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[[right side - page number 34. and date below Friday, August 14.]]
[[image- photo on left side, black and white photo of edge of pond with tree fallen in water, reflection of tree line. Caption underneath photo (Brown's Tract Inlet, underlined)]]
It was but a short walk from our camping place to Brown's Tract Inlet, a slow, winding stream running from Brown's Tract Ponds to Raquette Lake. This with the Marion River, emptying into Raquette from the east, are said to be the two crookedest streams in the world. This Inlet is about five miles long by paddling although the direct distance from the carry to the lake is less than two miles. [[ image- photo on right side, text on left side. Black and white photo of pond with white man standing on the waters edge with canoe. Pond has two logs floating along with vegetation floating on back part of pond, reflections of woodlands on top of water. Caption underneath photo ( Brown's Tract Inlet) underlined]]
The flora of this stream consists mainly in Andromeda glaucophylla, Lysimachias, Typha, water lilies and water plants of the Umbelliferae Family.
We left the carry about 7:15 and were at Raquette Lake Landing, a small settlement at the end of the railroad, in about an hour. While here a terrific rainstorm came up but we pushed on after it had let up a little.
Raquette lake has a very irregular outline, great bays reaching into the shores making a shore-line of 96 miles although the lake from north tomsouth is only four miles and from east to west at
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