. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . etween a rock standingon the east shore of one of the islands anC ctn old wo-man. 4 The name is a beautiful tribute to the memoryof the old lady any way, while the classic eleganceand appropriateness of the term only fell short of ab-solute inspiration in that it was not advanced a stepfarther to • Grandmother Bunch, and done with Gives Rock is a solid wall, breaking off per-pendicularlv Irom the mountain slope on the^riffht, at 1 LAKE GEORGE. the north end of Mother Bunch group. Water constantly drips over its face, and cives (a sp
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . etween a rock standingon the east shore of one of the islands anC ctn old wo-man. 4 The name is a beautiful tribute to the memoryof the old lady any way, while the classic eleganceand appropriateness of the term only fell short of ab-solute inspiration in that it was not advanced a stepfarther to • Grandmother Bunch, and done with Gives Rock is a solid wall, breaking off per-pendicularlv Irom the mountain slope on the^riffht, at 1 LAKE GEORGE. the north end of Mother Bunch group. Water constantly drips over its face, and cives (a species of garii-growing in tufts), spring spontaneously from its fissures. The largest boats can be laid up along side ofthis rock in still weather. Tlie Harbor Islands are near the center of thelake, the west channel passing close by their westernborder. They are owned by the Paulists, who re-ceived a title to them from the State in 1872, and whooccupy them occasionally as a camping place. Thegroup is the first of any considerable size on the west. I 2 3 SOUTH FROM SABBATH DAY POINT. I Black Mountain ; j Deers Leap. side, north of the Narrows, and was once the scene ofone of the bloodiest cngagemenis in the history of thelake. On the 25th of July, 1757, a party of betweenthree and four hundred English, commanded by Parker, left Fort William Henry, and undercover of the darkness proceeded down the lake on ascout. When near this place, at dawn of the nextmorning, dark objects shot out from among the isl-ands to meet them, while the savage war-whoopsounded on all sides. As the yelling horde advancedthe English became panic-stricken and sought safety LAKE GEORGE. in flight, but their clumsy l^arges were no match forthe light canoes of the enemy. Some threw them-selves into the lake and succeeded in reaching theshore and were there pursued and struck down by thesavages. * )ue hundred and thirty-one English werekilled outright, twelve escaped, and the rest weretaken prison
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