Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-07-13

sends forward to Nickwackett the pre-
monitions Fof his coming; the farmers
look out after cold, rainy night in au-
tumn, and zee his sides covered with
SNOW. Nor does Pittsford alone hold an
interest in this mountain it is seen from
almost any point of clear outlook in the
tract stretching twenty miles southwark
with breadth of ten miles, and is
waymark to the traveller all the way along
the creek. The iremen in Rutland have
given it's name to one of their engines,
and it belongs to them as much as to its
nearest neighbors.
Pine Hill divides Rutland into East and
West, and lifts the entire Rutland valley
ninety or one hundred feet above that of
Pittsford. An ugly, sandy hill at Center
Rutland, it becomes rough, broken, steep
pasture ground, and woodland az it
stretches northward to Sutherland Falls,
but near Pittsford its ridge line bends to
the eatward, and after stretch of mile
or thereabout, in this direction, the noun
tain character is lost and the ridge itself
depressed into the rich grazing lands for
which that part of the town is famous.
The ridge of this hill after the turn at
Sutherland Falls, seems like the back bone
of some huge animal, and the pasture
grounds contiguous seem the surface upon
the ribs, while the sleeper tanks below
are covered with woods. The beauty of
this hill is the patches of meadow, pas
ture, sugar bush and copse that cover the
gentle upper slope below the vertebral
column. These highlands are visible
from almost every part of Pittsford and
along Otter Creek, quite to the north of
| D.I.,sonJ thnoa rrnnnH q
are before TIE eye as distinct and beauti-
full picture to one standing on Chip
mans Hill as are the meadows along the
Wey bridge road.
Pico, which used to be called killing
ton Peak, and was said to be "the top of
Vermont" is visible from great part of
Pittsford over Burr Hill, q mountain in
the air, two miles probably from the
farthest point in the foreground. This
peak is probably the most symmetrical in
outline of all the Vermont mountain
points, but there are several which are
higher. From the west hills, specially
from Biddy's Knob, the three grand
peaks, Pico, Killington and Shrewsbury,
appear with the mountain chain which
binds them together, itself elevation
which dwarfs all the hills of which we
the inhabitants of Rutland county claim,
afford the sublimest mountain scenery OF
the state.
The mountain range broken, wild, al
most inaccessible to the northeast beyond
Nickwackett, has never received a name,
but is worthy of a poets description. 1t
is so rich in ravines, spurs and convolu-
tions that it is continual study as seen
from Pittsford village. Indeed its confor-
nation cannot be fully made out without
the aid of an overhanging cloud to re-
feet the light into its recesses.
This sketch, which does not iattempt to
exhaust the subject, will be closed by
simply noticing a few of the mountains
daily visible from Pittsford Windows
mountains too distant to afford the pecu-
liar rich display of mountain couferma-
ton, bat which are of interest as way
marks and as affording outlines of unsur-
passed beauty. Tinmouth Mountain
looms up pyramid perhaps twenty miles
south. Dorset Mountain with it's marble
looks like the roof of an immense cathe-
dral a point beyond and higher than
either, stretches up to catch the first
light of the morning, which suppose to
be Mount Equinox. A citizen of Pitts
ford would think it hardly fair to pass
uunotioed Bald Peak with it's natural ice
house, Long Hill and Carmel, with its
smokes from the shingle-maker's shanties,
but the interest in these is local rather
than general. G. N. b.