The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . y30lbs. or 40lbs. of sugar. Some settlers manufacture a considerable quantity of sugar every year, asmuch as from 300lbs. tj (500lbs. THE HUDSON. 29 pot, tin plates and cups, knives, forks, and spoons. These, with shawlsor overcoats, and india-rubber capes to keep off the rain, the guides willcarry, with gun, axe, and fishing-tackle. Sportsmen Avho expect to campout some time, should take with them a light tent. The guides will fish,hunt, Avork, build camps, and do all other necessary service, for amoderate compensation and their food. It is proper
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . y30lbs. or 40lbs. of sugar. Some settlers manufacture a considerable quantity of sugar every year, asmuch as from 300lbs. tj (500lbs. THE HUDSON. 29 pot, tin plates and cups, knives, forks, and spoons. These, with shawlsor overcoats, and india-rubber capes to keep off the rain, the guides willcarry, with gun, axe, and fishing-tackle. Sportsmen Avho expect to campout some time, should take with them a light tent. The guides will fish,hunt, Avork, build camps, and do all other necessary service, for amoderate compensation and their food. It is proper here to remark thatthe tourist should never enter this wilderness .earlier than the middle ofAugust. Then the files and mosquitoes, the intolerable pests of theforests, are rapidly disappearing, and fine weather may be expected. Thesportsman must go in June or July for trout, and in October for deer. Well prepared with all necessaries excepting flannel over-shirts, we setout from Adirondack on the afternoon of the oOth of August, our guides. riBST BEIDGE OVEK THE HUDSON. with their packs leading the way. The morning had been misty, but theatmosphere was then clear and cool. We crossed the Hudson three-fourthsof a mile below Henderson Lake, upon a rude bridge, made our waythrough a clearing tangled with tall raspberry shrubs full of fruit, fornearly half a mile, and then entered the deep and solemn forest, composedof birch, maple, cedar, hemlock, spruce, and tall pine trees. Our waywas over a level for three-fourths of a mile, to the outlet of CalamityPond. AVe crossed it at a beautiful cascade, and then commenced ascend- 30 THE HUDSON. ing by a sinuous mountain putli, across which many a huge tree had beencast by the wind. It was a weary journey of almost four miles (notwith-standing it lay along the track of a lane cut through the forest a fewyears ago for a special purpose, of which we shall presently speak), for inmany places the soil was hidden by boulders covered with thic
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