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Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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On the Beaver River.
Before the scenery was destroyed by the state dam.
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ned old doctor and professor from New Haven whointerested me very much. He was quite infirm, and his son, who accompaniedhim, with filial devotion anticipated every want. The brave old man was outearly every morning, and with a guide rowed around the little rocky peninsula,southeasterly from the hotel, to the mouth of a cold stream that comes throughthe tamaracks into the lake not far beyond. There at the edge of the lily-pads(successors of those noted by W. C. Prime in his delicious volume, I GoA-Fishing, on page 125), he skillfully and patiently cast his flies until he tookthe one big trout awaiting his morning call, and then returned to the hotel tobreakfast and for the day. It was something more than a splendid trout that he brought to view as wemet him at the landing. The young heart in the old body, the genuine enthusiasmof the veteran angler, the glorification of the gentle art which has soothed andcomforted many an aged philosopher — all this he revealed to us, and we wanted
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s <: « w H B Pi Q a ftf >*O Ul « > H < Id w « PQ cfi H a ?: ^ a O u a r- a « o a a B FISHES AND FISHING IN THE ADIRONDACK^. 289 to lift the grand old man to our shoulders and bear him in reverent triumph upthe ascent. » Possibly the sportsmans view—especially if he is past the age whenDr. Osier says he should be chloroformed — may be extended to another subjectwhich concerns him indirectly, but very much. He will venture to say his say. By the terms of section 7, Article VII, of the Constitution of 1894 the landsof the State, then owned or thereafter acquired, within the limits of the ForestPreserve, are forever to be kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased,sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shallthe timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed. This new provision of theConstitution outlined and fixed the policy of the State with reference to these lands. Chapter 220, La

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