Emerging from the forest, we came to a field filled with boulders and blackened stumps, and, from the summit of a hill, we overlooked an extensive rolling valley, heavily timbered, stretching westward to the Windfall Mountains, and at our feet were the Clearing and the Saw-mill. The latter stood at the head of a deep rocky gorge, down which great logs are sent at high water. The clearing was too recent to allow much fruit of tillage, but preparations were made for farming, in the erection of a good frame dwelling and outhouses. The head waters of this considerable tributary of the Upper Hudson is Pickwaket Pond, four miles above the mill.

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A short distance below the confluence of the Hudson and Fishing Brook, we cntercel Eich's Lake, an irregular sheet of water, about two miles and a half in length, with surroundings more picturesque, in some

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respects, than any we had visited. Eroni its southern shore Goodenow Mountain rises to an altitude of about fifteen hundred feet, crowned by a rocky knob. Near the foot of the lake is a wooded peninsula, whose low isthmus, being covered at high water, leave.T it an island. It is called Elephant Island, because of the singular resemblance of some of the lime-

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stone formation that composes its bold shore to portions of that animal. The whole rock is perforated into singularly-formed caves. This, and

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another similar shore a few miles below, were the only deposits of limestone that we saw in all that region.