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

[CHAPTER II.]

A spring day—The sky—The mountains—The streams—The woods—The open fields—Domestic animals—Poetry—The poultry yard

[CHAPTER III.]

The Corn Planting Bee

[CHAPTER IV.]

Lake Horicon—Sketches of its scenery—Information for anglers—Sabbath Day Point—War memories—The insect city—Death of a deer—Rogers’ Slide—Diamond Island—The snake charmer—Snake stories—Night on Horicon

[CHAPTER V.]

The Scaroon country—Scaroon Lake—Pike fishing by torchlight—Trout fishing—Lyndsay’s Tavern—Paradox Lake

[CHAPTER VI.]

The Adirondac Mountains—Trout fishing in the Boreas River—A night in the woods—Moose Lake—Lake Delia—The Newcomb Farm—Mount Tahawus—The Indian Pass—Lakes Sanford and Henderson—The McIntyre iron works

[CHAPTER VII.]

John Cheney, the Adirondac hunter—Some of his exploits

[CHAPTER VIII.]

Burlington—Lake Champlain—Distinguished men

[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 Mountains—The Basin—Franconia Notch—View of the mountains—Mount Washington—The Notch Valley

[CHAPTER X.]

Montreal

[CHAPTER XI.]

Quebec

[CHAPTER XII.]

A sail down the St. Lawrence—Sword-fish chasing a whale

[CHAPTER XIII.]

The Saguenay River—Storm picture—The Hudson’s Bay Company—Eminent merchant—The Mountaineer Indians—Tadousac—Ruin of a Jesuit establishment

[CHAPTER XIV.]

The salmon—Several adventures

[CHAPTER XV.]

Seal hunting on the St. Lawrence—The white porpoise