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are along the north shore, the most prominent of which is the Seventh Lake House. To the south of the lake rises the Seventh Lake Mountain with its long sloping sides,

A paddle of two and a half miles brought us to the treacherous Seventh Lake Inlet, a channel filled with partially submerged tree stumps. To have run on one of these would have meant a tip-over. The channel is however fairly well marked by white crosses.

[[image - a black-and-white photograph of a body of water, with part of the wooden dock visible and a couple canoes with people near it on the left of the picture; glued to the right side of the page, with caption]]
[[underlined]] Seventh Lake Channel [[/underlined]]

Next came the mile's carry to Eighth Lake. About half way across this the t trail crosses whichbruns to Camp Kilkare, the famous home of Timothy L. Woodruff. By a strange coincident I met an old acquaintance of mine from Utica at the end of the carry while at the same moment my friend met a girl from Rochester. It is often so: you may live in the same city with a person and not see him for months at a time and then suddenly come across him in a little wild, out-of-the-way place.

[[image - a black-and-white photograph of a lake, partially covered by what appears to be a fingernail; glued to the left side of the page, with caption]]
[[underlined]] Eighth Lake from Foot [[/underlined]]

These two encounteres must have strangely upset us for after pad-ldling a mile and a half to the upper end, we found we had left a hatchet at the other end. This meant an additional three miles[[?]]