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    rock , which have figured in some legend or fiction . I found a party of ladies exploring them at the hazard of their necks . They pronounced them to be most charmingly romantic ^ dark , and dismal .

    Approaching the lake , the road traverses a defile between long ranges of mountains which ,, further north , skirt the shores of the lake its whole extent . In the early wars with the French , this was a most important military pass , being the main entrance from Canada . Two strong fortresses were built at the south end of the lake , to defend this Thermopylae ., and their ruins , now overgrown with trees , are still discernible . At this point , the traveller emerges from the woods , and catches the first glimpse of Lake

    George . The little village of Caldweli is seen on the slope of the western bank , which rises gracefully from the water to a lofty height : the opposite shore presents a steep and shaggy pile of forest . Casting a view beyond , the eye passes along the beautiful expanse of water between , and rests upon the blue mountain tops , which close the long vista in the distance . The rays of the setting sun threw a mellow upon these heights , which it is rare to remark in the mountain scenery of this country . Embarking

    the next morning in the little steam-boat which plies upon the lake , I contemplated the remarkable beauty of its banks , the

    transparency of its waters , and the charmingly picturesque groups of islands which diversify its surface . During its whole length , which is thirty-four miles , it presents a perpetually varying succession of the most romantic views : in all this extent there is not a spot in the landscape that is unsightly ; no bare strand , naked bank , plashy margin , or monotonous flat ; no speck to mar the loveliness of the scene , but every feature of beauty so combined , contrasted , and diversified as to present to the eye an untiring diorama . On both sides , the mountains , clothed with wood , rise

    abruptly from the water ; the lake now narrowing , now widening , now sweeping round a bold headland , surprises you every moment with some striking change . The forests have not the dark green hue which I had remarked on the mountains of Massachusetts ; they are more rocky and less thickly wooded : this gives them at a distance a mellower tint , and where the lake opens a long vista , they vary in the distance through innumerable shades of green , blue , and purple , into the thin misty hue of furthest vision . Here and there a house stands perched on the mountain side or at the water ' s edge ; but generally the scene is one of perfect wildness . The islands are innumerable ; they are of all sizes , and not one but seems made on purpose to add a new beauty to the scene . They are covered with trees ; and you may often see a rock rising out of the water apparently not a foot square , with a tali tree growing on it . Some of them are low and flat , looking like clumps of trees growing in the water . A Erout ) of islands in one t > lace has the exact resemblance © fa fleet

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/19/