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Title: Rand
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946
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Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ed forthe prospect of mountains and the view up Pleasant Valley to behad from its summit. Cobble Hill, a short distance southwest ofthe village, presents a formidable climb; but those who are will-ing to perform the little hard work necessary to reach its top willbe amply repaid by the outlook. The view from the sharp peakof Hurricane Mountain, which is easily ascended from theElizabethtown side, is one of the best high view^s to be had inthe Adirondack Mountains; second only, perhaps, to that fromWhite Face. Nowhere else can the full glory of an Americanautumn be seen in greater brilliancy than on the hillsides and inthe valley around Elizabethtown. The road to Lake Placidfollows a westerly course, running alongside the bed of a rush-ing mountain stream, and passing many lovely cascades and pools.Ascending gradually the narrowing valley, we arrive in aboutan hour at the top of Pitch-off Pass, under a noble cliff, and areat an altitude of 1,710 feet. To the right, but a short distance
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PROSPECT MOUNTAIN, SHOWING OTIS INCLINE RAILWAY. i Otis Incline Railwayand The Lake House PROSPECT MOUNTAIN, LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. Like a sentinel guarding the pass, Prospect Mountain stands at thehead of beautiful Lake George. For centuries it has stood, with itscraggy top piercing the clouds, rugged, precipitous, unknown. To-day, all is changed, and by modern invention rendered accessible,by wealth and experience beautified. Prospect Mountain looks down onscenes of loveliness that are hardly equaled on the face of the fair earth.Peerless among mountains, it stands unequaled in its rare combinationof varying scenes. It is not circumscribed as the section of a valley, norof a height that renders the landscape below a mere map, but a mountainpeak among other mountains, which, from its coign of vantage, com-mands a scene of greater variety than any other outlook on the Americancontinent. A little village nestles restfully at its foot; a white beach circlesaway to the farther side, past the

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