Excerpt from A Wonderland of the East, Comprising the Lake and Mountain Region of New England and Eastern New York: A Book for Those Who Love to Wander Among Beautiful Lakes and Rivers, Valleys and Mountains or in Places Made Famous by Historic Men and Events; To Which Is Added an Afterword on the Worth-While in This Wonderland of the East, With Some Suggestions to Mot This is a book of travelogues of sundry motor-car journeys, during four successive seasons, through the woods and the valleys, alongside the rivers and the lakes, and among the hills and the mountains of Eastern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut, with a side tour through the Finger Lake district of Central New York. It has much to say about the scenery and a little about the history of this fascinating region, and an effort has been made to de scribe the former as it really is and, in the latter, to be accurate in the brief outlines given. Let it be noted that I speak of a region and not te gions. This region, then, though it politically embraces all of the state of Vermont and parts of five other states, is, in the unity of its lake and mountain character, one country; hence the sub-title of the book is - not The Lakes and Mountains of Eastern New York and New England, which would emphasize its political divisions; but The Lake and Mountain Country of Eastern New York and New England, which stresses its unity. In physical geography, it should be marked off as a dis tinct region, - one country, as, I think, the Creator intended it to be considered when he fashioned it. In the first chapter, I submit the reasons why this lake and mountain country may justly be looked upon as a Wonderland, A Wonderland of the East. 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.