The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . eat changes. Avalanche Lake, evidently once a part ofLake Golden, is about eighty feet higher than the latter, and more thantwo miles from it. They have been separated by, perhaps, a series ofavalanches, or mountain slides, which still occur in that region. From * Tlie wat( r view in the iiictui-e of the Locn is a scene on HaiTiss Lake, with Goodenow Moiuitaiuin the distance. THE HUDSON. 41 the top of Tahawus we saw the white glare of several, striping the sidesof mountain cones. At thi-ee oclock we reached our camp at Calamity Pond, and justbefore
The Hudson, from the wilderness to the sea . eat changes. Avalanche Lake, evidently once a part ofLake Golden, is about eighty feet higher than the latter, and more thantwo miles from it. They have been separated by, perhaps, a series ofavalanches, or mountain slides, which still occur in that region. From * Tlie wat( r view in the iiictui-e of the Locn is a scene on HaiTiss Lake, with Goodenow Moiuitaiuin the distance. THE HUDSON. 41 the top of Tahawus we saw the white glare of several, striping the sidesof mountain cones. At thi-ee oclock we reached our camp at Calamity Pond, and justbefore sunset emerged from the forest into the open fields near Adiron-dack village, where we regaled ourselves with the bountiful fruitage ofthe raspberry shrub. At Mr. Hunters we found kind and generousentertainment, and at an early hour the next morning w;e started for thegreat Indian Pass, four miles distant. Half a mile from Henderson Lake we crossed its outlet upon a pictu-resque bridge, and following a causeway another half a mile through a. clearing, we penetrated the forest, and struck one of the chief branchesof the Upper Hudson, that comes from the rocky chasms of that journey was much more difficult than to Tahawus. The under-growth of the forest was more dense, and trees more frequently layathwart the dim trail. We crossed the stream several times, and, as weascended, the valley narrowed until we entered the rocky gorge betweenthe steep slopes of Mount MIntyre and the cliffs of Wall-face we encountered enormous masses of rocks, some worn by theabrasion of the elements, some angular, some bare, and some coveredwith moss, and many of them bearing large trees, whose roots, clasping 42 THE HUDSON. them on all sides, strike into the earth for sustenance. One of themasses presented a singular appearance; it is of cubic form, its summitfull thirty feet from its base, and upon it was quite a grove of hemlockand cedar trees. Around and partly under this and
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