BROOK TROUT 



the Adirondack hills and lakes. He loses, but his loss 

 is the gain of thousands and thousands of less fortunate 

 beings, to whom the woods and hills bring relief from 

 the heat of summer, renewed life and strength, and a 

 keen realization of the old saying that "man made 

 cities, but God made the country." 



Lakes George and Champlain, which are always 

 associated with the Adirondacks in the public mind, 

 have undergone comparatively few changes during the 

 past twenty years, and so do not require more than a 

 passing allusion in this sketch. Lake George is still 

 the same beautiful sheet of water, set in a frame of 

 forest-clothed mountains, as when the first French ex- 

 plorer gave to it from its azure depths the name of 

 Saint Sacrament. There are more villas on its shores, 

 more boats upon its waters, a new hotel here and 

 there, or an old one restored, but summer after sum- 

 mer the lake calls to its lovers to return to its beauties 

 in such a way that they must respond. Lake Champ- 

 lain now has the fine Bluff Point Hotel, just below 

 Plattsburg on its western bank, to add to its attrac- 

 tions, and the tourist, even if he or she is familiar with 

 both lakes, should not fail to again traverse them. 

 Their beauties never fade, and whether one sees Lake 

 Champlain from the slower and comfortable steamboat 

 or the fine rushing trains of the Delaware & Hudson, 

 which traverse its entire western shore, or steams 

 through Lake George, one cannot tire of the infinite 

 variety of water and landscape which both lakes afford. 



