Showing The Adirondack Region: History and Adventures of Early Times by Richard Coughlin

Excerpt from The Adirondack Region: History and Adventures of Early Times In several characteristics the Adirondack Region of Northern New York preserves a similarity to the Great Wilderness described by early French, Dutch and English soldiers, missionaries and traders. Its rugged heights and broad expanses of forests and lakes still provide retreats for abundant game and fish, for which it was noted in early days of Indian warfare and white settlement. Vast tracts of virgin forest lands are owned by the State and these will provide perpetual shelter for wild life, while maintaining the steady flow of water in numerous streams and rivers having their sources within this great reservoir of nature. The barriers of mountains, woods and waters still divert much of the traffic between the St. Lawrence and Hudson valleys to the lower and more level lands of the east and west, as it did in early times of canoe and pack traders. Though the railroads and the State's system of highways are making all parts of this great summer playground easily accessible, yet the charm of primeval forest and mountain scenery will never be lost. The land and climate generally are not suitable to agriculture, except as a precarious venture, and while extensive tracts of land have been cleared by lumbermen and swept by fire, yet the forest renews itself within a generation if trees enough are left for natural seeding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are