Excerpt from Twilight Hours in the Adirondacks: The Daily Doings and Several Sayings of Seven Sober, Social, Scientific Students in the Great Wilderness of Northern New York, Variously Versified in Seven Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven Lines I should be happy to have you join a party Of friends, to spend a month in the wilds Of the Adirondacks for scientific investigation, physical recuperation, and mental recreation. Will you come prepared to entertain the party one evening, at least, on the subject which you consider your Own peculiar province? All the minor necessaries, - transportation, provisions, guides. And so forth, -will be faithfully attended to by myself; and you will be expected at Crown Point on the the tenth of August next. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.