Chapter I

The Catskill Mountains—South Peak Mountain—A thunder
storm—Midnight on the mountains—Sunrise—Plauterkill
Clove—Peter Hummel—Trout fishing—Stony Clove—The Kauterskill
Fall—The Mountain House—The Mountain Lake

CHAPTER II.

A spring day—The sky—The mountains—The streams—The
woods—The open fields—Domestic animals—Poetry—The poultry
yard

CHAPTER III.

The Corn Planting Bee

CHAPTER IV.

Lake Horicon—Sketches of its scenery—Information for
anglers—Sabbath Day Point—War memories—The insect city—Death
of a deer—Rogers’ Slide—Diamond Island—The snake
charmer—Snake stories—Night on Horicon

CHAPTER V.

The Scaroon country—Scaroon Lake—Pike fishing by
torchlight—Trout fishing—Lyndsay’s Tavern—Paradox Lake

CHAPTER VI.

The Adirondac Mountains—Trout fishing in the Boreas River—A
night in the woods—Moose Lake—Lake Delia—The Newcomb
Farm—Mount Tahawus—The Indian Pass—Lakes Sanford and
Henderson—The McIntyre iron works

CHAPTER VII.

John Cheney, the Adirondac hunter—Some of his exploits

CHAPTER VIII.

Burlington—Lake Champlain—Distinguished men

CHAPTER IX.

Stage coach—The Winooski—The Green Mountains—The ruined
dwelling—The White Mountains—The Flume—A deep pool—The Old
Man of the Mountains—The Basin—Franconia Notch—View of the
mountains—Mount Washington—The Notch Valley

CHAPTER X.

Montreal

CHAPTER XI.

Quebec

CHAPTER XII.

A sail down the St. Lawrence—Sword-fish chasing a whale

CHAPTER XIII.

The Saguenay River—Storm picture—The Hudson’s Bay
Company—Eminent merchant—The Mountaineer
Indians—Tadousac—Ruin of a Jesuit establishment

CHAPTER XIV.

The salmon—Several adventures

CHAPTER XV.

Seal hunting on the St. Lawrence—The white porpoise

CHAPTER XVI.

The Esquimaux Indians of Labrador

CHAPTER XVII.

The Habitans of Canada

CHAPTER XVIII.

The Grand Portage into New Brunswick—Lake Timiscouta—The
Madawaska River

CHAPTER XIX.

The Acadians

CHAPTER XX.

Sail down the Madawaska—The Falls of the St. John

CHAPTER XXI.

The Hermit of Aroostook

CHAPTER XXII.

The River St. John

CHAPTER XXIII.

The Penobscot River

CHAPTER XXIV.

Moosehead Lake and the Kennebeck River

CHAPTER XXV.

A fishing party on the Thames—Watch Hill—Night adventures