. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . lide is toward the west, a mountainnearly a thousand feet high, with smoothly roundedtop and precipitous sides. Nearly half of its entireheight is a smooth wall of rock descending at asharp angle to the waters edge. It is rich in min-erals. Graphite or black lead exists here in considerable LAKE GEORGE. quantities, and many beautiful specimens of garnethave been found along its sides and summit. Thestory of its name is as follows: In the winter of1757-8. Robert Rogers, with a small party of hisRangers, was sent to make observations at Ticon
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . lide is toward the west, a mountainnearly a thousand feet high, with smoothly roundedtop and precipitous sides. Nearly half of its entireheight is a smooth wall of rock descending at asharp angle to the waters edge. It is rich in min-erals. Graphite or black lead exists here in considerable LAKE GEORGE. quantities, and many beautiful specimens of garnethave been found along its sides and summit. Thestory of its name is as follows: In the winter of1757-8. Robert Rogers, with a small party of hisRangers, was sent to make observations at Ticon-deroga and Crown Point. Near the outlet of the lakehe fell in with a party of the enemy, and in the skir-mish which ensued became separated from the rest ofhis party. Pursued by the savages he made for of what was then called Bald Mountain,possibly with the object of putting in practice theruse which his dare-devil nature may have at the brow of the precipice, he threw hisknapsack down over the cliff, and loosening the. ROGERS SLIDE. thongs that bound his feet to his snow-shoes, withoutmoving the latter, turned about face and laced them onhis feet the reverse of the way they were made to beworn, and on them made tracks down a ravine atthe south-west to the lake, thence to the foot of theSlide, where he regained his luggage and proceededon his way. The Indians following to the edge of the
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