Identifier: followingtowpath00eric (find matches)
Title: Following the tow-path and through the Adirondacks awheel
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Eric, Allan, b. 1864 Junior partner Willis, Lillian S
Subjects: Eric, Allan, b. 1864 Bicycle touring -- New York (State) New York (State) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : N.E.R.G. Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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oy, also a monkey; though itmay have been another boy. We couldnt say. For most of the time we were shut in by thickwoods which covered the mountain sides risingabove us. The lake was no longer visible. Emerg-ing, temporarily, from the woods, we descended ahill, at the foot of which there stood a handsomefarmhouse. Just before we reached it the roadspanned a swiftly flowing mounlain stream. Herethe Junior Partner dismounted and called attentionto a measuredchug, chug, the sound coming fromthe bushes on the other side of the brook, where wepresently saw columns of water, several feet high,rising with every chug. This we at once recog-nized as a hydraulic ram, a most ingenious but verysimple arrangement for applying the principles ofhydraulics in compelling water, by its own weight,to force itself through pipes, up hill or in any direc-tion. A hydraulic ram will go on working day andnight, year in and year out, provided it does notfreeze up; and in a lonelv spot, its chug, chug, is(6(3)
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decidedly uncanny. The water in the stream wasso low that we were able to cross it on the rocks.After watching the water as it spouted from theram, for a few minutes, we resumed our long walk.There was very little variation in the scenery,and we continued our way steadily, riding arod or two whenever we could. Leaving theopen coun ry, we again entered the woods,climbing another mountain, and walking downthe other side. At the foot we came to adeserted hunters camp. It was a typical Adiron-dack camp, built of logs, and we stopped to take apicture of it. Over the door was the name PineCamp. Soon after we entered another clearingwhere we found anothei- farm-house where we ob-tained some rich milk, which had the efiect ofgreatly refreshing us. We passed a herd of cowsgrazing by the side of the road, and a little way be-yond we stopped while the Junior Partner took aphotograph of a distant mountain on which thesetting sun shone in great magnificence. Half amile or so along we met a family

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