480 WILD SCENES AND WILD HUNTERS. 
Fil Dorado of the sportsman cémbined. It is fourteen by 
saven L.iles, average, broken into two great basins, connected 
by a narrow strait. It is the largest and most savagely 
picturesque of the lakes, and most abounding in game of 
every sort. 
rout of both kinds are so abundant in the great basins and 
the numerous inlets, that the sport soon becomes fatiguing. 
It has twenty-four islands,.of from one hundred acres to ten 
feet. On the west side is the inlet of a singular chain of small 
lakes, eight in number, all of which abound in both varieties 
of trout, and the accompanying fish, suckers, chubs, shiners, 
blue cats, sun perch, etc. This remarkable chain extends 
about fourteen miles north and east of the lakes, is deep, 
clear and ice cold. On the east side of Racket Lake is the 
inlet of Blue Mountain Lake, which is cold—almost to 
freezing point—and like a solid crystal set upon a snowbank 
of blanched sand. 
You can see, as you hang suspended in mid-air here in 
your boat, the shoals of trout go by in twenty feet water! 
Think of that! Then comes Long Lake again—this time 
in earnest—for it is twenty miles long, with an outlet 
towards Lake Champlain. Here is the difficult paradise of 
sportsmen ; and from Louis Lake, north, the moose becomes 
more abundant, with its attendant train of smaller game, 
and the distance, all told, from our perch on Speclater 
Mountain to Long Lake, is only sixty miles! These are 
the principal points of attraction within the range of our 
utinost vision which I have here noted; though now we can 
perceive that even yet there are more than thirty-six lakes, 
the names and distances of which I have not space to notice 
in this bird’s-eye view. 
But verily, this view of this our exceeding riches, in a 
land so rude and unpromising in the mouth of fame, and it 
muy be together with the rareness of the air, has sharpened 
our appetite for testing again the flavor of the good things 
