Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 42309-h.htm or 42309-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42309/42309-h/42309-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42309/42309-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/americaj04cookrich Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). The Title Page and Table of Contents for this book refer to it as Volume IV. The page and chapter numbering is consistent with this being the second half of the previous volume (whose title page says it is Volume III but whose Table of Contents refers to it as Volume II.) Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. [Illustration: _Brandt Lake, Adirondacks_] _Edition Artistique_ The World's Famous Places and Peoples AMERICA by JOEL COOK In Six Volumes Volume IV. Merrill and Baker New York London THIS EDITION ARTISTIQUE OF THE WORLD'S FAMOUS PLACES AND PEOPLES IS LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND NUMBERED AND REGISTERED COPIES, OF WHICH THIS COPY IS NO. 205 Copyright, Henry T. Coates & Co., 1900 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME IV PAGE BRANDT LAKE, ADIRONDACKS _Frontispiece_ MONUMENT TO JONATHAN EDWARDS, STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. 256 OLD FORT TICONDEROGA 290 WATKINS GLEN 362 IN THE THOUSAND ISLANDS, ST. LAWRENCE 412 CHAUDIÈRE FALLS, ST. LAWRENCE 450 MONTCALM'S HEADQUARTERS, QUEBEC 474 A GLIMPSE OF THE BERKSHIRE HILLS. XI. A GLIMPSE OF THE BERKSHIRE HILLS.