America, picturesque and descriptive . e Keene Valley with the adjacent mountain slopes,extending through parts of three counties and cover-ing a tract of forty square miles, is the AdirondackMountain Reserve. This reservation gives completeprotection to the lish and game, and also preservesthe forests and sources of the water supply. TheLower Ausable Lake is about two miles long and theUpper Ausable Lake nearly the same length, therebeing over a miles distance between them. Some ofthe highest and most romantic of the Adiiondackpeaks environ these lakes. The sharply-cut summitof Mount Colvin r
America, picturesque and descriptive . e Keene Valley with the adjacent mountain slopes,extending through parts of three counties and cover-ing a tract of forty square miles, is the AdirondackMountain Reserve. This reservation gives completeprotection to the lish and game, and also preservesthe forests and sources of the water supply. TheLower Ausable Lake is about two miles long and theUpper Ausable Lake nearly the same length, therebeing over a miles distance between them. Some ofthe highest and most romantic of the Adiiondackpeaks environ these lakes. The sharply-cut summitof Mount Colvin rises forty-one hundred and fiftyfeet alongside them. The Ausable Lakes are in thebottom of a deep cleft between these great moun-tains, their sides rising almost sheer, two thousandfeet and more above them. The lake shores are steepand rocky walls, reared apparently to the sky, thedeep and contracted cleft making the lakes look morelike rivers, surmounted high up the rocks by over-hanging foliage, the trees diminutive in the \ - - Mvw YORK: LIBRARY ND L ADIRONDACK ATTRACTIONS. 315 Of the Upper Ausable Lake, Warnei* writes that^^lu the sweep of its wooded shores, and the h)velycontour of the h>fty mountains that guard it, this hd\eis probably the most cliarming in America. ADIRONDACK ATTRACTIONS. The western guardian peaks of the Keene Valleyare the main range of the Adirondacks, includingMount Marcy or Tahawus. Mount Colvin, alongsidethe Ausable Lakes, was named in honor of VcrplanckColvin, the New York surveyor and geologist, whodevoted years of energy to the survey of this Avilder-ness, and perhaps knew it better than anyone Avas always in love with it, and thought that fewreally understood it. He described it as a peculiarregion, for though the geographical centre of theAvilderness may be readily reached, in the light canoe-like boats of the guides, by lakes and rivers whichform a labyrinth of passages for boats, the core, orrather cores, of this wilder
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