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 *stantiate this, the one shore which is more depressed forms an outlet for the water after it has risen to a certain height and from which issues a gurgling brook. In times of drought the water recedes and the brook ceases to flow."

"Maratanza" she mused, "another of your beautiful Indian names."

"Yes," replied Mr. De Vere, "Lake Maratanza was recorded as such in the old capital of Ulster County over one hundred years ago, and derived its name from a Delaware squaw who, with her little papoose, was drifting idly over the surface of the lake in a birch-bark canoe when the first white man came to its shores. Suddenly her dark-eyed mate concealed among the bushes near cried out: 'Maratanza, white man's come!'

"'Indian ghosts are all about us,   And 'tis whispered 'mong the pines:  Maratanza's shade still wanders    O'er the lake in cloudy lines.'"

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