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Charles Dudley Warner says:  “Bolton, among a host of attractive spots on the lake, holds, in my opinion, a rank among the two or three most interesting points.  There is no point of Lake George where the views are so varied or more satisfactory, excepting the one from Sabbath-day Point.  At Bolton the islets which dot the surface of the lake whose waters are blue as the sea in the tropics, carry the eye to the rosy-tinted range which includes Pilot, Buck and Erebus Mountains, and culminates in the stateliness of Black Mountain.  Or, looking northwest, the superb masses of verdure on Green Island are seen mirrored on the burnished surface of the lake.  Behind rises the mighty dividing wall called Tongue Mountain, which seems to separate the lake in twain, for Ganouskie, or Northwest Bay, five miles long, is in effect a lake by itself, with its own peculiar features.”  The Champlain Transportation Company runs a regular line of steamboats the entire length of the lake, making three round trips daily, except Sunday.  The “Horicon” is a fine side-wheel steamer, 203 feet long and 52 feet wide, and will accommodate, comfortably, 1,000 people.

At Fort Ti the tourist can continue his northern route via the Delaware & Hudson to Hotel Champlain, Plattsburgh, Rouse’s Point, or Montreal, or through Lake Champlain by steamer.  The ruins of Fort Ti, like old Fort Putnam at West Point, are picturesque, and will well repay a visit.

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  Far off the dreaming waters lie,
    White cascades leap in snowy foam,
  Lake Champlain mirrors cloud and sky,
    The Hudson seeks his ocean home.

  Benjamin F. Leggett.

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=Lake George to the Adirondacks.=

The reader who does not visit Lake George may feel that he is switched off on a side-track at Fort Edward; so, coming to his rescue, we return and resume our northern journey via the main line, through Dunham’s Basin, Smith’s Basin, Fort Ann, and Comstock’s Landing, to—­

=Whitehall=, at the head of Lake Champlain.  From this point north the Delaware & Hudson crosses all thresholds for the Adirondacks, and shortens the journey to the mountain districts.  It passes through five mountain ranges, the most southerly, the Black Mountain range, terminating in Mt.  Defiance, with scattering spurs coming down to the very shore of the lake.  The second range is known as the Kayaderosseras, culminating in Bulwagga Mountain.  The third range passes through the western part of Schroon, the northern part of Moriah and centre of Westport, ending in Split Rock Mountain.  The fourth range, the Bouquet range, ends in high bluffs on Willsboro Bay.  Here the famous Red-Hook Cut is located, and the longest tunnel on the line.

The fifth range, known as the Adirondack Range, as it includes the most lofty of the Adirondack Mountains, viz.:  McIntyre, Colden and Tahawas, ends in a rocky promontory known as Tremblau Point, at Port Kent.