The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . rty or forty people,in the school-house on our guides farm. In the afternoon we attendeda prayer-meeting at the same place; and early the next morning, whilea storm of wind and heavy mist was sweeping over the country, startedwith our two guides, in a lumber waggon, for the Adirondack now left our boats, in which and on foot we had travelled, from the THE HUDSON. 23 lower Saranac to Harriss Lake, more than seventy miles. It was atedious journey of twenty-six miles, most of the way over a corduroyroad—a causeway of logs. On the way we pa
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . rty or forty people,in the school-house on our guides farm. In the afternoon we attendeda prayer-meeting at the same place; and early the next morning, whilea storm of wind and heavy mist was sweeping over the country, startedwith our two guides, in a lumber waggon, for the Adirondack now left our boats, in which and on foot we had travelled, from the THE HUDSON. 23 lower Saranac to Harriss Lake, more than seventy miles. It was atedious journey of twenty-six miles, most of the way over a corduroyroad—a causeway of logs. On the way we passed the confluence of LakeDelia with the Adirondack branch of the Hudson, reached MIntyres Inn(Tahawus House, at the foot of Sandford Lake) toward noon, and at twooclock were at the little deserted village at the Adirondack Iron Works,between Sandford and Henderson Lakes. We passed near the margin ofthe former a large portion of the way. It is a beautiful body of water,nine miles long, with several little islands. From the road along its. INDFORD LAKE. shores we had a fine view of the three great mountain peaks justmentioned, and of the Wall-face Mountain at the Indian Pass. At thehouse of Mr. Hunter, the only inhabitant of the deserted village, wedined, and then prepared to ascend the Great Tahawus, or Sky-piercer. The little deserted village of Adirondack, or MIntyre, nestled in arocky valley upon the Upper Hudson, at the foot of the principal moun-tain barrier which rises between its sources and those of the Au Sable,and in the bosom of an almost unbroken forest, appeared cheerful to usweary wanderers, although smoke was to be seen from only a solitary 24 THE HUDSON. chimney. The hamlet—consisting of sixteen dwelling-houses, furnaces,and other edifices, and a building with a cupola, used for a school andpublic worship—was the offspring of enterprise and capital, which manyyears before had combined to develop the mineral wealth of that wealth was still ther
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