What to see in America . Summer in the Catskills The most notedplace in the regionto the north is Sara-toga, the pecuharvirtues of whosesprings were wellknown among theIndians long beforethe white men cameto America. Thefirst hotel was builtthere in 1771, when the surroundings included sixteenIndian cabins in plain sight. Wolves howled and panthersscreamed by night, and the vicinity was frequented byblack bears, deer, and moose. Yet Saratoga Springs pres-ently became one of the greatest of the worlds wateringplaces, with all the charm that wealth and fashion couldconfer. One of the pop-ular ex
What to see in America . Summer in the Catskills The most notedplace in the regionto the north is Sara-toga, the pecuharvirtues of whosesprings were wellknown among theIndians long beforethe white men cameto America. Thefirst hotel was builtthere in 1771, when the surroundings included sixteenIndian cabins in plain sight. Wolves howled and panthersscreamed by night, and the vicinity was frequented byblack bears, deer, and moose. Yet Saratoga Springs pres-ently became one of the greatest of the worlds wateringplaces, with all the charm that wealth and fashion couldconfer. One of the pop-ular excursions in theregion is ten miles tothe cottage at the sum-mit of ]\It. McGregor inwhich Gen. Grant diedin 1885. The Battle ofSaratoga, in the autumnof 1777, which led to thesurrender of Burgoyne,was fought twelve milesto the east near theHudson. Farther up the river isGlens Falls, of interest tothe stranger because arocky islet, in the middle Winter in the catskills. 88 What to See in America of the river, right where the stream begins its chaotic tumbleof seventy-two feet down the ledges, was the scene of some ofthe most thrilling incidents in J. Fenimore Coopers TheLast of the Mohicans. We are now near Lake George, thirty-three miles long, andfor the most part two or three broad. It has two hundredand twenty islands, and many a wooded guardian heightrises from its borders. At the southern end the old embank-ments of Fort William Henry can still be traced, and othercolonial forts in the region survive in similar half-effacedhillocks. There was fighting around Lake George for years,in which French, English, and Indians all took part, andmany were the wild and savage deeds done. The water issurprisingly translucent, and you can watch the gambols of
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