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THE NATUEALISTS’ COMPANION. 
A Naturalist Canoeing 200 Miles 
in the Adirondacks. 
BY ballon. 
_ 
CHAPTER XI. 
Next morning, being Sunday, we 
kept late hours and did not have break¬ 
fast until 10 o’clock. After a thorough 
perusal of that useful meal we started in 
the canoes for a tour ot inspection around 
the lake. Follingsby’s Pond is three 
miles long, and is the least visited of 
any of the lakes we paddled on. It used 
to be a hivorite resort of Agassiz, Lowell 
and other eminent literary men, who 
had a shanty here. In the evening, just 
before dusk, the Professor and myself 
set to work to have a good fire, d'he 
shore for a long distance was covered 
with light, fine driftwood. Of this we 
collected about two cords and made a 
pile six feet high, in front of the tent. 
A match was applied and the whole ])ile 
blazed away, lighting up the beach for 
a great ways. But in a short time it 
began to grow hotter and hotter, and 
the tent was in danger of catching fire, 
so we were obliged to move it before 
going to sleep. Monday being our last 
day on the water, we were up bright 
and early and succeeded in making bet¬ 
ter time through Follingsby’s Brook 
than in coming up. Paddling up the 
Raquet River, we reached Raquet Falls 
about noon, around which we carried the 
canvass boats. The falls are simply 
very steep rapids. The river fiills here 
fifty feet in three-quarters of a mile. 
We put in again above the falls and 
paddled ahead for Long Lake, which 
we reached at sunset. We put up the 
tent on the remains of an old military 
road, which was used between Albany 
and Inebec during the French and In¬ 
dian war. The remains of a bridge over 
Raquet River is still visible. Next day, 
as we had but fourteen miles to go, we 
took our time, stopping at the shanty 
for dinner. . Night found us at the ho¬ 
tel at the head of the lake, where we 
stopped for the night. Next day, after 
a tiresome jaunt oyer the road we came 
in on, we reached Schnectady, and the 
next day brought us home, looking 
as brown as Indians and with apj etitcs 
which threatened to swamp the family. 
Thus ended my. first caiK^e trip in the 
Adirondack wilderness. 
THE END. 
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