It is hard to realise that Fort Edward, for example, has hidden away, beneath the evidences of modern industry and thrift, an early history that is full of romance and derring-do.

ON THE RIVER BETWEEN GLENS FALLS AND SANDY HILL

(From a draixjing hy W. G. M'ilso)!)

First of all, it was granted to Domine Dellius of Albany, who transferred his title to his successor in the church, John Lydius, the latter building there a trading house. Then a fort was erected on the spot, and in honour of the Lieutenant-Governor of New York it was named Nicholson. Next it was rebuilt and

called Fort Lyman by one of Sir William Johnson's subordinates, but the commander soon rechristened it Edward. It was a place of great importance during

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the French and Indian wars, and was at that time the scene of the well-known ex])loit of Israel Putnam, when he stood upon the roof of the powder magazine and fought, single-handed, the fire that consumed the structure next to it. Here, too, it was that the muridc;e at glens falls

der of Jennie McCrea, by some of Burgoyne's Indian allies, gave Gates a telling argument, with which not a few wavering partisans w^ere turned against the British cause. With Fort Edw^ard, as with nearly all of the upper river towns, the possession of one of the most magnifi-

The Hudson River cent water-powers in the world has decided the direction of its activity. Glens Falls, eighteen miles above Saratoga, was once known as Wing's Falls, and long before that the Indians gave it a name of their own. As usual, the