. Routes and rates for summer tours . From Outing. ADIRONDACK CAMP LIFE. 46 ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. those once untrodden peaks. The genius of change has possession of the land ; we cannotcontrol it. When we study the necessities of our people we would not control it if we could.^This change—ihis new revelation of fresh, exhilarating mountain summer life, is havingtoo important and beneficial an influence upon society at present not to the sympathy ofthe government. To the wealthy dwellers of cities, debilitated by a tainted atmosphere, thebreezes and the mountain sprin
. Routes and rates for summer tours . From Outing. ADIRONDACK CAMP LIFE. 46 ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. those once untrodden peaks. The genius of change has possession of the land ; we cannotcontrol it. When we study the necessities of our people we would not control it if we could.^This change—ihis new revelation of fresh, exhilarating mountain summer life, is havingtoo important and beneficial an influence upon society at present not to the sympathy ofthe government. To the wealthy dwellers of cities, debilitated by a tainted atmosphere, thebreezes and the mountain springs bring life, while the free, joyous exercises of their children inthese summer homes lay for them the foundations of continued health. But while these changes. SALMON FALLS, ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS. have opened to travel many of the most interesting nooks, they have only rendered more markedby contrast the wildness of the remainder, and the unvisited wilderness centres or cores are stillleft in all their sylvan purityo The bear and deer, though somewhat reduced in numbers, stillhaunt these remote places • panthers still roam untrammeled, and the wolf alone, persecuted bytraps and poison, begins to be relatively scarce. Therefore, save to the hermits of the forest,whose semi-savage life cannot always be maintaineds these changes are for the better, and nounselfish person will for a moment regret that his once solitary pleasures are now shared by the FIOME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD, 47 many. The sportsman has still a thousand unfrequented recesses—if he will seek them—wherehe may travel unmolested. Though the waters of the Raquette now flash responsive to the oarsand paddles of ten boats where they once saw but one, and though its
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