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find the banks suddenly approach each other somthat there was hardly room in which to turn the canoe.
 The sensations which came over us as we looked at each other, our eyes saying, "This is certainly not the Raquette", we shall never forget. I had no maps whatever of this particular region and we had not clearly understood our fried's directions. He had said that the Raquette would be the third stream after passing a stream which flowed into the Cold River under a tree-stump. It was easy for us to pick out a stream under a tree-stump and into the third stream thereafter the Cold River seemed to empty. We were dumbfounded therefore to find this this stream narrow up and turned back and went the other way. Finally we passed a stream which was obviously that meant by our friend and soon after swung into the Raquette. It was very easy to see how we had gone astray. It is the same old story as on trails in the woods. You go along a narrow trail which leads into a broader one at an angle. In returning you keep to the broad one, neglecting to turn off at the narrower trail. In such cases you should put a leaf or a branch in the broad trail at the juncture point.
 The Raquette from Long Lake to the Cold River is fairly narrow. With the influx of this latter river, the Raquette becomes broader. We did not notice this on our first trip and coming back, kept to the broader turn and went up the Cold River. A rough sketch will serve to show our movements:

[[image - drawing of river with multiple inlets labeled "Cold River," "Raquette River," "Wrong Stream with Tree," "Stream which narrowed" "Stream with Tree," Arrow points left labeled "Current"]]