In olde New York; sketches of old times and places in both the state and the city . autumn days, long after the stream of touristshad run away, we made many voyages of discovery,each so interesting that it might with profit occupya week of a summer sojourn. One should estabhshhimself at the pretty village of Ticonderoga, up theoutlet of Lake George, where one finds good hotelsand all the amenities. Lake George is three milesaway on the south, and Lake Champlain two mileson the east, wliile at the door in the falls of the outlet isalmost every variety of form that falling water canassume. This
In olde New York; sketches of old times and places in both the state and the city . autumn days, long after the stream of touristshad run away, we made many voyages of discovery,each so interesting that it might with profit occupya week of a summer sojourn. One should estabhshhimself at the pretty village of Ticonderoga, up theoutlet of Lake George, where one finds good hotelsand all the amenities. Lake George is three milesaway on the south, and Lake Champlain two mileson the east, wliile at the door in the falls of the outlet isalmost every variety of form that falling water canassume. This outlet, as it leaves Lake George, is aconsiderable mill stream of dear cold water, sparkhngand murmuring among meadows until reacliing thevillage it falls nearly 250 feet in as many yards, cover-ing almost at a leap the difference in level between thetwo lakes. In its natural state the cataract must havebeen a romantic picture, but its waters are now * soobstructed by dams and vexed by mill-wheels thatmuch of their beauty has vanished. Pulp mills en- This was written in 1886. -^. Pi ^ M A Decayed Stronghold 119 gaged in making paper from the poplar which growsalong the lake shore, a woolen mill, and long, lowworkshops, in which the graphite found in the neigh-boring hills is prepared for market, are now clusteredbeside the cataract, and about them lies the villagecomprising some 1900 inhabitants. Below, the out-let flows through a woody glen to Lake Champlain,so deep and quiet that it is easily navigable by smallsteamers; and then comes the lake, — so narrow andshallow here that the Vermont Central has thrown adraw-bridge across it to connect its system with thatof the Delaware and Hudson, but lengthening itselfout like a ribbon to Whitehall, twenty-two miles might spend days rounding the fir-clad promon-tories or skirting the gently-circling bay shores with-out discovering one half its beauties. The great feature of interest, however, is old FortTiconderoga. As one
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