. The Catskills . MOUNT ASHOKAN AND RESERVOIR 269 The remark crystallized what I had been think-ing. The lake was so beautiful, fitted so well intoborder-land of mountain and plain, that it did notlook raw and new. To tell the geologic truth, ithad been on the original plan of the globe. Thesurveyors found evidences of a pre-glacial they did was to put it back. This they didsupremely well by damming the Esopus where theice-sheet had worn down the embankment and letthe water out. The story of the gigantic work is unfortunatelysubmerged in the other stories of our incredibleyoung centur
. The Catskills . MOUNT ASHOKAN AND RESERVOIR 269 The remark crystallized what I had been think-ing. The lake was so beautiful, fitted so well intoborder-land of mountain and plain, that it did notlook raw and new. To tell the geologic truth, ithad been on the original plan of the globe. Thesurveyors found evidences of a pre-glacial they did was to put it back. This they didsupremely well by damming the Esopus where theice-sheet had worn down the embankment and letthe water out. The story of the gigantic work is unfortunatelysubmerged in the other stories of our incredibleyoung century. It has been fascinatingly told byDr. Edward Hagaman Hall in a work entitled**The Catskill Aqueduct, which he modestly callsa pamphlet, but which is a novelette for tells how drought came to New York; how thesupply of water, even when rationed out, fell un-til there was enough for but four more days; andhow the great city, on its islands and fringes ofthe continent, was in a panic. Far-seeing men cle
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