WILD LAKES OF THE ARIONDACK. 477 
1s most happily named. Its shape is somewhat irregular, 
and its length is four miles, with an average breadth of two 
miles, and a depth of sixty feet. At the opposite extremity 
is the narrow but deep outlet which forms the Sockendog 
River, after passing through Cungamunck Bay, a few res 
farther on, and then strikes off to the north-east, a bold 
and boisterous mountain stream, clattering among tho hills 
until it looses itself in the great Hudson, as its western 
branch. 
The shores of Lake Pleasant have quite a cultivated aspect 
—this is of course comparative. A number of beautiful 
grazing farms are opened to view around its rolling shores 
down to the water’s edge. They are very rudely cultivated 
yet, but they might be made surpassingly lovely scme day. 
At the N. W. extremity of Lake Pleasant is the inlet of 
Round Lake, which is about half a mile in length. Round 
Lake! Gloomy, wild and picturesque Round Lake! twin 
sister of Lake Pleasant, “but grander and more rude than 
she !”—rimmed, like a Titan’s brimming drinking cup, with 
low rocks, all around and above them the unbroken forest 
slanting up to blue-topped hills. How deep, austere and 
solemn its repose. 
What a shadow beside the sunny loveliness of its contrasted 
sister! It is three miles both ways, and deeper than Lake 
Pleasant. There is no sign of cultivation upon its savage 
shores except at the outlet. It has several inlets, which go 
glimmering faintly through the narrow valleys towards the 
north-west. They connect it still with smaller lakes, Echo 
Lake, Lake Sound, and—Q! euphonious accord !—Mud 
Lake! 
When a few miles to the west another chain commences with 
Long Lake, which is two miles and a half in length by a 
half in width. This connects with Fly Lake, which is 
smaller still, and this with Falls Lake, about the same size, 
which outlets into Piseco, eleven miles west. This is 
