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[Illustration: CHARLES LANMAN.
AUTHOR OF ADVENTURES OF AN ANGLER IN AMERICA]


ADVENTURES OF AN ANGLER IN CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA AND THE UNITED STATES.

by

CHARLES LANMAN.







London:
Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street.
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1848.

LONDON:
Printed by Schulze & Co., 13, Poland Street.




                                   TO
                        SOLOMON T. NICOLL, ESQ.


  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 labours for a time, I performed a pilgrimage, which has
resulted in the production of this Volume. I hope it may entertain those
of my friends and the public, who have heretofore received my literary
efforts with favour. The work will be found to contain a record of
Adventures in the Valleys of the Hudson, St. Lawrence and St. John, and
along some of the rivers of New England.

                           Truly your friend,
                                                         Charles Lanman.

NEW-YORK, 1847.




                             ILLUSTRATIONS.


  CATSKILL MOUNTAINS _Page_ 2
  LAKE HORICON 53
  RUINS OF FORT TICONDEROGA 117
  FRANCONIA NOTCH 138
  FALLS OF MONTMORENCY 162
  CAPE TRINITY ON THE SAGUENAY 180
  FALLS OF THE ST. JOHN 242
  ROBERT EGGER’S FARM ON THE AROOSTOOK 250




                               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

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