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Updated: May 2, 2025
I knew what I was talking about, because I paddled the whole distance last year, from Lake Otsego to the bay. "I suggested the Conodoguinet Creek as the best cruising ground we could find around here, and promised to get all the information about it I could. I have kept my promise.
Then it dipped into a wooded ravine, turned aside to follow a barely perceptible path through a heavy forest, and finally ended at a fording on the edge of the Conodoguinet. "Here you are, boys," cried the farmer, as he pulled up his horses within a few feet of the water. "I reckon you couldn't have a better day for your start. The creek's in prime condition, too."
It was, therefore, with much joy that I found that a trip carefully timed for another fine old hickory along the Conodoguinet an Indian-named stream of angles, curves, many trees and much beauty had brought me to the quickly passing bloom feast of this noble American tree.
The boys looked at one another incredulously and smiled. The idea of a bottomless hole in the Conodoguinet was ridiculous. At that moment an old man with bent back and white hair hobbled down the path from the road above, leaning heavily on his cane, which was his constant companion. "Good afternoon, Daddy Perkiss," exclaimed Mose Hocker. "I'm glad you come along.
"And what's more we will be the first to navigate the creek. No canoe, or boat either, has ever made the winding journey from the head waters to the mouth. It is unexplored territory, except to the farmers and a few stray fishermen. You can take your choice now. Which is it to be? The Susquehanna or the Conodoguinet?" Ned put the papers in his pocket and sat down.
"Here is a map of the Cumberland Valley on a large scale, showing the entire course of the creek, and all its windings. You can examine that at your leisure. First I want to tell you what I have learned. "Of course you knew that the Conodoguinet was about the most crooked stream in existence. We have evidence enough of that near home.
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