. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . Way Hnnse. which rptaiiis much nf its inait tryet—albeit touched with the modern ohMnont STEAMBOATS. T^HE first steamboat on Lake George was the1 ^^James Caldwell, Captain Winans command-ing. It was built about the year 1816 to20. Ithadtwolong boilers and a brick smoke stack, and could go theentire length of the lake in one day—nearly, if notquite, in the time a smart man would row the it was suspected this stupendous achievementof engineering skill could never have been attainedwithout the connivance of the evil one, and wasve
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . Way Hnnse. which rptaiiis much nf its inait tryet—albeit touched with the modern ohMnont STEAMBOATS. T^HE first steamboat on Lake George was the1 ^^James Caldwell, Captain Winans command-ing. It was built about the year 1816 to20. Ithadtwolong boilers and a brick smoke stack, and could go theentire length of the lake in one day—nearly, if notquite, in the time a smart man would row the it was suspected this stupendous achievementof engineering skill could never have been attainedwithout the connivance of the evil one, and wasvery properly struck by lightning on one of its earlytrips. Even this warning did not prevent the stiff-necked owners from attempting to run her thesecond year, and she was mysteriously burned withfire while lying at her dock at Caldwell. It wasthought later, however, that she caught fire fromover-insurance. The next boat that kissed the waves, Tlie Moun-taineer, was built about 1824. It v^^s commandedby Captain Laribee. This boat was sided with t
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