. The story of Cooperstown . alue was were other tragedies of this sort, yet foryears afterward, while some continued to growhops at a fair profit, many a farmer in the vicinityof Cooperstown, lured by the hope of a doUar-a-pound season, was kept on the verge of povertyby his faith in the golden vine. Otsego Lake is chiefly famous as the scene ofevents in two of Coopers Leather-Stocking are glimpses of it in The Pioneers, while inThe Deerslayer the whole action revolves aboutthis lake, which throughout the story is called theGlimmerglass. The scenes of incidents in these
. The story of Cooperstown . alue was were other tragedies of this sort, yet foryears afterward, while some continued to growhops at a fair profit, many a farmer in the vicinityof Cooperstown, lured by the hope of a doUar-a-pound season, was kept on the verge of povertyby his faith in the golden vine. Otsego Lake is chiefly famous as the scene ofevents in two of Coopers Leather-Stocking are glimpses of it in The Pioneers, while inThe Deerslayer the whole action revolves aboutthis lake, which throughout the story is called theGlimmerglass. The scenes of incidents in thesetwo tales are still pointed out on Otsego Lake,and have become as much a part of its history asof its romance. G. P. Keese, Harpers Magazine, October, 1885. THE LAKE OF ROMANCE AND FISHERMEN 383 To begin with points described in The Deer-slayer, the beehive-shaped rock where the youth-ful Leather-Stocking had his rendezvous withChingachgook is that now known as Council Rock,and still juts above the water at the outlet of the. The Susquehanna, near its source lake, near the western shore of the Susquehannassource. Here it was that exactly at sunset, tokeep his appointment with Leather-Stocking, thetall, handsome, and athletic young DelawareIndian suddenly appeared in full war-paint, stand-ing upon the rock, having escaped his lurking far from this point, at a short distance downthe river, Deerslayer got his first glimpse of thebeautiful Judith Hutter, as she peered from the 384 THE STORY OF COOPEESTOWN window of the ark, which had been mooredbeneath the screening foliage of overhangingtrees. It was through these waters, and throughthe outlet, soon afterward, that Floating TomHutter and Hurry Harry, aided by Deerslayer,drew the ark back into the lake in the nick of timeto escape a band of hostile Iroquois. On the western side of the lake, just beyondthe 0-te-sa-ga as one travels northward, the firstlittle bay that indents the shore, now called Black-bird Bay, and somewha
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