The True Northerner

The Adirondacks.
A board of surveyors, under direction of Mr. Colvin, Commissioner of Parks of the State of New York, has just completed a survey of the Adirondack wilderness. Mr. Colvin's report, which is just published, shows that the public has long been in error regarding the source of the Hudson river. The river rises, not as has hitherto been supposed, in Lakes Colden and Avalanche, but in a little pond way up in a rift between Skylight Mountain and Gray's Peak, 4,293 feet above tide-water, the loftiest source of any stream in the State. In fact, all existing maps, compiled from the notes of tourists and the statements of hunters or guides, are egregiously incorrect. Level plains are represented where snow-capped peaks abound, and the discoveries of lakes and streams, before unknown or wrongly described, are legion. Commissioner Colvin's report mentions the fact that the region is gradually losing its small settlements of hunting population, and that for reasons unknown the finest forests are slowly dying, and closes by the suggestion that the Adirondacks are to be the source of New York city's water supply.