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.

Well prepared with all necessaries excepting flannel over-shirts, we set out from Adirondack on the afternoon of the oOth of August, our guides

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"with their packs leading the way. The morning had been misty, but the atmosphere was then clear and cool. We crossed the Hudson three-fourths of a mile below Henderson Lake, upon a rude bridge, made our way through a clearing tangled with tall raspberry shrubs full of fruit, for nearly half a mile, and then entered the deep and solemn forest, composed of birch, maple, cedar, hemlock, spruce, and tall pine trees. Our way was over a level for three-fourths of a mile, to the outlet of Calamity I'ond. We crossed it at a beautiful cascade, and then commenced ascend-

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ing by a sinuous mountaiu path, across whicli many a huge tree had been cast by the wind. It was a weary journey of almost four miles (notwithstanding it lay along the track of a lane cut through the forest a few years ago for a special purpose, of which we shall presently speak), for in many places the soil was hidden by boulders covered with thick moss, over which we Avere compelled to climb. Towards sunset we reached a ideasant little lake, embosomed in the dense forest, its low wet margin fringed with brilliant yellow tiowers, beautiful in form but Avithout perfume.