New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-03
L etters from 1hetoid Man of the Mo.;utain,'
SCMBSE SIX.

FRrEsD TRIsuSE: have writ you about The
Notch here. They call it Notch. every body
Now YOU Il, may be- think it is one-s small cnt
like such as gu make in a stick, or so-ct. u notch
Us you m.y say. But it is n, 50. i is = aay thing
small. the mouutsin passage here do Mt know
why they should call i; by so little name-a Thing
40 bis-withou; it is 10 make il seem the bigger
When thing is not very big in itself, they some
times call il by great name, to make 1t up. We
heard Of little people standing tip,oe hen they
smoke. 10 appear tall and make themselves think
thew tcere TALL and OF grea, people STOPPING and
irving 10 seem small make other folks teel al
home when they were about. II may be they call
the Great Way through the Frsnconia Mountains,
by the litre name of Notch on some such ground
But friend Tribune it is no notch. Why, the two
sides of 1.-THE CARES Of it. they say, chopping
wood cutting down a calf '-t,cGrt. like enough
the cal-es of the Notch are two mighty mountain
sides, 10 which the slopes OF the biggest Pyramids
on the Nile are mere noch-sides boy cuts IN his
willow whistle Notch friend Tribune, you go
down here and stand back Of the Lafayette House
they call it, the great new Tavern they are putting
up down between the two ponds here-tor there Is
of en- heads the Pemigewasseit River, tho other
the wild Ammonoosuck. One river runs right
South the other right North, and goes into the
River Connecticut, and after running do nj know
how far falls a; last into strip Of salt water by the
name of the Long Island Sound. Ii you know the
geography, friend Tribune you may know where
abouts it is. Well, down between these pords
right in the throat and narrows, as we may say, OF
the Notch they re putting up great Tavern House
a hundred and fifty foot long, for folks 10 put up at
who come to see the Notch-a purpose to see it
and some folks tina, lives in it. You would hardly
call it notch that had such tavern in the bottom
of it, and wide highway running along beside it,
and glorious piece of woods by the side OF the
road, all hard wood-the Rock NAPLES, and The
Beeches and the great Notch Birches. You never
saw such Birches grow, friend Tribune, as stand
here in the Notch. As | was saying, you go out
back behind the Tavern House there and just look
up Not up Great Haystack--for you can't deSin
10. What you see is nothing but the under Pinning
of the old Mountain before you come to the bottom
of his side where il begins to be one of the sides OF
the Notch You look up there, thousand feet,
sheer Upright up and down like wall, or the
underpinnng of a buidiDg--straight up as the side
of n house The Mason that laid that underpinnlng,
friend Tribune built the everlasting Hills and made
The World See the shelf that juts out over the
top Of the wall And see the spruces, growing all
the way o. anchored in the crevices and seams OF
the precpce tier above tier Of EN-, the tops OF one
coming up to the roots Of the others clinglng close
as though they afraid they should fall, ike the
eagle lnters on the crags of the Orkne,s. Look
I'D there friend Tribune, 10 what do nj Ofgin 10
be totcard going up the great, gray headed Nom
tain. and see if you'd thiuk OF u notch Why the
bottom OF the cut, TO get into It, Is wide
enough for an army to pass through in Loose array
and with spread ensigns marching. O'd bonn
parte, if he d found such passage through the
Alps he crossed need MT have made the fuss he
did about IT, or the other little fellow that crossed
there before him, going all the way from Carthage
TO see the city of Rome. You d think you vas
any where but in notch, and yet they tell me IL
looks from distance exactly like one. cut in the
Ridge of blue mountain. Come TO get TO It, II
looks more like m open gateway part OF the
Ridge broke off at one end and swung half round on
the other. like half open gate. A great wall, tall
er than any they ever laid in China, run once as
looks right across the pa-sage-trom the North
East-from the w he Hills which was part OF H.
right along here by The Haystack, along TO Moose
hillock and so on South West Old hearsarge and
the Great Monadnuck parts OF H. and seem as
il they had been left standing when The main wa!
had been taken away Here gate way was made
in it and The gate swung round halfway open TO the
North East Lis wide enough friend Tribune Tor
the nations. And il 5 a gate never II be shut 10
again. You need nj eeatrad going through IT. that
the gate will swing to- And is lone they II ever
take toll at as they tell me they do on some OF your
roads at the gates. Make man pay for travelling
alfred man It would be pretty spot you TO come
10, friend Tribune and put al the Lafayette House
day or Two in the hot months. You might 'ake
your shhook and line along with you. for they say
there Is glorious trouts in the AmmaRoosuck fono'
and boats on it. Though guess would n bring
the hook and line. on the whole. guess d let the
trou,s be- lis cool. pretty, shady place Tor them
10 toe woodland clear water and lie must Oe
pleasant 20 the spotted creatures there. would
bring any fsh.nes. There isn't any trout' Iney
tell me- in the other Pond The outlet runs 50 steep
they saw the trouts never could ge, up, and they are
the sprves, fish tha, swims. Pity somebody would
n, bring live ore up and put him into the Pond
i,s place the ,routs love 50 well. couple OF them
One would be lonesome there alone.
Lafayette House-,hey call the tsvern-after
the same old Frenchman they named the bridge tor,
told you Of down in Plymouth And if they d
stopped with naming their bridges and taverh-
houses after him should nj have cared But they
undertook o name The mountains after him. Friend
Tribune II little jealous for the mountains. m
akin 10 them myself. m willing they should name
the mountains-name EN- once-when they first
behold them, but not name them over again. The
frs, people that ever get sight at en- N willing
they should give them name. They called my
neighbor peak here, :" Great Haystack, but about
the time this Frenchman came over they undertook
10 pane il over again. don't know but we told
YOU Of il, friend Tribune, shouldn't De surprised
had. for am getting old. They called it Mount
|. afay cite the stupid creatures. guess they d
beep drinking. Finally l know they had. see
-, VIA, ,bev vran, m on to the mountain, par