. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . k. Fork Island, its shape suggesting its name,terminates the cluster at the northeast. FrenchPoint piojects from the west shore, 13 milesnorth of Caldwell and is owned and occupied dur-ing the summer hy Mr. W. Stanford of Schenec-tady. Paradise Bay, on the east side, opposite FrenchPoint, is usually the objective point in the excur-sions made from the head of the lalce. It is sepa-rated from Red Rock Bay on the south by Para- LAKE GEORGE. 85 dise Point. At its northern entrance are a number oipretty islands. There are other islands about he
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . k. Fork Island, its shape suggesting its name,terminates the cluster at the northeast. FrenchPoint piojects from the west shore, 13 milesnorth of Caldwell and is owned and occupied dur-ing the summer hy Mr. W. Stanford of Schenec-tady. Paradise Bay, on the east side, opposite FrenchPoint, is usually the objective point in the excur-sions made from the head of the lalce. It is sepa-rated from Red Rock Bay on the south by Para- LAKE GEORGE. 85 dise Point. At its northern entrance are a number oipretty islands. There are other islands about here,some rising abruptly from the depths, moss-drapedand thicket-crowned while others only see the lightwhen the water sinks to its lowest level All aroundare treacherous shoals and leefs, and when the lightis right and the water rough, you may see the surfacechect-edand spotted by the bright green that markstheir position, while the little steamer with many agraceful turn, threads the labyrinth as the verdantgateways open and close along her 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 south.
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