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the camp and to keep the driving rains out. The roof is shingled and slopes to the rear to allow the water to run off. It is quite the custom on the civilized lakes to invite your friends to an "open camp fire". A congenial crowd of some ten or fifteen people gather together, pop-corn is made, marshmallows are toasted, stories told, mandolins are touched up, and songs are sung. A great roaring fire is burning meanwhile. Many people sleep in their open camps, it being a much nearer approach to the regular Adirondack life than ordinary houses.

[[image-Hart lake - Caption reads [[underline]] Hart Lake [[/underline]]

This camp at Clear Lake was one of the best I have ever seen. I presume it was once a part of the hotel and being across the lake, was not visited bybthe disastrous fire. We cooked luncheon at the fireplace and were strongly tempted to laze there during the the afternoon and spend the night. The view across the lake was one of the finest we saw on the whole trip, those from mountain tops alone excepted. There is a continuous line of high mountains, far enough away so that the detail of the trees does not stand forth but yet near enough to black and massive rather than blue and dim. The accompanying photograph looking toward Sentinel Range and Little McIntyre I consider gievs the most accurate portrayal of Adirondack scenery of any I took.

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