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41.
Saturday, August 15.
  There are three carries in this portion of the Raquette River, the long one at the commencement, a short one of a quarter mile around Buttermilk Falls, and one of about a halfa mile farther on. By 8;30 we had made these two latter carries and were at the entrance to Long Lake. 
  Long Lake is, as its name indicates, a long,narrow lake about 16 miles in length and never more than half a mile in breadth, running from south-west to north-east. Five miles down the lake on the east side is the village of Long Lake Landing. A good road, coming from Blue Mountain Lake and running along the east shore, makes this portion of Long Lake fairly well populated. At the settlement however the road turns due east leading to Newcomb and the Champlain country so that the remaining eleven miles of the lake is more or less wild. 

[[image with underlined caption (Long Lake)]]

Many persons climb Marcy by this route and in fact we had at first intended to do so. You reach Long Lake Landing wither as we had done or by the Blue Mountain Lake road, take a wagon over to Tahawas, about eight miles beyond Newcomb, ascend the Hudson at this point, and then follow the Opalescent River up to Marcy. A friend of mine described to me a walking trip from Rochester to the top of Marcy partly via this route.