Identifier: appletonsillustr01tadd (find matches)
Title: Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: T. Addison Richards
Subjects: United States--Guidebooks Canada--Guidebooks
Publisher: D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
n thatpart of the waters which we have al-ready passed, in the vicinity of BoltonLanding, Shelving Rock, and thence toCaldwell, though fine trout and bass arefreely caught from one end of the laketothe other. Sabbath Day Point. Emergingfrom the Narrows, on the north, weapproach a long projecting strip offertile land, called Sabbath Day Point—so named, by General Abercrombie,from his having embarked his army onthe spot on Sunday morning, after ahalt for the preceding night. The spotis remembered, also, as the scene of afight, in 1756, between the colonistsand a party of French and Indians.The former, sorely pressed, and unableto escape across the lake, made a bolddefence and defeated the enemy, killingvery many of their men. Yet, again,in 1776, Sabbath Day Point was thescene of a battle between some Ameri-can militia and a party of Indians andTories, when the latter were repulsed,and some 40 of their number werekilled and wounded. This part ofHoricon is even more charming in its -ui.
Text Appearing After Image:
l-razred. acearteaq-tol&tx of Q)rruiress,-iri.-tixzyeccri&4B ~try~VrwCCb.ajn.r,-vrvihjt Cl^rKsCfFfix:.&, of xnAlHaaxcc Court crPifmS(nafcern33irtna.offrewlb-rk. NEW YORK. 153 Garfields—Ticonderoga—New Tork to Montreal. pictures, both up and down the lake,than it is in its numerous historical re-miniscences. On a calm sunny day theromantic passage of the Narrows, asseen to the southward, is wonderfullyfine ; while, in the opposite direction,the broad bay, entered as the boatpasses Sabbath Day Point, and the sum-mer landing and hotel at Garfields,are soon to be abruptly closed on thenorth by the huge precipices of An-thonys Nose on the right, and RogersSlide on the left. This pass is not un-like that of the Highlands of the Hudsonas approached from the south. Rogers Slide is a rugged prom-ontory, about 400 feet high, with asteep face of bare rock, down Avhichthe Indians, to their great bewilder-ment, supposed the bold ranger, MajorRogers, to have passed, when they pur-su

Note About Images