in the lake, and brought to Hockwell's, on the morning of our departure, Avhich weighed between five and six pounds. •'•

On the northern shore of Luzerne Lake, Avhere the villas of Eenjamin C. Butler and J. Leati, Esqs. (seen in the picture), stood, was the ancient gathering place of the Indians in cou-ncil. Here was the fork of the great Sacandaga and Oneida trail, one branch extending to Lake George and the northern country, and the other to Port Edward and the more southern country. All around the lake and village are ranges of lofty hills, filled with iron ore. On the west is the Kayaderosseros range, extending from Ballston to the Adirondacks, and on the east of the

* Tha Masque alonqe (Eiur estor) derivea its name from the peculiar foiination of its mouth and head. The French caUed it Masque alunge, or Long-face. It is the largest of the pickerel species. Some have been caught among the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence, in the vicinity of Alexandi-ia Bay, on its southern shore, weighing fifty pounds, and measuiing five feet in length. It is the most voracious of fresh-water fish.

THE HUDSON.

Luzerne range, stretcliing from Saratoga Springs to the western shores of Lake George. Four miles north of the village is a hemispherical moun-

I-UZERXE LAKE.

tain, eight hundred feet in height, rocky and bald, which the Indians called Se-non-ffe-irah, the Great Upturned Pot.

CONFLUENCE Oy 'lUE HUDSON AND S.iCANDAUA.

The Sacandaga is the largest tributary of the Mohawk, and conies down seventy-five miles from the north-west, out of lakes and ponds in the