It is a beautiful tree, often found from fifty to eighty feet in height, and the trnnk from two to three feet in diameter. From the sap, which flows abundantly in the f>pring, delicious sj-rup and excellent sugar are made. In the Upper Hudson region, the sap is procured by making a smaU incision with an axe, or a hole with an augur, into the body of the tree, into which a small tube or gutter is fttstened. From thence the sap flows, and is caught in rough trouglis, dug out of small logs. [See the initial letter at the liead of Chapter HI.] It is collected into tubs, and boiled in caldron kettles. The syrup remains in buckets from twelve to twenty-four hours, and settles before straining. To make sugar it is boiled carefully over a slow fire. To cleanse it, the white of one egg, and one gill of milk, are used for every 30 lbs. or 40 lbs. of sugav. Some settlers manufacture a considerable (quantity of sugar everj' year, as much as from 300 lbs. tj 6U01bs.

THE HUDSON.

pot, tiu plates and cups, knives, forks, and spoons. These, with sha-\vls or overcoats, and india-rubber capes to keep off the rain, the guides will carry, with gnu, axe, and fishing-tackle. Sportsmen who expect to camp out some time, should take with them a light tent. The guides will fish, hunt, work, build "camps," and do all other necessary service, for a moderate compensation and their food. It is proper here to remark that the tourist should never enter this wilderness earlier than the middle of August. Then the files and moscpitoes, the intolerable pests of the Ibrests, are rapidly disappearing, and fine weather may be expt'cted. The sportsman must go in June or July for trout, and in October for deer.