eadth, and dashes
wildly over falls and rapids on its way to Lake Champlain. It is said to
rival the famous Swiss Gorge du Triant.

Schuyler's Island, upon the shore of which we passed Tuesday night, is
nearly in the latitude of Burlington, Vermont. The distance from Port
Douglass on the west, to Burlington on the east side of Champlain, over
an open expanse of water, is nine miles and three quarters. We
breakfasted by starlight, and passed Ligonier's Point early in the day.
One mile and a half east of it is the group of little islands called
Four Brothers. The lake grew narrower as we rowed southward, until,
after passing Port Henry Iron Works, and the high promontory of Crown
Point, upon which are the ruins of the French Fort Frederic, built in
1731, it has a width of only two miles.

At eight o'clock P. M. we dropped anchor under the banks of Ticonderoga,
not far from the outlet of Lake George. It is four miles by road between
the two lakes. The stream which connects them can be ascended from
Champlain about two miles to the Iron Works, the remainder of the river
being filled with rapids.

A railroad now (1867) connects lakes George and Champlain, over which an
easy portage can be made. The ruined walls of Fort Ticonderoga are near
the railroad landing. A little south of this the lake grows so narrow as
to resemble a river. At its southern end, twenty-four miles from
Ticonderoga, is situated the town of Whitehall, where the Champlain and
Hudson River Canal forms a junction with Lake Champlain. This long
river-like termination of Champlain gave to the Indians the fancy of
calling it _Tisinondrosa_--"the tail of the lake;" which in mouths
inexperienced with the savage tongue became corrupted into Ticonderoga.

Wednesday broke upon us a glorious day. Proceeding three miles to
Patterson's Landing, into the "tail of the lake," I left the Mayeta to
explore on foot the shores of Lake George, promising Bodfish to join him
at Whitehall when my work should be finished.

CHAPTER IV.

FROM LAKES GEORGE AND CHAMPLAIN TO THE HUDSON RIVER.

THE DISCOVERY OF LAKE GEORGE BY FATHER JOGUES.--A PEDESTRIAN
JOURNEY.--THE HERMIT OF THE NARROWS.--CONVENT OF ST. MARY'S OF THE
LAKE.--THE PAULIST FATHERS.--CANAL-ROUTE FROM LAKE CHAMPLAIN TO
ALBANY.--BODFISH RETURNS TO NEW JERSEY.--THE LITTLE FLEET IN ITS HAVEN
OF REST.

In the last chapter I gave, from seemingly good authority, the
appellation of the narrow terminal water of th