October 1912-On Lake Placid in a glance one drinks in the noblest landscape of the wilderness. Never, surely, was the spirit of winter more splendidly incarnated and throned than within this majestic sweep of hills. Five minutes drive brings one almost to the center of the lake, and, within a sudden sense of awe, one recognizes the grand sweeping lines of Whiteface rising from the further shore. While one flies over the level surface toward it, a gigantic wreath of snow has formd about the summit, and slowly descends. The sky has become overcast, a few flakes float aimlessly down, the mist of snow deepens about Whiteface, and so far to the south Marcy has alredy gone out of sight. As one turns backward the gray light becomes more vague and dim, and before the lake is half crost the storm has spred its white wings over the whole landscape. Never, certainly, was winter day more perfect than now, as one sweeps across the white bosom of Placid thru the strange new world which the snow is swiftly bilding about him.

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*Lake Placid Club used "simpler spelling in their publications.

Aurora Ramsay works in the Brewster Research Library at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown.

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