Forest leaves . Trout Fishing in the Adirondacks. but the number of fortunate persons who annually invade this Won-derland of the East, this ^Venice of the Woods,* these Alps ofAmerica, would next summer be augmented by many hundreds andpossibly by many thousands of ardent admirers of the wild, the grandand the beautiful in nature. I wish this could be so. I wish I could adequately describe thetranscendent loveliness of these blue Adirondack lakes, the sweetness,the coolness, the majesty of these deep green forests and the ruggedgrandeur and stolid grimness of these gray Achean peaks; and so e


Forest leaves . Trout Fishing in the Adirondacks. but the number of fortunate persons who annually invade this Won-derland of the East, this ^Venice of the Woods,* these Alps ofAmerica, would next summer be augmented by many hundreds andpossibly by many thousands of ardent admirers of the wild, the grandand the beautiful in nature. I wish this could be so. I wish I could adequately describe thetranscendent loveliness of these blue Adirondack lakes, the sweetness,the coolness, the majesty of these deep green forests and the ruggedgrandeur and stolid grimness of these gray Achean peaks; and so en- * W. H. H (Adirondack) Murray. 26 FOREST LEAVES thuse every woods-loving man and woman of the two continents, everyperson in whose veins runs the red blood of true sportsmanship, andwhose very heart-throbs heat in accord with the pulsations of animatenature, with a burning desire to come to this region, to witness thesewonders and these beauties, to view and to revel in the glory of thesemajestic mountains, t


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