. Routes and rates for summer tours ... 1888 . the hounds, seeka false safety in its waters, and to my own knowledge (the summer song and camp-fire long de-parted), in mid-winter the wolf does not disdain to travel on its ice. Though a wee steamer nowplows the water of the Saranac, the huge lake trout—salmonidtc—still leap at evening from thesurface ; deer still drink at its shores, and once, not very long ago, the little steamer had its firstadventure chasing a party of four bears that were swimming in the lake. 38 ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. The recrionis already the summer home
. Routes and rates for summer tours ... 1888 . the hounds, seeka false safety in its waters, and to my own knowledge (the summer song and camp-fire long de-parted), in mid-winter the wolf does not disdain to travel on its ice. Though a wee steamer nowplows the water of the Saranac, the huge lake trout—salmonidtc—still leap at evening from thesurface ; deer still drink at its shores, and once, not very long ago, the little steamer had its firstadventure chasing a party of four bears that were swimming in the lake. 38 ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. The recrionis already the summer home of untold thousands—a public pleasure ground—awilderness park to all intents and purposes, safe from human savages, and without a harmfulserpent within its borders. Already private clubs have separated large areas. The moose {Alee Americanus, Jardine),by imoortation from Maine and Nova Scotia, have been restored to the grounds of the Adiron-dack Club near Lake Santford, and the lakes restocked with choicest fish. So elsewhere in the. MON IALLS, ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS forest the task of preservation is beginning, and only the luckless bears, wolves and panthers,etc., hiding from the uproar of invading civilization, find themselves without protection. Aregion of mystery, over which none can gaze without a strange thrill of interest and of wonderat what may be hidden in that vast area of forest, covers all things with its deep repose. Itis not the deer of which we think, treading the deep, rich moss among the stately tamaracks; northe bear, luxuriating in the berry patches on the mountain side ; nor the panther, nor the wolf,in their lonely and desolate wilds seeking their feast of blood. We gaze downward from the ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. 89 mountain height on thousands upon thousands of square miles of wilderness, which was alwaysone—since forest it became—and which hides to-day, as it has hidden for so many ages, thesecrets of form, and soil, and rock,
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