The Adirondack
J.t. Headley
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(RareBooksClub.com, May 12, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ... for him, and he fell at last, where he could not even turn at bay. The delicate nostril was relaxed in death, and the slender limbs stiff and cold. I was awakened from my moralizing by Mitchell, who that moment ceased rowing and gave a call. The gallant white hound had followed the track of the deer to the water, where he stoo perplexed and anxious till the first rifle shot fell over the lake, He then plunged in, and had ever since been swim ming after us in the chase. We lay-to, and took the noble fellow in and then pulled for shore A MAGNIFICENT PROSPECT FOURTEEN HOURS WITHOUT FOOD. Owl's Head, August 5 Dear H: Have you ever been on the summit of the Righi, in Switzerland? It is said to command the finest view in that land of magnificent prospects. I once stood on its top, and saw the sun come up in his glory, till forests, lakes, rivers, and villages sprang into life and beauty, and the whole range of the Bernese Alps, from Sentis to the Jungfrau, glittered in red and gold, while the vast snow fields slept in deep shadow between. My eye never opened on a more glorious panorama, and I stood amid its surpassing beauties in silent amazement. The view, it is said, embraces a tract of country three hundred miles in circumference, with eleven lakes in sight from the summit, though I never could make out more than half that number. The Righi has become almost a classic name, while the " Owl's Head," from which I date my letter, has never yet dared to show its face in civilized life. Indeed, the cognomen has been given by a man wandering by, from its shape, and it waits a new christening. A forester here has requested me to give it a name, promising it shall keep it. If you will send me one, I will see to the baptism, and you shall have the honor of n...