The northern traveller, and northern tour, with the routes to the Springs, Niagara, & Quebec, and the coal mines of Pennsylvania, also, tour of New England . quarter of a mile, the steamboat passesTea Island, Diamond, Long, and other islands, par-ticularly the Two Sisters ; and then the lake be-comes wider, and the surface more uninterrupted,the course of the boat being directly towards a re-markable eminence, with a double summit, calledTongue Mountain. That which partly shuts it infrom this direction on the right, is Shelving Rock ;and Black Mountain shows its rounded summit be-yond it, a li
The northern traveller, and northern tour, with the routes to the Springs, Niagara, & Quebec, and the coal mines of Pennsylvania, also, tour of New England . quarter of a mile, the steamboat passesTea Island, Diamond, Long, and other islands, par-ticularly the Two Sisters ; and then the lake be-comes wider, and the surface more uninterrupted,the course of the boat being directly towards a re-markable eminence, with a double summit, calledTongue Mountain. That which partly shuts it infrom this direction on the right, is Shelving Rock ;and Black Mountain shows its rounded summit be-yond it, a little further to the right. This last issupposed to be about 2200 feet high, and the high-est mountain on the lake. Twelve Mile Island appears to be at the foot ofTongue Mountain, and is seen just ahead for a greatdistance after leaving Caldwell. It is of a singular-ly rounded form, covered with trees, with the ut-most regularity, and protected from the washing ofthe waves by a range of large stones along theshore, so well disposed as to seem like a work ofart. A rich and cultivated slope is seen on the west-ern shore, before reaching Tongue Mountain,. , III I. I 11 LAKE GEORGE. l4l The Narrows. The lake is very much con-tracted, where it passes between the mountainsjust mentioned, and the surface is for several milesbroken by innumerable islands. These are of va-rious sizes, but generally very small, and of littleelevation. A few of them are named, as Green,Bass, Lone-tree islands. Some are covered withtrees, others with shrubs, some show little lawns orspots of grass, heaps of barren rocks, or gentlysloping shores ; and most of them are ornamentedwith graceful pines, hemlocks, and other tall trees,collected in groups, or standing alone, and dispos-ed with most charming variety. Sometimes anisland will be observed just large enough to sup-port a few fine trees, or perhaps a single one, whilethe next may appear like a solid mass of bushes andwild flowers; near at hand, perhaps,
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