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 CHAPTER III. [A corn-planting Bee] 43 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] 50 CHAPTER V. [The Scaroon Country—Scaroon Lake—Pike Fishing by Torch-light—Trout Fishing—Lyndsey’s Tavern—Paradox Lake] 69 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] 308