. The Catskill Mountains . is in Albany, where Mahak-Neminaw, the ruling Indian chief, and six leading men of histribe had gathered for the purpose. Various trinkets andtrifles of stupendous value in the eyes of the noted red menwere given them, and the title, with its wonderful hiero-glyphics, was passed. Soon after that the aboriginal ownersbegan to disappear, retreating to other parts of the successors in the Catskills do not seem to have left manyimportant records of their occupancy which can be reliedupon. But in place of such history we are endowed with awealth of Indian lore
. The Catskill Mountains . is in Albany, where Mahak-Neminaw, the ruling Indian chief, and six leading men of histribe had gathered for the purpose. Various trinkets andtrifles of stupendous value in the eyes of the noted red menwere given them, and the title, with its wonderful hiero-glyphics, was passed. Soon after that the aboriginal ownersbegan to disappear, retreating to other parts of the successors in the Catskills do not seem to have left manyimportant records of their occupancy which can be reliedupon. But in place of such history we are endowed with awealth of Indian lore and Dutch tradition which have madethe region an enchanted shadow-land of legend and romance. Queen of all lovely rivers, lustrous queenOf flowing waters in our sweet new lands,Rippling through sunlight to the ocean sands,Within a smiling valley, and betweenRomantic shores of silvery summer green;Memorial of wild days and savage the patient deeds of patriotic the golden glorious years THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 27 SCENIC If being the best part of a mile in the air, andhaving views of farms and houses at your feet,with rivers looking Hke ribbons, and mountainsseeming to be haystacks of green grass under you, gives anysatisfaction to a man, I can recommend the spot. When I firstcame into the woods to live I used to have weak spells, and Ifelt lonesome; then I would go into the Catskills to spend afew days on that hill to look at the ways of man. These arethe immortal words of Leatherstocking, that most originalcharacter in fiction so aptly characterized by Carlyle as theone melodious synopsis of man and nature. Standing halfway between savage and civilized life, hear him as he con-tinues: The river was in sight for seventy miles under myfeet, looking like a curled shaving, though it was eight longmiles to its banks. I saw the hills in the Hampshire grants,the Highlands of the river, and all that God had done, or mancan do, as far as the eye co
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