Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-07

Ole fight throughout East Tennessee, and his efforts
will be well responded to in August by the people
of CARTER.
Letter from Mount Washington.
FLUME House., FRAECoNIA NoTCH, n. H.
June 28th, 1857.
EDITORS PATRIOT :-Presuming that even an i'm
perfect sketch of some of the leading objects which
yearly attract 80 many visitors from all portions OF
the Globe to this section of wild and wonderful
scenery, may not be entirely devoid of interest to
your many intelligent readers, take the liberty of
merely mentioning some of those which seem to me
to deserve passing notice.
profile Rock" or, as is more Familiarity known,
"the old Man of the Mountains of which the
accompanying is a very correct sketch-although
far 6eIoao the sasanqit of the Mountain, is yet tOeUS
hundred feet almost perpendicular, above tho Pla-
cid little basin OF water at its base called Pro-
file Lake" There are only or two points from
which this shape be seen, for in passing up or
down the road, the nose and face seem to fatten,
until all resemblance entirely disappears. Tradi-
ton says the Indians frequented this spot be-
cause of the stern image which theySupposed look
ed constantly upon them and because, also, OF the
Great Spirit, which they supposed him to possess.
The whole length of the profile is near eighty feet
But on account of the distance from which you OBJ
serve it. seems to be not than eight or te1s.-
The Mountain on which it is formed is called Can
non Mountain, because of the resemblance to a
cannon, of a tremendous stone near its summit.
Another object of marvellous interest is q Echo
Lake" about half a mile distant. From noise
made near its centre, it is said, you get three dis
tinct echoes; and from very loud noise, similar to
the firing of gun the echo is great that it seems
to be the roaring of artillery The tradition of the
Indians fleeing from the spot in terror, imagining
their own terrific yelIs to be the war-whoop of the
Gods, be easily accounted for.
About four miles to the South of this lake, near
the road leading TO Plymouth N. f., is worn in
the solid rock hole seemingly thirty feet in diam
eter, and twenty-five feet deep. The water rushes
in with great force. much that its great rapid
ity has the present astonishing cavity. There
is but one outlet and that so rapid have worn
away the rock to a shape somewhat resembling
human leg and foot. This great natural curiosity is
called the basin"
After leaving the road about mile to the left,
passing on through wild and rugged gorges, you
behold sivery sheet of water running down a
smooth ledge of granite about twenty feet wide,
over which for more than hundred feet it muir
murs beautifully onward, leaping off again in its
turbulent channel.
Still further up this stream, in sublime grandeur,
you behold place known as the "Flume.n I'm
mense walls of solid Granite twenty to fifty feet iu
height, rise up on either side, in fearful wdness,
for more than three hundred feet, while through
the rugged boulders. in the awful chasm below,
flows on the impetuous current. An Immense stone
weighing many tons has rolled down from the over
hanging precipice and now hangs suspended mid
way above the rapid stream. Near by it is a well
in the solid rock said to be hundred and fifty feet
deep, from which, by some miraculous agency, a
Southern gentleman is said to have been delivered.
lis said that curiosity led him nearer the edge
than prudence dictated and hence the accident
He left for his home in New Orleans it is said dis
gusted with White Mountain scenery
cannot close without alluding to our trip to
mount Washington"
A party of eleven Ladies and Conference.-The
second OF this seasOn-rigged out in heaviest Win
ter costume, started from the 'Notch" on last Fri
day morning to make each Lis or her first ascent
and those of your readers who have made the
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We out, each on horseback, in single file, pre-.
ceeded by our guide, to see for ourselves the mag
nfcent scenery about which so much has been
sad and written. Our path led us up through deep
ravines and mountain gorges, with little to relieve
| the monotony Of the scene save now and then
murmuring rill as it rippled in limpid purity
| down the rugged sleeps, or, else the s;lyery cas-
cade as it leaped from crag to crag in wild confu
| sion. Emerging at length from the wooded recess
ses we found ourselves the top of the first peak
| from which we were enabled to look down on the
Mountains below with pleasing admiration. Rest
ing for few moments We resumed cur toiIsome-
and to the Ladies seemingly perilous-journey
| nov ascending some rugged precipice, and anon
worming our way around some craggy peak which
looked down in awful solemnity for many hundreds
of feet below. Obstacles presented themselves
afresh every step, and so formidable did they
seem that three of our party returned in dismay
| leaving eight of us to make the ascent. Pressing
slowly onward and still on, we at length reached
the summt-ten miles, making the trip in tOt1
aud a half hours. The wind blew with great VIC
lenee, and so forcible was it that it was only BY
holding on to the immense stones that we could re-
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view l ever beheld. The eye commanded the cir
conference of the entire group of mountains
Monroe, Jefferson, Pleasant Keansarge. Webster
Wiley, Adams, Madison, Lafayette, Jackson. anc
all the others-which are many.
Standing here upon the topmost peak you lool
down upon "multtudnous sea OF Peaks and
! Ridges" which extend in lengthening ranges II
aud down the land enclosing pleasant plains ant
fertile valleys; through which, ike silver threads
the rivers run, and among whose silent foundations
nestle some OF the most beautiful and lovely lakes
in the world Being admouished, however, by ouI
guide that it might be well for US to return, pro
oeeded down the Mountain about one quarter of
mile-where our horses were in waiting-and be
| ing mounted once more resumed the on Sard march
cot forgetting to gather, each OF u.s. stone,
/ SNOWFALL, or some memento 10 be held in remem
branee of the trip up Mount Washington.
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/ ~ Official Instructions have been sent 90 Gen
| aarney, who is 60 CON mand the Utah expedition
| Il Is to be composed OF The twentieth Dragons