. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . its head. Entrance fee, 75 cents. Theboat ride is 50 cents additional, including car-riage back to hotel or station. Large parties areadmitted at reduced rates. Guides are unnecessary, as guide-boards and signs call attention tonotable places. The chasm is something over amile in length from Rainbow Falls to the Basinand upwards of a hundred feet in depth, the enclosing walls at points rising vertically from thewater. Returning to the steamer, we see, three milesnorth of the landing at Port Kent, the sandymouth of the Au Sable river. Au Sab
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . its head. Entrance fee, 75 cents. Theboat ride is 50 cents additional, including car-riage back to hotel or station. Large parties areadmitted at reduced rates. Guides are unnecessary, as guide-boards and signs call attention tonotable places. The chasm is something over amile in length from Rainbow Falls to the Basinand upwards of a hundred feet in depth, the enclosing walls at points rising vertically from thewater. Returning to the steamer, we see, three milesnorth of the landing at Port Kent, the sandymouth of the Au Sable river. Au Sable meansof sand. Across from this point is the widestuninterrupted portion of the lake, the distancebeing nearly eleven miles. Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich, Conn.,January 3d, 1741, and died in London, June 14,1801. As a youth, turbulent; as a soldier, am-bitious and bold to rashness. Jealous of his fel-low officers, the tn niition from discontentedrebel to infamous traitor was easy. A brilliantcommander—his fall was like that of T.« LAKE CHAMPLAIN 159 Hotel Champlain is situated on a lofty bluff onche west shore of Lake Champlain overlooking amighty expanse of water on the east and and west extends a far reaching plain ofcheckered field and forest that vanishes into bluewhere the Adirondacks in a great panorama ofserrated mountain peaks rise beyond. Withno near mountain heights to dwarf its own strongsetting Bluff Point commands scenes wonderfullyvaried, yet restful to a degree that few places canapproach. Valcour Island lies below like a garden border-ed with its varying belt of shrubbery. Beyonddotted here and there with islands, stretches thebroad lake to the shores of Vermont, the GreenMountains beyond rising into the heights of Cam-els Hump and Mount Mansfield. North and eastare Grand Isle and the Great Back Bay; at thenorth, Cumberland Head, the sweeping circle ofPlattsburg Bay, where occurred that splendidnaval battle of 1814—the last, as
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