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Excerpt from Legends and Poetry of the Hudson Mountains and little hills, impelled by curiosity, had come from the East and the West to see this strange phenomenon, and either attracted. By each other's beauty, or loving the music of the water, had willingly remained upon its banks. To find this wenderful fountain, the warriors were willing to encounter any perils and. Endure any hardships. Every little lake in the North Woods which found an outlet in the river was 'visitediwith a zeal and eagerness which gives the blush to modern explorers; every trickling rivulet was tasted, but the clear cold water only. Laughed merrily in their faces and sweetly kissed their parched lips as they stooped to drink of its purity. Up the tribu tary streams, far into the land of the Mohawks, almost to the hunting grounds of the Oneidas up the rapid Sacandaga to beautiful Lake Pleasant, mirroring in its sleeping waters the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.