. The Catskill Mountains; . day, the towering crags grow in beauty and grandeur as thecycles of eternity roll silently on. Ever eloquent in their Cre-ators praise, they reach out a beckoning hand to enervated menand women the world over: to the discouraged and faltering-worker, the unfortunate idler and the successful man of busi-ness. All alike may here stand above the turmoils and theirksome pleasures of life and compare the boasted achievementsof men with the mighty spectacle of earth and sky. which nowfills the soul with awe and impresses one anew with his THH LAKE AT S
. The Catskill Mountains; . day, the towering crags grow in beauty and grandeur as thecycles of eternity roll silently on. Ever eloquent in their Cre-ators praise, they reach out a beckoning hand to enervated menand women the world over: to the discouraged and faltering-worker, the unfortunate idler and the successful man of busi-ness. All alike may here stand above the turmoils and theirksome pleasures of life and compare the boasted achievementsof men with the mighty spectacle of earth and sky. which nowfills the soul with awe and impresses one anew with his THH LAKE AT STAMFORD. N. Y, THE CATSKIII. MOUNTAINS. 21 WHERE AND WHAT ^:^ ^ ^ said perhaps concern- ino- the location and structure ot thisTHEY ARE most interesting-group ot mountains. For thirty vears and more the region has been before the pub-lic as a summer resort and thousands of admiring visitors havejourneyed to and fro each vear. But there are many otherthousands who have never vet seen the locality, and for thesethis book is mainly written. The modern processes of thepictorial art have indeed made some of the scenery familiar theworld over, and with much pleasing and artistic cannot, however, be said so unreservedly of the vast massof descriptive matter which has appeared in the public pressfrom time to time. Much of this was mere imaginary drivel,misleading and fictitious, betraying the writers unfamiliaritywith his subject. In fact, one of our modern encyclopediaslocates the entire range in Greene county, while it really tra-verses large parts of Ulster. Dela
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