. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . Rainy days—they do some-times come even here—the youngsters get an in-sight into the woodsmans ways of doing thingsin the workshop, or delve into the boys storybooks, with which the library is supplied. Theparty is made up of boys from good homes, anddraws from New York city, and also many dis-tant points. A convincing kittle book, written bythe leader, explains the scope of the camp andgives interesting particulars, for which, duringsummer, address Dr. Elias G. Brown at Glen-burnie, N. Y., or in winter at The MountainSchool, Allaben, N. Y.
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . Rainy days—they do some-times come even here—the youngsters get an in-sight into the woodsmans ways of doing thingsin the workshop, or delve into the boys storybooks, with which the library is supplied. Theparty is made up of boys from good homes, anddraws from New York city, and also many dis-tant points. A convincing kittle book, written bythe leader, explains the scope of the camp andgives interesting particulars, for which, duringsummer, address Dr. Elias G. Brown at Glen-burnie, N. Y., or in winter at The MountainSchool, Allaben, N. No59 extejids west along the north side 112 LAKE GEORGE of Glenbiirnie. It is heavily wooded, excepting inspots where a cliff is presented or where its west-ern point rounds over sharply into the lake. Froma position well back on the south side of BlairsBay can be seen a perfect face in profile, withsmooth brow, Roman nose, firm lips and beardedchin looking out toward the west from the perpen-dicular wall at the second mountain step. In. NORTH FROM WALTONIAN ISLE. Rogers RockMt.; 2 Friends Point; 3 Anthonys NoseMt. passing we run close to the point of the mountain,so near at times that a stone could be easily tossedagainst its iron-stained sides. Rogers Slide is toward the west, a mountainnearly a thousand feet high, with smoothly roundedtop and precipitous sides. Nearly half of its entireheight is a smooth wall of rock descending at asharp angle to the waters edge. It is rich in min-erals. Graphite or black lead exists here in considerable LAKE GEORGE. quantities, and many beautiful specimens of garnethave been found along its sides and summit. Thestory of its name is as follows: In the winter of1757-8. Robert Rogers, with a small party of hisRangers, was sent to make observations at Ticon-deroga and Crown Point. Near the outlet of the lakehe fell in with a party of the enemy, and in the skir-mish which ensued became separated from the rest ofhis party. Pursued by
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