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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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the delightful features of all this part of the Catskills, andespecially here in Delaware County, on the western slope, thatone may drive in almost any direction over excellent roads andfind the greatest diversity of scenery. Seven miles southward, up Dry Brook, is Furlough Lake^where George J. Gould has erected a handsome summer resi-dence, within sight of his fathers boyhood home near Roxbury.Alder Lake, still farther south, is a private fish and game preserve,owned by a club of Kingston gentlemen, who sequestrate them-selves and their families there in midsummer, and have troutevery day. The streams which concentrate here have not onlybeen long famous for fishing, but soon after the Revolutionmade the place conspicuous by a novel accident. One autumna sudden and tremendous rainfall on the mountains createdterrific freshets in all the streams. A Western man would nowsay, There was a cloudburst and the creeks boomed. One oldfarmer was first made aware of the high water by hearing his
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THE TOUK OP THE CATSKILLS. 173 children crying in the night, and reached out of his high four-poster to find their trundle-bed all afloat. It was before harvest,and thousands of ripe pumpkins were swept down by the flood,which was spoken of ever afterward as Ihe pumpkin freshet.Stages run from Arkville daily, except Sunday, throughoutthe year: For Margaretville, 2 miles, fare 15 cents; ClarksFactory, 6 miles, fare 50 cents; Andes, 12 miles, fare $1; Delhi,26 miles, fare $1.75; Lumberville, Smiles, fare 50 cents; UnionGrove, 12 miles, fare 75 cents; Shavertown, 15 miles, fare $1;Pepacton, 19 miles, fare $1.25; and Downsville, 26 miles, fare$1.50; Lake Delaware, 20 miles, fare $1.50. The railway here turns sharply north, and ascends the EastBranch of the Delaware for a dozen miles to its source on IrishMountain, passing through a country of dairy farms, long agosettled by Scotch and Scotch Irish people, where many visitors nowfind rural entertainment. Mount Pisgali * (altitude, 3,425 fe

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