At The Northeast The Mountains Culminate Within An Area Of Some Hundreds Of Square Miles; And Here Savage, Treeless Peaks, Towering Above The Timber Line, Crowd One Another, And, Standing Gloomily Shoulder To Shoulder, Rear Their Rocky Crests Amid The Frosty Clouds.

The wild beasts may look forth from the ledges on the mountain-sides over unbroken woodlands stretching beyond the

Reach of sight - beyond the blue, hazy ridges at the horizon. The voyager by the canoe beholds lakes in which these mountains and wild forests are reflected like inverted reality; now wondrous in their dark grandeur and solemnity, now glorious in resplendent autumn color of pearly beauty. Here - thrilling sound to huntsman - echoes the wild melody of the hound, awakening the solitude with deep-mouthed bay as he pursues the swift career of deer. The quavering note of the loon on the lake, the mournful hoot of the owl at night, with rarer forest voices have also to the lover of nature their peculiar charm, and form the wild language of this forest.

"It is this region of lakes and mountains - whose mountain core is well shown by the illustration, 'the heart of the Adirondacks' - that our citizens desire to reserve forever as a public forest park, not only as a resort of rest for themselves and for posterity, but for weighty reasons of political economy. For reservoirs of water for the canals and rivers; for the amelioration of spring floods by the preservation of the forests sheltering the deep winter snows; for the salvation of the timber, - our only cheap source of lumber supply should the Canadian and western markets be ruined by fires, or otherwise lost to us, - its preservation as a state forest is urgently demanded.

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