. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . tory and traditions of main points of special service A. E. Reynolds, GeneralManager, may be addressed at Glens Falls. The Ruins of Fort Gage are about one milesouth of Fort William Henry, where the trolleycuts through the big hill. The lines of earth-works may still be traced through the pines thatnow cover them. Bloody Pond is a mile farther south at the right—a stagnant pool which in the spring is nearly cov-ered with lily-pads and great white pond lilies, andIn the summer becomes almost dry. It is told that 9 LAKE OEORGE. p
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . tory and traditions of main points of special service A. E. Reynolds, GeneralManager, may be addressed at Glens Falls. The Ruins of Fort Gage are about one milesouth of Fort William Henry, where the trolleycuts through the big hill. The lines of earth-works may still be traced through the pines thatnow cover them. Bloody Pond is a mile farther south at the right—a stagnant pool which in the spring is nearly cov-ered with lily-pads and great white pond lilies, andIn the summer becomes almost dry. It is told that 9 LAKE OEORGE. party of the French (after driving the English intotheir fortified camp at Lake George, and being drivenback in turn, in the engagement in which Wilhamsand King Hendrick were killed) were seated aroundthe pond partaking of their evening meal. Unsus-picious of danger from the south they were surprisedby a party of English advancing from Fort Edward,who poured in upon them a destructive fire. Totallyrouted, the French fled in confusion, leaving their. BLOODY POND. dead and wounded on the field. The dead werethrown into the pond by t^.e Fiiglsh, and the waterturned red wiih tluir ], from \> hich circumstanceit received its n:i:;Te. *• Williams Monument isabout three C)f ttie ]al<e, aiul west of It is a plam ^^n^ ble shaft, blue and white,standing on a huge bowlder, which is iu-^clf inclosedwithin an iron fence. It was erected in iS54ly thegraduates of ^Yiiliams College, in memory of thef under of that instiiution. On it are inscriptions .alin. to show the learning of those who erectedit, a-i iii Imdish, telling what it is all about. Fromit V o learn that it was ■■ Erected to the memory ofColonel Ephraim Williams, a native of JMewtoivn LAKE GEeiKCE who, after gallantly dcfeitdmg the frojitierof his native State, served under General JoJuisonagainst the Fre7ich and Jndiajis,and nobly fell near this spot, inthe bloody C07iflict of
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