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[Illustration: INDIAN HEAD.]
Since that first delightful trip I have visited the Adirondacks many
times, and I hope this summer to repeat the excursion. To me Tahawas
is the grand centre. It remains unchanged. In fact, the route I have
here traced is the same to-day as then. Even the rude camps are
located in the same places, with the exception that the trail has been
shortened over Tahawas, and a camp established on Skylight. With good
guides the route is not difficult for ladies in good health,--say
sufficient health to endure half a day's shopping. Persons
contemplating the mountain trip need blankets, a knapsack, and a
rubber cloth or overcoat; food can be procured at the hotels or farm
houses.
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The old English ballads have all the sparkle, the
energy and the rhythm of our mountain streams, but
Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Bunyan are the
crystal lakes from which flow the river, ay, the Hudson
of our language.
_Wallace Bruce_.
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In this hasty sketch I have had little space to indulge in
picture-painting.
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