THE NEW ADIRONDACKS. 



THE Adirondack Mountains of northeastern 

 New York affords a striking evidence of the 

 changes which advancing civilization has 

 wrought along our eastern seaboard. There 

 can be seen the development, almost within a decade, 

 of a wilderness into a great summer and autumn resort, 

 slotted with luxurious modem hotels, and traversed by 

 stage-routes and railways. 



The sportsman, whether he be hunter or fisherman, 

 familiar with even a portion of the Adirondack Moun- 

 tains, more poetically termed the North Woods, fifteen 

 or twenty years ago, and who now revisits the scenes 

 •of his youth, will find such visit a dream dispelled, for 



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