. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . NARROWS FROM I HE NORTH . Black MountaiD stands on our right, the Mon-arch of the Lake. It stretches away to the north, seem-ing to recede as we approach and to travel with us,its granite crest lifted over two thousand feet aboveus, its rocky Sdes seamed and scarred and reddenedby fires that have swept over it in times past. Asentinel, it seems, overlooking the whole lake andmountains round about; the first to welcome therising sun. and at evening, glowing in the splendoiof the dying day, while the valleys below are mistywith the shadows of
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . NARROWS FROM I HE NORTH . Black MountaiD stands on our right, the Mon-arch of the Lake. It stretches away to the north, seem-ing to recede as we approach and to travel with us,its granite crest lifted over two thousand feet aboveus, its rocky Sdes seamed and scarred and reddenedby fires that have swept over it in times past. Asentinel, it seems, overlooking the whole lake andmountains round about; the first to welcome therising sun. and at evening, glowing in the splendoiof the dying day, while the valleys below are mistywith the shadows of coming night. From its sum LARE GEORGE. mit, 2,661 feet above tide, and 2,315 above LakeGeorge, nearly the entire lake may -be seen To thenorth is Lake Champlain; at the east lie the GreenMountains; on the west and north the Adirondacksrise one above another, while away toward the BLACK MOUNTAIN. like a thread of silver, stretches the mighty you make the ascent dont forget to take an extrablanket or heavy shawl, and dont forget the Black Mountain Point a road ascends to thetop of Black IMountain. Half Way Isle is under the west shore, the centreof a circle, of v hich the circumference is the rim ofa mountain that rises, amphitheater-like, around itswestern side. The Three Sirens, lovely andinviting, bat surrounded by dangerous shoals andreefs, are near the middle of the lake opj^osiiCHalf Way Island. Hatcliet Island is one of thesame chain; the derivation of the is unl-inown,but tradition connects it with an India 1 luLclict whichsome one found there some time. Ono Tree Isl-and is just west of the channel usually here runs close under the east shore. 1 he LAKE GEORGE. 87 stump is all that remains of that one Battery is north of One Tree IS the southernmost large of the grouplyin
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