The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . - and August, are composed of dense spikes, of a rich bluecolour. A picture of the moose-head is seen iu the water beneath the initial letter at the head ofChapter I. oo THE HUDSOX. The rapids at the head of Harriss Lake arc veiy picturesque. Look-ing up from them, Goodeno\v Mountain is seen in the distance, and stillmore remote are glimpses of the Windfall range. SVe passed the rapidsupon boulders, and then royaged do-^n to the confluence of the twostreams just mentioned. From a rough rocky bluff a mile below thatpoint, we obtained a distant view o
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . - and August, are composed of dense spikes, of a rich bluecolour. A picture of the moose-head is seen iu the water beneath the initial letter at the head ofChapter I. oo THE HUDSOX. The rapids at the head of Harriss Lake arc veiy picturesque. Look-ing up from them, Goodeno\v Mountain is seen in the distance, and stillmore remote are glimpses of the Windfall range. SVe passed the rapidsupon boulders, and then royaged do-^n to the confluence of the twostreams just mentioned. From a rough rocky bluff a mile below thatpoint, we obtained a distant view of three of the higher peaks of theAdirondacks—Tahawus or Mount Marcy, Mount Colden, and MountMIntyre. ~\Ve returned at evening beneath a canopy of magnificentclouds; and that night was made stiangely luminous by one of the most. KAPIDS AT THE HEAD OF HAHKISS LAKE. Splendid displays of the Aurora Eorealis ever seen upon the was observed as far south as Charleston, in South Carolina. Sabattis is au active Methodist, and at his request (their minister nothaving anived) Mr. Buckingham read the beautiful liturgy of the Churchof England on Sunday morning to a congregation of thirty or forty people,in the school-house on our guides farm. In the afternoon we attendeda prayer-meeting at the same place ; and early the next morning, whilea storm of wind and heavy mist was sweeping over the country, startedwith our two guides, in a lumber waggon, for the Adirondack Mountains.\Ve now left our boat^, in which and on foot Ave had travelled, from the THE HUDSON. 23 lower Saranac to Harriss Lake, more than seventy miles. It was atedious journey of twenty-six miles, most of the way over a corduroy road—a causeway of logs. On the way we passed the confluence of LakeDelia with the Adirondack branch of the Hudson,
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