Forest leaves . Ralph Waldo Emerson. They lived, as Emerson wrote: Lords of this realmBounded by dawn and sunset, and each dayRounded by hours where each outdid the last. In miracles of pomp, we must be proud,As if associates of the sylvan seemed the dwellers of the zodiac,So pure the Alpine element we breathed,So light, so lofty pictures came and went. FOREST LEAVES. 7 Adirondack camping, after two years experiences, so charmed the Phil-osophers that a permanent organization wa^ projected. In the fall of1858 the Adirondack Club was formed in Boston, where, to quote Emer-son again: We
Forest leaves . Ralph Waldo Emerson. They lived, as Emerson wrote: Lords of this realmBounded by dawn and sunset, and each dayRounded by hours where each outdid the last. In miracles of pomp, we must be proud,As if associates of the sylvan seemed the dwellers of the zodiac,So pure the Alpine element we breathed,So light, so lofty pictures came and went. FOREST LEAVES. 7 Adirondack camping, after two years experiences, so charmed the Phil-osophers that a permanent organization wa^ projected. In the fall of1858 the Adirondack Club was formed in Boston, where, to quote Emer-son again: We planned That we should build, hard by, a spacious lodge, And how we should hither with our sons Hereafter. Professor I,ouis Agassiz. Thus, in the fall of 1858, at Cambridge, the Adirondack Club was formed,and early in the following winter Stillman went to Martins, on theLower Saranac Lake, to purchase a tract of land on which to erect alodge. A paragraph in his autobiography tells of his success in securinga valuable property at what is probably the low-water mark in prices ofAdirondack real estate. The next day I had all the guides of the neigh-borhood in for consultation as to a certain tract which 1 had fixed on from - FOREST LEAVES, report and general knowledge of the region, and we planned a survey inthe snow. It was fourteen miles from any house to lake I had fixed on,—that known as tne Ampersand Pond; but, fortunately, there were amongstthe guides called in some who had been assistants in the official survey,and, with their practical knowledge and memory of the lines, I wasenabled, without leaving the inn, to draw a map of the section of a town-ship which included the lake, and de
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