Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-12
Works of Nature"

EDITOR FREEMAN "A writer in your paper of
July Goth, under the above caption, speaks of
the grandeur of "Old Mansfield" and the
ecstasy of those who have visited its summit,
while describing its lofty and sublime prospects.
But it shall be the aim of the present writer.
while he would not detract aught from your
correspondents description of mountain scene
ry, to call attention to another summit, which
ior perspective scenery cannot be equaled in
Vermont, if in the world
There is lying partly in each of the towns of
Addison, Bridport, and Weybridge, small
Mountain called " Snake Mountain" Take a
stand on the northwestern part of this Noun
tain, in clear day, and the eye will take in
the whole range of the Adirondack Mountains
from the Hudson to Canada Line, rich in min
eral ores. Lake Champlain is visible almost
its entire length, One of the steamers that
move SO life-llke may be seen soon after leaving
Whitehall, and followed with the naked eye
till lost in the distance north of Burlington
and Plattsburgh, except while passing around
Mt Independence, in Orwell, and few other
high points of land. Lake George is seen in
the distance, while with the aid of history the
observer may carry himself back to the time
when its blue waters We're disturbed by the hos
tile armies of the old French war. Ticonderoga,
Crown Point, and the bay where Arnold burn
nd tha - III L
Revolutionary incidents connected with those
stirring times, and the more recent victory of
McDonnough, at Cumberland Head, are spread
out as on picture before him.
Were it not for a small growth of timber,
| the observer would have but to turn round and
the valley of Otter Creek from its mouth to
almost its source, presents itself, dotted with
he villages Of Vergenncs, Bristol, New Haven,
Middlebury and Salisbury, with the SPLEEN
did monument erected at Weybrdge to the
memory of Silas Wright, would all be seen at
one view, and the right bounded by the Green
Mountains on the East. Yet Burlington, SO
graphically described as the perfection of beau
ty in scenery, by the Honorable Member who
represented her in the Extra Session of the
Legislature, is hid by small hill in Charlotte.
Should the observer be of more literary
taste, he would call to mind the description
given (by one of Montpelier's talented sons) of
the " Green Mountain Boysf" and recollect that
it was to the rendezvous under Snake Noun
tain, where Col. Allen and Charles Warning
ton repaired after their famous escape from the
soldiers and Tories at Captain Hendee's, and
the place where the New York Justice and Sur
veyor applied the beech-seal to each other SO
nanfully. Also the scenes which took place at
the Lower Falls, and the Cave of that wonder
fnl woman, Widow Story, would be in vivid
recollection, while these places would be in full
view
The writer, in company with surveyor and
some others, was called to explore mile or two
of this Mountain, year or so ago, and while
thus engaged, he counted more than twenty
Churches, all, or nearly all Of which might be
seen from one point, were it not for the growth
of timber alluded to above.
SNAKE MOUNTAIN.