During the past four days we had travelled thirty miles on foot in the tangled forest, camped

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out two nights, and seen some of nature's wildest and grandest lineaments. These mountain and lake districts, which form the wilderness of northern New York, give to the tourist most exquisite sensations, and the physical system appears to take in health at every pore. Invalids go in with hardly strength enough to reach some quiet log-house in a clearing, and come out with strong quick pulse and elastic muscles. Every year the number of tourists and sportsmen who go there rapidly increases, and women begin to find more pleasure and health in that wilderness than at fashionable watering-places. No wild country in the world can offer

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more solid attractions to those who desiie to spend a few weeks of leisure away from the haunts of men. Pure air and water, and game in abundance, may there be found, while in all that region not a venomous reptile or poisonous plant may be seen, and the beasts of prey are too few and shy to cause the least alarm to the most timid. The climate is deliglitful, and there are fertile valleys among those rugged hills that will yet smile in beauty under the cultivator's hand. It has been called by the uninformed the " Siberia of New York ;" it may more properly be called the " Switzerland of the United States."

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The wind came from among- the mountaius in fitful gusts, thick mists were sweeping around the peaks and through the gorges, and there were frequent dashes of rain, sometimes falling like showers of gold, in the sunlight that gleamed through the hroken clouds, on the morning when we left Adirondack village. "We had hired a strong waggon, with three spring seats, and a team of experienced horses, to convey us from the lieart of the wilderness to the Scarron valley, thirty miles distant, and after breakfast we left the kind family of Mr.