CONTENTS.
Charles Lanman
CHAPTER I.
The Catskill Mountains—South Peak Mountain—A thunder storm—Midnight on the Mountains—Sunrise—Plauterkill Clove—Peter Hummel—Trout fishing—Stony Clove—The Kauterskill Fall—The Mountain House—The Mountain Lake
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CHAPTER II.
A Spring Day—The Sky—The Mountains—The Streams—The Woods—The Open Fields—Domestic Animals—Poetry—The Poultry-yard
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CHAPTER III.
A corn-planting Bee
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CHAPTER IV.
Lake Horicon—Sketches of its scenery—Information for anglers—Sabbath-day Point—War memories—The Turret City—Death of a deer—Roger’s Slide—Diamond Island—The snake-charmer—Snake stories—Night on the Horicon
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CHAPTER V.
The Scaroon Country—Scaroon Lake—Pike Fishing by Torch-light—Trout Fishing—Lyndsey’s Tavern—Paradox Lake
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CHAPTER VI.
The Adirondac Mountains—Trout Fishing in the Boreas River—A night in the woods—Moose Lake—Lake Delia—Mount Tahawas—Lakes Sanford and Henderson—The McIntyre Iron Works
80
CHAPTER VII.
John Cheney, the Adirondac hunter, and some of his exploits
100
CHAPTER VIII.
Burlington—Lake Champlain—Distinguished Men
115
CHAPTER IX.
Stage-coach—The Winooski—The Green Mountains—The ruined Dwelling—The White Mountains—The Flume—A deep Pool—The Old Man of the Mountain—The Basin—Franconia Notch—View of the Mountains—Mount Washington—The Notch Valley
130
CHAPTER X.
Montreal
148
CHAPTER XI.
Quebec
155
CHAPTER XII.
A sail down the St. Lawrence—Sword-Fish—Chasing a Whale
164
CHAPTER XIII.
The Saguenay River—Chicoutimi—Storm Picture—Hudson’s Bay Company—Eminent Merchant—The Mountaineer Indians—Tadousac—Ruin of a Jesuit Establishment
173
CHAPTER XIV.
The Salmon—Salmon Adventures
187
CHAPTER XV.
Seal-hunting on the St. Lawrence—The white Porpoise
204
CHAPTER XVI.
The Esquimaux Indians of Labrador
212
CHAPTER XVII.
The Habitans of Canada
218
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Grand Portage into New Brunswick—Lake Timiscouta—The Madawaska River
225
CHAPTER XIX.
The Acadians
232
CHAPTER XX.
Sail down the Madawaska—The Falls of the St. John
238
CHAPTER XXI.
The Hermit of Aroostook
244
CHAPTER XXII.
The River St. John
266
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Penobscot River
272
CHAPTER XXIV.
Moosehead Lake—The River Kennebeck
278
CHAPTER XXV.
A Fishing Party on the Thames—Watch Hill—Night Adventures
291
CHAPTER XXVI.
A week in a Fishing Smack—Fisherman—A beautiful morning at sea—A day at Nantucket—Wreck of a ship—Night on the Sound
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ADVENTURES
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