Up at 8:15. Not a cloud in the sky, and very little wind. Breakfast,- oatmeal, fried bullheads, bread, and coffee. Broke camp at ten o'clock and pulled across the river and went up into the meadows to watch for deer. I guess we were a little too fashionable in our rising hour, however, for none of them put in an appearance. A likely enough place for deer, nevertheless, and we saw many hoof-prints.

Got away at eleven, and by twelve had covered the last five miles of the Raquette and reached Stony Creek. This is to be recognized by a log-bridge in plain sight from the Raquette. It was a Brown's Tract Inlet with a current thrown in, and a current that made us work a good hour to cover the three miles to the Stony Creek, or Spectacle Ponds. These, three in number, we traversed at one-thirty and at two pulled up on an island in the second pond mentioned to us as a likely camping spot by the Raquette Falls man who gets 25c. per loaf for his bread. It was too sunny-looking, however, and at two-thirty we decided to push on for Upper Saranac.