Litchfield enquirer., 1852-10-14
WINFIELD SCOTT,
For PresideptiQl Electors,
Mount Washington, Bash ,Pish. Sc,


 The town of Mount Washington is as quiet retreat as cvulG be desired. The habitable portion is plain or valley, be- tween two mountain ridges, and is. itself, about 2oQ0 feet above the surrounding country. Though six miles long. it has a scattered population Jf only about four hundred. The mail leaves once a week 1! Almost time enough for letter to cross the Atlantic by Collins steamer. The town is without church ed!fce, public house, store, lawyer or doctor. Although there is DO public house. my word for it Farmer Smith has his ''latch. string out" and will set before you as delicious 6 country table as king could desire; with pure milk, quite as free from chalk and ,pater as any jolted through your streets labeled "Pure Orange County" have told what this town does rot possess, and will enleayor to describe some things i, does possess. In the western part of the town is cataract, concerning which few words will prove acceptable.
 In tie year 1929 a full and interest ing history of Berkshire County was pre- pared, "by gentlemen of the county, cler> gymen and 1ayman.'' IL is work ot about five hundl ed pages. and one o' great value; yet these magnificent falls 6ured in the depths of the forest at tht southwest corner ot the State, Were, it is sald, entirely unknown to those who com piled the work, and no mention is made of them. A few years since, Miss Sedg wick called attention to them in some oI her wrlln.s. President Hitchcock, oI Amherst College, also writes that the wild and romantic scenery of this town, with mountain peak on the east, more than :hree thousand feet above the val ley of the Housatonic. and Rash Bish Falls on the west. both almost unknown ) would almost repay the lover of nature for voyage across the Atlantic"
 We spent an entire day. of alternate surprise aad delight. in roaming around these remarkable tails called, 1t is said. | by the indians, from it's dashngs-by tic euphoniors and truthful name ol Bash Blsh.
 [ As you approach the falls from the south. to the edge of the rocky prec'pice which juts out over the broad chasm, you Eseem suspended in air; you may look Edown, or cast pebble, perpeudlcula, ly 1.-two hundred feet (actual measul ement) Fin.o the barin below. The view from this point is startling and magnificent ; this point alone would repay a long jour ney. Opposite you, the river takes it's first bound of eighty feet. Dhec'ly be, low thls crag is the ''EsgIe's Nest. He,e. in a niche of the rock, to which the stout-heauted may descend. an eagle, a few years ago buI:t her nest unpolest- ed. From the basin at the fool ot the fist fall. the stream rapidly descends upon its cragged and somewhat precip. ltous bed. to the main or most beautiful fall. Here small. rude retreshmens- house, occupied during the summer months, (the only building in the vIclni- ", commands view of the cataract. Directly before the refreshment house, the opposite bank or cuff, rises. well wooded, almost perpendicula,ly. perhaps five hundred feet. By cifcuitous paths. the sure-footed may ascend to the high est point. A few rods below the main fall. rude foot-bridge is thrown over the Fchasm, which is here compressed into. a Fparrow channel. The view from the foot, bridge, both above and below. is wild and picturesque. h these prime val forests, nambetless cascades. white us the driven snow. dance from rock 10 rock. sparkling in stray sunbeams. which gleam through the thick foliage. Al this season oi the year, the stream is low and we can pass Dp through almost the entire chaGm, by occasionally climbing the bank to escape some impossible bai rieFs. It is Wandsiful how the forest liees can flourish as they do here. upon uliIns appears to be hlmosl barren rock The WintTy storms. however, severely try their superficial roots, and tee allei tree b hurled down the chasm. Immoso bouldeEa are alTewed along tho bed, many of which have evidently Iallsn with fear.