"We found Hendrick Spring in the edge of a swamp-- cold, shallow, about five feet in diameter, shaded by trees, shrubbery, and vines, and fringed with the delicate brake and fern. Its waters, rising within half a mile of Long Lake, and upon the same summit level, flow southward to the Atlantic more than three hundred miles ; while those of the latter flow to the St. Lawrence, and reach the same Atlantic a thousand miles away to the far north-east. A few years ago. Professor G. "W. Benedict

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(who was connected with the State Geological Survey) attempted to unite these waters hy a canal, for lumhering purposes, hut the enterprise was ahandoned. "We followed the ditch that he had cut through the swamp nearly half a mile, among tall rospherry bushes, laden with delicious fruit, and for another half mile we made our way over the most difficult ground imaginable. Dead trees were lying in every direction, some charred, others pi;onc with black ragged roots, and all entangled in shrubherv and vines. Through this labyrinth our guides carried their

boats, and we quite heavy packs, but all were compelled to rest every few minutes, for the sun was shining hotly upon us. We were nearly an hour travelling that half mile. Thoroughly wearied, we entered one of the boats at the first navigable point on Spring Brook, that flows from the Hendi'ick source, and rowed leisurely down to Fountain Lake, while

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our guides returned for the remainder of the luggage and provisions. The passage of that portage consumed four hours.