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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A group of three lakes in the Adirondack Mountains of northeast New York. They are linked by the Saranac River, which flows about 160 km (100 mi) generally northeast to Lake Champlain. The lakes are in a popular resort area.
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Lake, and thence following the usual route down the Raquette River and through Long Lake, we could reach Martin's on Saranac Lake without retracing our steps, except over the short distance from the Raquette through the Saranac Lakes, -- after breakfast, we hurriedly packed up our traps and were off as early as might be.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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We made a flying journey of inspection through the Saranac Lakes and down the Raquette River to Tupper's Lake, and then across a wild and at that day a little explored section to the head of Raquette Lake, and down the Raquette River back to the Saranacs; the party returning home and I back to the headwaters of the Raquette to spend the summer painting.
The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901
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We made a flying journey of inspection through the Saranac Lakes and down the Raquette River to Tupper's Lake, and then across a wild and at that day a little explored section to the head of Raquette Lake, and down the Raquette
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I William James Stillman 1864
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Saranac Lakes, and gave me the clue to the labyrinth, and I found on
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I William James Stillman 1864
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One of my artist friends ” S.R. Gifford, landscape painter, like myself on the search for new subjects ” had been, the year before, to the Saranac Lakes, and gave me the clue to the labyrinth, and I found on Upper Saranac Lake a log cabin, inhabited by a farmer whose family consisted of a wife, a son, and a daughter.
The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901
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