Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-08-22

regarded myself as very comfortably lodged.
Towards morning, however, it grew cold and
having no blanket, found il necessary to change
my quarters again. The parlors in the house
were by that time vacated, so | cooliy walked
into one Of them and made myselfcomfortable on
sofa TIL | was wakened by girl coming in with
broom in her hand, Of which | have an instnc-
tive drea1--I mean of the broom, not the hand
when left for another paror and another sofa
who afforded me quiet resting place until
the sun peeping over the mountains, the outside
Of the house became more attractive than the in
side These mountain hotels are not much noted
for moderate charges, but obtained as cheap a
lodging here last night as anybody not loo eco.
nomical might expect.
To-dly we have been doing" some Of the
scenery hereabouts, which is sufficient to pay well
for all the distance we had come il we had had
no other object in coming. The Profile, or Old
Man Of the Mountain, is the most wondeyful nat
urll curiosity there is here, or that have ever
seen in nanmate nature anywhere. don't
need to describe III but that six or eight huge
rocks in the side Of mountain should be
accidentally thrown into such relationship to each
other as to form a perfect outline Of all the fea
lures Of a mans face, without doing violence to
any, is truly marvellous. The forahead, the eyes
the nose, the lips, the mouth the chin, the neck
and even the .4pomum Aioni, Apple in the throat
are as perfectly drawn as could be done by the
artists pencil. Not one is too large or too small
or 10 any way out of proportion to tho others,
but all blend harmonousy together to form a
perfect picture Of the human face. Even his
physiognomy is true to bis characteristcs--.fr firm
ness being the chief element in bis features and
the chief trait IN his characters for be has Away
adhered to bis own straightforward course, and
never been known to swerve hairs breadth from
his Original intentions. The forest below makes
becoming dress for the old man. the foliage
coming up on the neck about as high as man $
collar usually comes Such is side view Of the
OId Man Of the Mountaiuj but if you go around
for front view The stones composing the Profile
are nothing but ragged rocks, and widely scat
terd, looking no more like a human face than
the man in the moon. There is also another fg.
ure on the top Of the same mountain Of which
the face is the southeastern extremity figure
very much resembling huge piece Of field ord
nance mounted on gun carriage, from which it
used to be called Cannon Mountain, but believe
they have substituted the name of Profile Noun
tain.
Profile Lake is a small, pretty sheet just at the
foot Of the mountain. Echo Lake, half mile
distant, is very attractive on account Of the re-
verbsraton Of sound produced by the rocks be.
yond and around it, We got very good echo
Of seven or eight syllables, /. C., We would count
that number-rapdy Of c5urse-When the rocks
would take up the sound and repeat it very dis
tinc,ly. There is a small cannon which we heard
fred several times last night, and thought the
echo was quite as loud as the gun.
There are large numbers Of people here now
from the cities and from all parts Of the country
The Profile House, the largest in the Notch, car
accommodate comfortably, the proprietor tell'
me, about two hundred and fifty, bat is now lodg
ing comfortably, or otherwise over three hundred
guests.
II We do nj give out, you may expect to hear
from me again after we get farther into th'
Notch and up the mountains. N. w. &.