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RM2AXA3D1–The home of Cooper and the haunts of Leatherstocking . , July 29, 1871: One bright October afternoon eighty years ago, as thesun was drawing lengthened shadows over the landscap(bathing in rich autumnal light the hills which surroundthe limped waters of Otsego Lake, came around the baseof Mount Vision a lumbering family coach, bearing, withits attendant vehicles, the founder of Cooperstown and hishousehold to their new home. All the glorious beauties ofthe changing foliage, which have since ciiarmed so manythousands who have visited this still rural retreat, werein their virgin splendor; and
RM2ANCM3C–The American annual of photography . Rensselaer and occupied by a historical society, is in thetown. Canajoharie Creek, flowing through a deep gorge overan exposed rocky bed, will render unnecessary your contem-plated trip to the Rhine. Now we will return to the town of Herkimer and takeanother trolley across lots to Cooperstown. If you do notbelieve that Otsego Lake (Figure 3) is beautiful, read theDeerslayer. Cooper loved it and transplanted that love to 263 his books, so that every foot of this country breathes with thespirit of Cooper. Leatherstocking Falls, Fairy Spring, thesource of the
RM2ANBFA1–A primer of American literature . teem. The Spy (1821) founda multitude of admirers, and was republished inEurope in many translations. This story, as wellas The Pioneers^ issued the next year, was thor-oughly national, and Cooper thenceforward occu-pied as his own the field of wild life in the West.His novels were full of romantic interest, andshowed the public that American scenery and lifefurnished as good a foundation for fiction as thecastles of Europe. The Last of the Mohicans (1826)is one of the best of the remarkable group of storiescalled the Leatherstocking Tales. Cooper wasAmerican
RM2AXA19F–The home of Cooper and the haunts of Leatherstocking . locity when disturbed, but hid-ing instantly, with instinctive shyness, in their gravelbeds. Whilst with the salmon trout spawn, which bearrough usage, the mortality has been only about one percent., amongst the bass eggs, which seem to be of anentirely different and far more sensitive structure, it hasbeen vastly greater. A very careful record, how«ver, ofthe daily losses, enables us to predict, with safety, thatat the end of twenty days (when the jjcriod of incuba- 20 THE HOME OF COOPER AXD tion ceases) there will remain alive, in the ha
RM2AXA35H–The home of Cooper and the haunts of Leatherstocking . a natural terrace oftlie bank. Away west stretched the calm plane of theOtsego, narrow like a river (and, indeed, of the averagebreadth of the Hudson, I should say); beautiful, uncom-monly beautiful mountain shores shutting it in, and theslopes on the far side charmingly pictured with cultiva-tion. A lakes mirror was never set in a prettier encadre-ment by the frame-making eddies of the retiring deluge, THE HAUNTS OF LEATHERSTOCKING. 15 and it is so situated, by tlie way, tliat its entire re-gild-ing, bv the sunsets, is visiblo from every
RM2AXA04W–The home of Cooper and the haunts of Leatherstocking . to heep a first class Re-sort, for the variety of their menu, the excellence oftheir cuisine, and the general attentioiv to the comfortsand wants of their guests. IMPROVEMENTS. During the Spring of 1872 they have enlarged theirDining Room one third-, added a Gentlemens SmohingRoom, a Writing Room, and two pleasant Public Roomsfor the Ladies, besides additional Sleeping Apartments. RATES OF BOARD. Board, transient, $Ii. per day; during June, from415 to $20 per week; during July, from $20 to $25;during August, $25 per week, and in September
RM2AXA2YN–The home of Cooper and the haunts of Leatherstocking . j of a Naturalist in England published in1852 ; Rhyme and Reason of Country Life, and Pages andPictures—has given, in the first named work, a pleasingdescription of Lake Otsego. Our own highland lake, shesays, can lay no claim to grandeur; it has no broad ex-panse, and the mountains about cannot boast of any greatheight, yet there is a harmony in the different parts ofthe picture which gives it much merit, and which mustalways excite a lively feeling of pleasure. The hills area charming setting for the lake at their feet, neither solofty a
RM2AXA2TJ–The home of Cooper and the haunts of Leatherstocking . ^^r ^. i:nimork coopkh THE HAUNTS OF LEATHERSTOCKING. 17 No book, wo feel coufideut, has ever been published inthis country containing such a store of information of arural character so charmingly narrated, and at the sametime embodying such positive facts, as Miss Coopers Bu-ral Hours. It is written in a journal form, and showsthe writer to be a close observer of nature in all hervarious moods. As a hand-book—not a guide-book—tothe thoughtful minded who may visit Oooperstown itwould prove a source of gratification. We find much in it whic
RM2AXA0W4–The home of Cooper and the haunts of Leatherstocking . n—save only the nameof the man who gave thee to the world, the man whosegrave is fitly made near the shores of the Haunted Lake. 0, Haunted Lake, from out whose silver fountainsThe mighty Susquehanna takes its rise;0, Haunted Lake, among the pine-clad mountains,Forever smiling upward to the skies— Thrice blest art thou in every curling wavelet,In every floating water lily sweet—From the old Lion at thy northern boundary,To fair Mount Vision sleeping at thy feet. A masters hand hath painted all thy beauties;A masters mind hath peopled all t
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