. The story of Cooperstown . Five-Mile Point speed to try a plunge for the lake, with the wholeband of Indians in pursuit. In the open area of Five-Mile Point, after hisrecapture, Deerslayer was bound to a tree, andbecame a target for the hairbreadth marksman-ship of Huron tomahawks, preliminary to beingput to torture. North of this spot, and along the shore, Hut- THE LAKE OF ROMANCE AND FISHERMEN 389 ters Point is of interest to the reader of theLeather-Stocking Tales, for here is the path bywhich Deerslayer reached the lake at the begin-ning of his romantic history, and gained his firstview
. The story of Cooperstown . Five-Mile Point speed to try a plunge for the lake, with the wholeband of Indians in pursuit. In the open area of Five-Mile Point, after hisrecapture, Deerslayer was bound to a tree, andbecame a target for the hairbreadth marksman-ship of Huron tomahawks, preliminary to beingput to torture. North of this spot, and along the shore, Hut- THE LAKE OF ROMANCE AND FISHERMEN 389 ters Point is of interest to the reader of theLeather-Stocking Tales, for here is the path bywhich Deerslayer reached the lake at the begin-ning of his romantic history, and gained his firstview of the Glimmerglass. In the second chapter. M. Antoinette Abrams Mohican Canyon of the Deerslayer, Coopers famous descriptionof the lake as it was when the first white mancame, based upon his own recollection of it whennine-tenths of its shores were in virgin forest, wasconceived from the angle of Hutters Point. Not far from the northern end of the lake afaint discoloration of the water, with a few reedsprojecting above the surface, reveals the locationof the so-called sunken island, where the waters 390 THE STORY OF COOPERSTOWN of the lake shoal from a great depth, and offerthe site upon which, at the southern end of theshoal. Coopers imagination built the MuskratCastle of Tom Hutter, at which the terrific strug-gle with the Indians occurred when Hutter waskilled. At the northern end of the sunken islandwas the watery grave in which the mother ofJudith and Hetty lay, and which afterward be-came the grave of Hutter, and finally of Hettyherself/ Across the lake, on its eastern shore, south ofHyde Bay, is Gravelly Point, to which
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