What to see in America . ut thescheme short. A beloved moderndweller in the Adiron-dackswas the age of twenty-four he discovered thathe had tuberculosis andleft New York City todwell in the he successfullycombated the diseasefor forty years and es-tablished the greatsanitarium at Saranac Lake, whicli has been the model forinnumerable others. His most famous patient was RobertLouis Stevenson, who was in his care during the winter of1887-8. One of the pests that plague the summer campers in thewoods is flies. The season for them opens in mid-Maywith the punkies, which,
What to see in America . ut thescheme short. A beloved moderndweller in the Adiron-dackswas the age of twenty-four he discovered thathe had tuberculosis andleft New York City todwell in the he successfullycombated the diseasefor forty years and es-tablished the greatsanitarium at Saranac Lake, whicli has been the model forinnumerable others. His most famous patient was RobertLouis Stevenson, who was in his care during the winter of1887-8. One of the pests that plague the summer campers in thewoods is flies. The season for them opens in mid-Maywith the punkies, which, though only of pin-point size, arecapable of being superlatively irritable. The black flyappears in early June. Soon afterward mosquitoes begin tobe troublesome, and they are no observers of hours, but areready for business day and night. All these pests can tosome degree be circumvented by the use of mosquito netting,smudges, and lotions. Few of them survive beyond the endof summer. An Adirondack Trail New York State 95. Buttermilk Falls near Long Lake The Adiron-dacks have manygood motor roads,and the labyrin-thine lakes andstreams furnishtwo canoe routes,each more thanone hundred mileslong. Ten of themountains areover 4000 feethigh and the noblest of them all, Mt. Marcy, attains analtitude of 5344 feet. Well up toward this mountains sum-mit is Lake Tear of the Clouds, which is the source of theHudson. The lake is eighty yards long by about thirtywide. It is very shallow, with a bottom of soft black mudthat makes its clear water look like ink. The Indian namefor Mt. Marcy was Jahawnus, that is, the Cloud-Piercer. An old place south of the Adirondacks of exceptionalhistoric interest is Schenectady, which suffered severely atthe hands of the French and Indians raiding from Canada in 1690. It was thena palisaded Dutch vil-lage on the remotestfrontier of the colony.:^ The attack was made toward midnight ofFebruary 8 in a coldgusty persons werekilled, twenty-sevenc
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