What to see in America . Albany prom the East Side of the Hudson the finny folk many fathoms below the surface. At theNarrows is Shelving Rock, with its palisades and dens ofrattlesnakes. Here the water reaches a depth of four hundredfeet. One of the islands is an odd little nautical eccentricity New York State 89 that mimics a ship in its verdure, and so is called Ship discoverer of the lake was a French Jesuit, FatherJogues, who passed through it while going on a mission fromCanada to the Mohawks in 1646. He was kindlv received r. mk^. Falls of the Mohawk at Cohoes by the tribe at
What to see in America . Albany prom the East Side of the Hudson the finny folk many fathoms below the surface. At theNarrows is Shelving Rock, with its palisades and dens ofrattlesnakes. Here the water reaches a depth of four hundredfeet. One of the islands is an odd little nautical eccentricity New York State 89 that mimics a ship in its verdure, and so is called Ship discoverer of the lake was a French Jesuit, FatherJogues, who passed through it while going on a mission fromCanada to the Mohawks in 1646. He was kindlv received r. mk^. Falls of the Mohawk at Cohoes by the tribe at first, but afterward was accused of being asorcerer and inflicting on the Indians a scourge of cater-pillars. One evening, as he was stooping to enter a lodge,an Indian following behind, armed with a hatchet, struckhim lifeless. His head was fixed on a palisade, and hisbody was thrown into the Mohawk River. At Auriesvillea chapel has been erected on the site of his martyrdom. In the four miles that the water of Lake George travelsto Lake Champlain it descends two hundred and thirty feetand forms two series of cascades. The latter lake bears thename of its first explorer, who came from Quebec by waterin 1609 and entered the lake from the north with two whitecompanions and sixty Indian warriors in twenty-four canoes. 90 What to See in America
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