It is about seventy miles from the Adirondack village, and on the borders of the great wilderness, where game and fish abound, and for a quiet place of summer resoi't, can hardly be surpassed. It lies at the foot of a high blutf, down which fiows in cascades the outlet of Luzerne Lake, and leaps into the Hwdsou, which here makes a magnificent sweep before rushing, in narrow channel and foaming rapids between high rocky banks, to receive the equally turbulent waters of the Sacandaga, just below. That place the Indians called Tt'o-sa-ron-da, the "Meeting of the Waters." Twenty years ago, there were several mills at the head of these falls : a flood swept them away, and they have never been rebuilt.

The rapids at Luzerne, which form a fall of about eighteen feet, bear the name of Jesup's Little Palls, to distinguish them from Jesup's Great

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Fall?, five miles below, Loth being included in patents granted to Ebenezer Jesup, who, with a family of Fairchilds, settled there before the Revolution, Avhen Luzerne Avas called Westfield. These settlers espoused the cause of the king, and because of their depredations upon their Whig neighbours, became very obnoxious. They held intercourse with the loyal Scotch Highlanders, who were under the influence of the Johnsons and other royalists in the Mohawk valley, and acted as spies and inforaiants for the enemies of republicanism. In the summer of 1777,

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while liurgoyue was making his way toward Albany, Colonel St„ Leger penetrated the upper Mohawk valley, and laid siege to Fort Schuyler. On one occasion he sent Indian messengers to the Fairchilds, who took the old trail through the Sacandaga valley, by way .of the Fish House, owned by Sir William Johnson. AVhen they approached Tio-sa-ron-da (Luzerne), they were discovered and pursued by a party of republicans, and one of them, close pressed, leaped the Hudson, at the foot of Jesup's Little Falls, the high wooded banks then approaching within twenty-five feet of each other.