Chapter I: Front Matter

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ADVENTURES OF AN ANGLER IN CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA AND THE UNITED STATES.

by

CHARLES LANMAN.

London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1848.

LONDON: Printed by Schulze & Co., 13, Poland Street.

TO
SOLOMON T. NICOLL, ESQ.

My dear Sir,

To you, in testimony of my friendship, I inscribe this little Volume.

On a pleasant morning in May last, I awoke from a piscatorial dream, haunted by the idea, that I must spend a portion of the approaching summer in the indulgence of my passion for angling. Relinquishing my editorial labours for a time, I performed a pilgrimage, which has resulted in the production of this Volume. I hope it may entertain those of my friends and the public, who have heretofore received my literary efforts with favour. The work will be found to contain a record of Adventures in the Valleys of the Hudson, St. Lawrence and St. John, and along some of the rivers of New England.

Truly your friend,
Charles Lanman.

NEW-YORK, 1847.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

CATSKILL MOUNTAINS _Page_ 2
LAKE HORICON 53
RUINS OF FORT TICONDEROGA 117
FRANCONIA NOTCH 138
FALLS OF MONTMORENCY 162
CAPE TRINITY ON THE SAGUENAY 180
FALLS OF THE ST. JOHN 242
ROBERT EGGER’S FARM ON THE AROOSTOOK 250

CONTENTS.

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 PAGE 1

CHAPTER II.
A Spring Day—The Sky—The Mountains—The Streams—The Woods—The Open
Fields—Domestic Animals—Poetry—The Poultry-yard 29

CHAPTER III.
A corn-planting Bee 43

CHAPTER IV.
Lake Horicon—Sketches of its scenery—Information for
anglers—Sabbath-day Point—War memories—The Turret
City—Death of a deer—Roger’s Slide—Diamond Island—The
snake-charmer—Snake stories—Night on the Horicon 50

CHAPTER V.
The Scaroon Country—Scaroon Lake—Pike Fishing by Torch-light—Trout
Fishing—Lyndsey’s Tavern—Paradox Lake 69

CHAPTER VI.
The Adirondac Mountains—Trout Fishing in the Boreas River—A night
in the woods—Moose Lake—Lake Delia—Mount Tahawas—Lakes
Sanford and Henderson—The McIntyre Iron Works 80

CHAPTER VII.
John Cheney, the Adirondac hunter, and some of his exploits 100

CHAPTER VIII.
Burlington—Lake Champlain—Distinguished Men 115

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 Mountain—The Basin—Franconia Notch—View of the
Mountains—Mount Washington—The Notch Valley 130

CHAPTER X.
Montreal 148

CHAPTER XI.
Quebec 155

CHAPTER XII.
A sail down the St. Lawrence—Sword-Fish—Chasing a Whale 164

CHAPTER XIII.
The Saguenay River—Chicoutimi—Storm Picture—Hudson’s Bay
Company—Eminent Merchant—The Mountaineer
Indians—Tadousac—Ruin of a Jesuit Establishment 173

CHAPTER XIV.
The Salmon—Salmon Adventures 187

CHAPTER XV.
Seal-hunting on the St. Lawrence—The white Porpoise 204

CHAPTER XVI.
The Esquimaux Indians of Labrador 212

CHAPTER XVII.
The Habitans of Canada 218

CHAPTER XVIII.
The Grand Portage into New Brunswick—Lake Timiscouta—The Madawaska
River 225

CHAPTER XIX.
The Acadians 232

CHAPTER XX.
Sail down the Madawaska—The Falls of the St. John 238

CHAPTER XXI.
The Hermit of Aroostook 244

CHAPTER XXII.
The River St. John 266

CHAPTER XXIII.
The Penobscot River 272

CHAPTER XXIV.
Moosehead Lake—The River Kennebeck 278

CHAPTER XXV.
A Fishing Party on the Thames—Watch Hill—Night Adventures 291

CHAPTER XXVI.
A week in a Fishing Smack—Fisherman—A beautiful morning
at sea—A day at Nantucket—Wreck of a ship—Night
on the Sound 308

ADVENTURES
OF AN
ANGLER.