance of the Raquette River, near 

 Piercefield Falls, and is visited by old hunters who 

 mean business, and are not afraid to camp out or follow 

 a blind trail through the woods. There are plenty of 

 deer and trout there for those who will hunt them in 

 their season. Massawepie is accessible also by the old 

 Potsdam wagon-road to Tupper's Lake. 



The "circumbendibus" route generally taken by 

 ladies and gentlemen who purpose " doing " the Adiron- 

 dacks thoroughly, is from the foot of the Upper Sar- 

 anac Lake, three miles over the " Sweeny carry " to 

 the Raquette River ; thence through Big Tupper Lake 

 and stream, via Round Pond, to Little Tupper Lake; 

 thence through a series of little ponds and connecting 

 streams, with one three-mile carry, to Forked Lake; 

 thence carry a mile and a half to Raquette Lake, the 

 southernmost point of the tour. From Raquette Lake 

 into Long Lake, with three short "carries," thence 

 through Raquette River, Stony Creek, and Stony 

 Creek Pond, with a mile " carry," back to Upper Sar- 

 anac Lake. From thence visitors for Martin's Ferry 

 carry over at Bartlett's through Round Lake to the 



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