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My dear Sir,
To you, in testimony of my friendship, I inscribe this little Volume.
On a pleasant morning in May last, I awoke from a piscatorial dream, haunted by the idea, that I must spend a portion of the approaching summer in the indulgence of my passion for angling. Relinquishing my editorial labours for a time, I performed a pilgrimage, which has resulted in the production of this Volume. I hope it may entertain those of my friends and the public, who have heretofore received my literary efforts with favour. The work will be found to contain a record of Adventures in the Valleys of the Hudson, St. Lawrence and St. John, and along some of the rivers of New England.
Truly your friend, Charles Lanman.
NEW-YORK, 1847.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
CATSKILL MOUNTAINS Page 2 LAKE HORICON 53 RUINS OF FORT TICONDEROGA 117 FRANCONIA NOTCH 138 FALLS OF MONTMORENCY 162 CAPE TRINITY ON THE SAGUENAY 180 FALLS OF THE ST. JOHN 242 ROBERT EGGER’S FARM ON THE AROOSTOOK 250
CONTENTS.
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 PAGE 1
CHAPTER II. A Spring Day—The Sky—The Mountains—The Streams—The Woods—The Open Fields—Domestic Animals—Poetry—The Poultry-yard 29
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