Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1837-10-19
b"ushs OF "olher days" like the tabled tow
ers OF Tough Ncash.

efs OF Tough Ncagh,
Gin the waves beneath you shining"
The lake, too like another " h,ch the music
Dreaming verse OF Moore has immorlaized
That lakes whose gloomy shore,
| Skyiark never warblcs DER"
is said never 10 be RULED hy the din OF sw al
lows wing, nor 10 reflect the form OF the ca
gle that sails round the mountain pinnac,c.
near it. Sour guide told us, with solemn Wis.
oge, ibatthe wld-decr, even when most hot
~ pursued, would not take Ia this gloomy
water; myriads, of lizards, which swarmel
IN II near tho shore, appeared TO lac the only
tenants oil The mysterious pool. The account
"i MS origin is nvt less peculiar The spot
which The ,arn now occupies rs said 10 have
been originally deep hollow or mountsin
glen, with one small marshY spot AT the bot =
tom. Ii was heavily wooded, and being COM
pletely sheltered from The winds, the early
settlers of the country, whose cattle browsed
upon the mountains, would resort to this
COW lent place for The purpose of''salIrng"
Them, at the usual season and il is from
this that The term "Salt Pond - is derived,
as the water IS not at all brackish AT the
lapse OF several years, they observed TINT The
ienny spot at the bottom al The dell gradual
iy increased in size, until the whole level
spring would here and there ooze through
The mats shy surface, till at last il was cover
ed with waior. The wild flowers that sfot
rankly above The moist margin, were soon
alter tossing their leaves upon The strange
element; the still taller form upon The hill
side was next invaded and then the tassil of
the weeping birch, and the white blossoms
OF the fringe tree, hoated upon the bosom OF
The swelling tide. Al last the boughs of an
Gent oaks began to DIP, while the rising
wave still mounted higher and higher, til!
The cone oil the loitiesi pine was beneath the
surface OF the lake, whose new horn pillows
rIppled against the mountain pnnacles a.
round.
novi man,ana cacumina fluc>
tus."
The outlet of this curious sheet Of water is
now gap IN the mountain side, where a
stream escapes over a mill dam. The
absence OF fish in the pond thus formed will
sufficiently accouDi for its moi being frequent
ed by wild fowl and the fact of The hunted
deer's not taking here 10 the water, is easily
explained Ivy the embarrassment which the
submerged trees would offer TO his swim
ming. Besides the lake Of ths Salt Pond
Mountain, in Virginia, there is one vpon the
white mountains of y. Hampshire, and sew
erai upon tie most elevated islands of our
great western lakes, which have attracted the
notice of the scientific. But our readers who
are anxious 10 see such curiosity, need not
cross the a lleghanes To beholdit, while Long
Island can boast her Runcencomon, and
Rockltnd sends us ice from the top OF the
Palisades.
We have visited FIVE lakes upon nouns
ta'ns, within as many rifles OF West Point,
either OF which, though not so peculiar, is as
beautiful as the famed Salt PoLd of Virginia;
and the Hudson draws its chief resources
from hundred such lakes, which may he
countedupon The lofty mountains OF Hamilton
and Essex, in The state OF New York
~ T. Mirror.