eloquently says:

"The Adirondack wilderness may be considered the wonder and
the glory of New York. It is a vast _natural_ park, one immense
and silent forest, curiously and beautifully broken by the
gleaming waters of a myriad of lakes, between which rugged
mountain-ranges rise as a sea of granite billows. 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. To the number of those chilly peaks amid which our
principal rivers take their rise, I have added by measurement a
dozen or more over four thousand feet in height, which were
before either nameless, or only vaguely known by the names given
them by hunters and trappers.

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