The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . is called Pickerel Weed (Pontederia cordata of LiniiiEUs), but Ihe guides call itmoose-head. The stem is stout and cylindrical, and bears a spear-shaped leaf, somewhat cordate at thebase. The flowers, which appear in July and August, are composed of dense spikes, of a rich bluecolour. A picture of the moose-head is seen in the water beneath the initial letter at the head ofChapter I. 22 THE HUDSON. The rapids at the head of Harriss Lake arc very picturesque. Look-ing up from them, Goodenow Mountain is seen in the distance, and stillmore remote arc g
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . is called Pickerel Weed (Pontederia cordata of LiniiiEUs), but Ihe guides call itmoose-head. The stem is stout and cylindrical, and bears a spear-shaped leaf, somewhat cordate at thebase. The flowers, which appear in July and August, are composed of dense spikes, of a rich bluecolour. A picture of the moose-head is seen in the water beneath the initial letter at the head ofChapter I. 22 THE HUDSON. The rapids at the head of Harriss Lake arc very picturesque. Look-ing up from them, Goodenow Mountain is seen in the distance, and stillmore remote arc glimpses of the Windfall range. We passed the rapidsupon boulders, and then voyaged down to the confluence of the twostreams just mentioned. From a rough rocky bluff a mile below thatpoint, we obtained a distant view of three of the higher peaks of theAdirondacks—Tahawus or Mount Marcy, Mount Golden, and MountMIntyre. We returned at evening beneath a canopy of magnificentclouds; aud that night was made strangely luminous by one of the most. HVllUo Ar IHL HEAD OF H\RK1SS LAKE. splendid displays of the Aurora Eorcalis ever seen upon the was observed as far south as Charleston, in South Carolina. Sabattis is itn active Methodist, and at his request (their minister nothaving arrived) Mr. Buckingham read the beautiful liturgy of the Churchof England on Sunday morning to a congregation of thirty 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
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