A T O U R
TO THE
R I V E R S A G U E N A Y ,
IN
L O W E R C A N A D A .
BY
CHARLES LANMAN,
AUTHOR OF “A SUMMER IN THE WILDERNESS.”
PHILADELPHIA:
C A R E Y A N D H A R T .
1848.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by
CAREY AND HART,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA:
T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.
TO
SOLOMON T. NICOLL, ESQ.,
OF NEW YORK CITY.
MY DEAR SIR,
To you, in testimony of my friendship, I inscribe this little
volume.
On a pleasant morning in May last, I awoke from a piscatorial
dream, haunted by the idea that I _must_ spend a portion of the
approaching summer in the indulgence of my passion for angling.
Relinquishing my editorial labors for a time, I performed a
pilgrimage which has resulted in the production of this volume,
and I hope it may entertain those of my friends and the public
who have heretofore received my literary efforts with favor. The
work will be found to contain a record of adventures in the
valleys of the Hudson, St. Lawrence and St. Johns, and along
some of the rivers of New England.
Truly, your friend,
CHARLES LANMAN.
NEW YORK, _Autumn of 1847_.
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