What to see in America . Long be-fore the last wolf per-ished, the beaver, whichhad been abundant, wereextinct; but beaver thatwere released in 1905 andprotected have multiplieduntil now they are sonumerous as to be a pestin some sections throughtheir propensity for flood-ing the country with theirdams. In the year that Na-poleon suffered disasterat Waterloo, his brother,Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, bought 118,000 acres inthe Adirondacks around Diana, a name which he built a hunting lodge on the shore of the lake that nowbears his name, put up a summer house at Alpena, and an-o
What to see in America . Long be-fore the last wolf per-ished, the beaver, whichhad been abundant, wereextinct; but beaver thatwere released in 1905 andprotected have multiplieduntil now they are sonumerous as to be a pestin some sections throughtheir propensity for flood-ing the country with theirdams. In the year that Na-poleon suffered disasterat Waterloo, his brother,Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, bought 118,000 acres inthe Adirondacks around Diana, a name which he built a hunting lodge on the shore of the lake that nowbears his name, put up a summer house at Alpena, and an-other with bullet-proof rooms at Natural Bridge on theIndian River, where it can still be seen. In 1857 John Brown bought a piece of improved land atNorth Elba. There he made a home for himself and hisfamily, and there his body lies a-moldering in the other spots with famous associations are FollensbyPond and Ampersand Pond, beside each of which a groupof Cambridge friends, Emerson, Lowell, Agassiz, and Still-. Ampersand Pond and Mt. Seward 94 What to See in America ^:Sy R mm. f Wi man, spent a bought 22,500acres for $600 and in-tended to philosophizethere for their remain-ing summers, but theCivil War cut thescheme short. A beloved moderndweller in the Adiron-dackswas the age of twenty-four he discovered thathe had tuberculosis andleft New York City todwell in the he successfullycombated the diseasefor forty years and es-tablished the greatsanitarium at Saranac Lake, whicli has been the model forinnumerable others. His most famous patient was RobertLouis Stevenson, who was in his care during the winter of1887-8. One of the pests that plague the summer campers in thewoods is flies. The season for them opens in mid-Maywith the punkies, which, though only of pin-point size, arecapable of being superlatively irritable. The black flyappears in early June. Soon afterward mosquitoes begin tobe troublesome, and they are no observers of ho
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