. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . lli;il, i\ H-fi 1,AKE CTHAMPLAIN. ground are the barrack walls, trenches and the west, beyond the outlet^ of Lake George isMount Defiance. Opposite the fortat the south-east, the lakeis narrow-ed down by thenear ap-proachof ,whichwas alsofortifiedwhile heldcommandBetweenthe two pointsran the chain,or floating lake here turnstoward the north, the water washing three sides ofthe promontory. Across the locust-covered flat, justnorth of the ruins, from a point near the drawbridge,lay Ethan Allen

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. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . lli;il, i\ H-fi 1,AKE CTHAMPLAIN. ground are the barrack walls, trenches and the west, beyond the outlet^ of Lake George isMount Defiance. Opposite the fortat the south-east, the lakeis narrow-ed down by thenear ap-proachof ,whichwas alsofortifiedwhile heldcommandBetweenthe two pointsran the chain,or floating lake here turnstoward the north, the water washing three sides ofthe promontory. Across the locust-covered flat, justnorth of the ruins, from a point near the drawbridge,lay Ethan Allens route in 1775. Tlie name is the composite of a dozen or moreIndian terms with something of the same sound, asTiconderoga, Tieiideroga, Cheonderoga^ etc., thewords used by the natives meaning the coming to-gether or meethig of waters (Golden, 1765 • Pownell,1774). Garillon. the French name, means musicracket, a V if I |f ■ vs

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