The type is fast disappearing with our forests, so it seems fitting to perpetuate it in stone on the monument to Champlain, to whom it was of such service.
The upper part of the pedestal is decorated with carved garlands of Indian corn, and bears the following inscription on the front and back respectively:
(Front)
Samuel
Champlain
1567 1635
Navigator
Discoverer
Colonizer
(Rear)
Erected by
The State of
New York in
Commemoration
of the
Discovery of
Lake Champlain
1609 1909
(Inscription on Bronze Tablet on Rear)
LAKE CHAMPLAIN TERCENTENARY COMMISSION
STATE OF NEW YORK
GOV. CHARLES E. HUGHES.
H. WALLACE KNAPP
HENRY W. HILL
WALTER C. WITHERBEE
JAMES J. FRAWLEY
JAMES SHEA
GOV. JOHN A. DIX
WILLIAM R. WEAVER
JAMES A. FOLEY
JOHN H. BOOTH
JOHN B. RILEY
LOUIS C. LAFONTAINE
HOWLAND PELL