What to see in America . ke The Adiron-dacks have manygood motor roads,and the labyrin-thine lakes andstreams furnishtwo canoe routes,each more thanone hundred mileslong. Ten of themountains areover 4000 feethigh and the noblest of them all, Mt. Marcy, attains analtitude of 5344 feet. Well up toward this mountains sum-mit is Lake Tear of the Clouds, which is the source of theHudson. The lake is eighty yards long by about thirtywide. It is very shallow, with a bottom of soft black mudthat makes its clear water look like ink. The Indian namefor Mt. Marcy was Jahawnus, that is, the Cloud-Piercer.
What to see in America . ke The Adiron-dacks have manygood motor roads,and the labyrin-thine lakes andstreams furnishtwo canoe routes,each more thanone hundred mileslong. Ten of themountains areover 4000 feethigh and the noblest of them all, Mt. Marcy, attains analtitude of 5344 feet. Well up toward this mountains sum-mit is Lake Tear of the Clouds, which is the source of theHudson. The lake is eighty yards long by about thirtywide. It is very shallow, with a bottom of soft black mudthat makes its clear water look like ink. The Indian namefor Mt. Marcy was Jahawnus, that is, the Cloud-Piercer. An old place south of the Adirondacks of exceptionalhistoric interest is Schenectady, which suffered severely atthe hands of the French and Indians raiding from Canada in 1690. It was thena palisaded Dutch vil-lage on the remotestfrontier of the colony.:^ The attack was made toward midnight ofFebruary 8 in a coldgusty persons werekilled, twenty-sevencarried away captives,Racquette Lake and all but half a. 96 What to See in America dozen of the houses burned. The surviving inhabitants,who numbered about two hundred and fifty, buried theirdead, including their pastor, made what provision they couldagainst the severity of the winter, and began the work ofreconstruction. About fifty miles farther west is the sum-mer resort of Cherry Valley which sufl^ered in a similar wayin 1778. All its people were either massacred or takenprisoners. One of the most picturesque of colonial characters was SirWilliam Johnson. At Johnstown, about 50 miles northwest of Albany, hebuilt JohnsonsHall, as hecalled it, andthere lived in ba-ronial style, ex-ercising greathospitality. Hewas intimatewith the Indians,spoke their lan-guage, and at times put on their dress and their paint, andwhooped, yelped, and stamped like one of them. The Mo-hawks adopted him into their tribe and made him a chief,and he married a squaw. His mansion still stands. At the southern end of Otsego Lake is Cooperst
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