. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . MAP OF LAKE GEORGE. Section No. I. LAKE GEORGE 61 volcano, with the rim broken away on the eastside, forming a beautiful harbor in says Abercrombe buried gold and valuables here. A little further north where the road runs wellup the side of the rising ground at the west is thesummer home of George Foster Peabody, philan-thropist of national fame. St. Marys of the Lake, on the east side, is thesummer place of the Paulist Fathers, who alsoown Harbor Islands, camping there occasionallyin the summer time. Plum Point, a half-m
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . MAP OF LAKE GEORGE. Section No. I. LAKE GEORGE 61 volcano, with the rim broken away on the eastside, forming a beautiful harbor in says Abercrombe buried gold and valuables here. A little further north where the road runs wellup the side of the rising ground at the west is thesummer home of George Foster Peabody, philan-thropist of national fame. St. Marys of the Lake, on the east side, is thesummer place of the Paulist Fathers, who alsoown Harbor Islands, camping there occasionallyin the summer time. Plum Point, a half-mile north of the St. Marysreceived its name, it is said, because of the large. 12 3 4 5 APPROACHING DIAMON ^LAND LOOKING NORTH. I Diamond Island; 2 Tongue Mt. Sanford Islands, 4 Assembly Pt ;S Buck Mountam. quantities of plums once raised here. The cas-ual observer will see no plums, and may not seethe point. Dunhams Bay opens up on the its head is Lake George Park. Diamond Island, near the centre of the lake,three miles from its head, was so named becauseof the fine quartz crystals once found here in con-siderable quantities. It was fortified and used n2 LAKE GEORGE as a military depot by Burgoyne after his cap-ture of Ticonderoga in 1777, and the same yearwas the scene of an engagement between theEnglish then in possession and a party of Amer-icans under Coi. John Brown, resulting in the de-feat of the latter. Cramers Point (west side two and three-fourthsmiles) was an island when the islands all be-longed to the state, but it is said that a formerowner of (he adjoining shore looked upon it withlonging eyes, and one night the kind waves, orsomething e
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