"Who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast Amid its gay creation hues like her's? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows?" But after all, the great Adirondack forests, vast and trackless, much of them in their primitive wildness, are to the visitor possibly the grandest of the charms of this weird region. The "Great North Woods" still exist as the primeval forest on many square miles of these broad mountains and deep valleys, recalling in their solitude and grandeur William Cullen Bryant's _Forest Hymn_: "The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication." CROSSING THE EMPIRE STATE. XIII. CROSSING THE EMPIRE STATE. The Mohawk Valley -- Cohoes and its Falls -- Occuna's Death -- Erie Canal -- De Witt Clinton -- New York Central Railroad -- Mohawk and Hudson Railroad -- Schenectady -- Union College -- Amsterdam -- Fort Johnson -- Sir William Johnson -- Johnstown -- The Iroquois or Six Nations -- Senecas -- Red Jacket -- Cayugas -- Onondagas -- Oneidas -- Tuscaroras -- Mohawks -- Joseph Brant -- The Noses -- Little Falls -- Herkimer -- Utica -- Classic Names -- Rome -- Trenton Falls -- Lake Ontario -- The Lake Ridge -- Black River -- Cazenovia Lake -- Oneida Lake -- Oneida Community -- Oswego River -- Oswego -- Onondaga Lake -- Syracuse -- Salt Making -- Syracuse University -- Otisco Lake -- Skaneateles Lake -- Owasco Lake -- Auburn -- William H. Seward -- Cayuga Lake -- Ithaca -- Fall Creek -- Cascadilla Creek -- Taghanic Falls -- Cornell University -- Ezra Cornell -- John McGraw -- Seneca Lake -- Havana Glen -- Watkins Glen -- Geneva -- Hobart College -- Seneca River -- Keuka Lake -- Penn Yan -- Hammondsport -- Canandaigua Lake and Town -- Canisteo River -- Hornellsville -- Painted Post -- Corning -- Chemung River -- Elmira -- Genesee River -- Portage Falls -- Genesee Level -- Mount Morris -- Council House of Cascadea -- Geneseo -- Rochester and its Falls -- Sam Patch -- Medina Sandstones -- Lockport -- Chautauqua Lake -- Chautauqua Assembly -- Pennsylvania Triangle -- Erie -- Perry's Victory -- Captain Gridley's Grave -- Dunkirk -- Buffalo -- Sieur de la Salle and the Griffin -- Grain Elevators -- Prospect Park -- Fort Porter -- Fort Erie -- Niagara River -- Grand Island -- Niagara Falls -- Niagara Rapids -- Father Hennepin's Description -- Charles Dickens -- Professor Tyndall -- Anthony Trollope -- Geological