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next carry begins.q On these wilder lakes there is plainly visible the deer-line, a dark band encircling the lake at the water's edge where the deer, swimming in the water, have eaten off the bottom leaves of the trees. This dark band is of uniform height throughout its length.

A three miles' paddle due east on Forked Lake brought us to its outlet, the Raquette River. Here we had to start right in with a carry of two miles around rapids and shallows in the river. When at length we put the canoe in the water, we found exciting work ahead of us in shooting the rapids. One man now had to kneel down in the very bow of the canoe, keeping a sharp lookout for rocks, while the other was steering the boat keeping it always in the channel and away from rocks. Then the rapids pass,away, the stream flows quietly along and you relax your vigilance. Suddenly your boat shoots up on the sloping side of a rock which is invisible above the surface of the water. The only thing to indicate the existence of such a rock is a slight ripple on the water just above the rock and it is for that ripple that one must be constantly on the lookout.

[[image-photograph in upper right column -- Caption reads [[underline]] Forked Lake [[\underline]] ]]

[[image-photograph on lower left column -- Caption reads [[underline]] Rapids of the Raquette [[\underline]] ]]

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