. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . are inthose days left none to tell the tale. Northof Hogs Back stretches Spruce Mountain— bold and precipitous. Bluff Head is the longpoint extending out from the east shore. Thelate Rev. A. D. Gillette, D. D., for many years pas-tor of Calvary Church, New York, made this hissummer home. His widow and sons, Dr. WalterR. and Daniel G. Gillette, have cottages here now From Huletts Landing we run diagonally acrossthe lake to Sabbath Day Point, about two milesdistant. As we draw near to the point glancebackward toward Black Mountain
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . are inthose days left none to tell the tale. Northof Hogs Back stretches Spruce Mountain— bold and precipitous. Bluff Head is the longpoint extending out from the east shore. Thelate Rev. A. D. Gillette, D. D., for many years pas-tor of Calvary Church, New York, made this hissummer home. His widow and sons, Dr. WalterR. and Daniel G. Gillette, have cottages here now From Huletts Landing we run diagonally acrossthe lake to Sabbath Day Point, about two milesdistant. As we draw near to the point glancebackward toward Black Mountain and note howthe old giant asserts his supremacy, rising up tcovertop his less stately supporters. A little furtheialong and he is again the stately center of the picture. The Elephant stands back there at the northend of Black Mountain. Note his well formed headtoward the west; his eye; the rift that marks theoutline of his massive jaw; the wrinkled necfeand great rounded back with scattered bristlesof dead pines clearly defined against the sky be. MAP OF LAKE No. 3. LAKE GEORGE 95 yond. Sugar Loaf Mountain is over at the left ofthe Elephant. Its summit, viewed from a littledistance north of Sabbath Day Point, looks verylike a pig lying down, with his sharp nose point-ing east. These animals were undoubtedly of thelot created in the beginning. Twin Mountainsare seen in the southwest from Sabbath DayPoint. The southernmost one is the DeersLeap, the other known locally as Bloomer Moun-tain. Sabbath Day Point (west, about 19 1-2 milesfrom Caldwell) has been the scene of many stir-ring incidents in the history of Lake George. Itcommands the approach by water on either hand,and would naturally be selected for a campingplace by parties who might have reason to ex-pect the advance of an enemy. Here, in 1756, a bodyof provincials, under Putnam and Rogers repulseda superior force of French and Indians. On the5th of July, 1758, Abercombrie, with his splendidlyequipped ar
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