Historical Sketches of Franklin County and Its Several Towns, With Many Short Biographies (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Historical Sketches of Franklin County and Its Several Towns, With Many Short BiographiesAdirondack Mountains* take their name from a tribe of the Algonquins, whom the French called Montagnais, and the woods and waters which in after years afforded so rare sport to white lovers of the rod and gun, and later still became a resort of pleasure and fashion for troops of summer idlers, and a sanatorium O'f blessed potency for the sick, were aforetime the deer-hunting and beaver - trapping grounds of the Algon quins and the Iroquois. But that seems to have been all, for the permanent lodges of these peoples were elsewhere, save for the possible exception of some very remote occupation by them or their predecessors of the vicinity of St. Regis. Here, on the east bank of the river of the same name, near its confluence with the St. Lawrence, may still be distinguished what some antiquarians believe to be an ancient Indian burial mound - probably made (if made at all except by nature) by Indians antedating the discovery by Columbus. AS a matter of fact there are few burial mounds east Of Ohio.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.