. Ticonderoga: past and present. "Mixed." A companion to "Lake George, illustrated.". Affliction 21 A Blissful Future Foreshadowed 22 Discoveries : A Retrospect 23 Adam 23 Noah 23 The Magi 24 The Northmen 24 Chris 24 Other Discoverers 25 The Pocahontas-Smith Affair 26 iv Contents. Discoveries — (Concluded): Page. Puritans Discovered 27 Henry Hudson 28 Samuel Champlain 29 Early Battle — 1609 30 Carillon 34 Fort Ticonderoga 34 Meaning of the Name 35 History previous to the Revolution 35 The Green Mountain Boys 37 Ethan Allen 38 Allens Narrative .• 39 Capture of Ticonderoga by Allen 41 Mount Defi
. Ticonderoga: past and present. "Mixed." A companion to "Lake George, illustrated.". Affliction 21 A Blissful Future Foreshadowed 22 Discoveries : A Retrospect 23 Adam 23 Noah 23 The Magi 24 The Northmen 24 Chris 24 Other Discoverers 25 The Pocahontas-Smith Affair 26 iv Contents. Discoveries — (Concluded): Page. Puritans Discovered 27 Henry Hudson 28 Samuel Champlain 29 Early Battle — 1609 30 Carillon 34 Fort Ticonderoga 34 Meaning of the Name 35 History previous to the Revolution 35 The Green Mountain Boys 37 Ethan Allen 38 Allens Narrative .• 39 Capture of Ticonderoga by Allen 41 Mount Defiance 46 Capture of Ticonderoga by Burgoyne 47 Peace 49 Fort Ticonderoga Hotel 50 Map of the Ruins, 1873 51 Present State of the Ruins 52 The old Fort Well 52 The old Soldier 52 The Covered Way 53 The Barracks 53 A Difference of Opinion 54 Grenadier Battery 55 Mount Independence 55 The Underground Rooms 56 Outer Defenses 58 A Picture 59 The Parade 62 The Sally Port 62 A Tradition 63 Tremble Meadow 64 Good Night 65 Contents of Lake George. Illustrated 67 TICONDEROGA ANDERERS still, we have threadedthe silvery pathway of the Horican,and are drifting idly toward the grayold ruins of the forest stronghold,venerable in its departed grandeur,crowned with the wild legends andhistorical associations that cluster around itscrumbling battlements and telling its story of lovesand hates, of hopes and fears, of the glitteringpomps of warfare, of booming cannon and the roll-ing drum, of glad pasans of victory, the solemn dirge,of death. Of earthly plans, of ambitions wild, of thearrogant assumption of puny man, and the love offorgiving Nature, who tenderly covers over the scarsand hides the ruined hopes under a mantle of livinggreen. The trip overland from Lake George to LakeChamplain cannot, strictly speaking, be called agreen spot in the memory, for my recollection ofthe place is that it almost always rains, or has justbeen doing so, in which case the spots are a decided 6
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