Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
OLD TICONDEROGA.
A PICTURE OF THE PAST.
By Nathaniel Ha7Ohl0tue.

The greatest attraction this vicinity the old
Tcondeoga the remains which visible from the
tavern swell of land that shuts the of the lake
heights Mount Defiance and Mount Independence
familiar to all Americans history, stand prominent be
recognized though of them precisely correspond the
images excited by their In truth the whole
the interior of fortress disappointed Mount Defiance,
which pictures steep lofty and rugged HILL of ormd
aspect frownng with the grim vsage of precpe
old Tconeroga merely long and wooded ridge and bore
former PERIOD the gentle of Sugar HILL The brow
certainly difficult climb and high enough to look into
the St Glars probable however for
neplecting to occupy it. deficiency troops
already constructed rather than the supposed naccebi of
Mount Defiance singular that the French fortified this
height standing does the quarter whence they must have
looked the advance of British army.
In my the favored with the scientific
guidance of young lieutenant of recently from West
he had gained credit for great military genius
nothing what chiefly interested him. straight lines
zgzag within defence wall opposed wall and ditch
ntersecng obong squares below the surface of
huge mounds urfcoored hills of stone above it,
artificial hlocs pnetree has rooted itself and
grown tall strong, the bannestaf leveed But
my unmay glance could regularity the young
lieutenant perfectly home. He ahomed the meaning OF
every ditch and formed entire plan of the fortress from its half
obteraed lines His description Ticonderoga would be
rate peometca barren the poetry that has
clustered round decay viewed Ticondcroga place of
strength for half century where the flags of
had successfully waved and waved where
armies had struggled long ago the bones the slain
moudered had found heritage in the oraken
haun of War young West Pointer with his lectures
raven counerscarps angles and made
and hewn arranged certain regular
principles having good deal do with mathematics but nothing
at all with poetry
should have been glad of hoary veteran to oter by
perhaps, French garons and their Indian
ale-of Abercrombie, Lord Howe, and Amhersof Ethan
Aliens triumph Clair surrender The old soldier and the
old fortress would emblems of each other His "reminiscences
though vivid image of Tconderoga the lake. would har
monte gray influence of the survivor of the long
garrons though but private soldier might have
tered his chiefs comradessome from Westminster
Abbey and English chuchyards and baleheds in Europe
others their graves here in Amercaothe not few, who
lie sleeping fortress; he might have mustered them ALL
march through the ruined gateway turning their old
historic they passed Next to such companion
the best is ones fancy
M AT another alone and after rambling all the
rampas sat myself in of the roofe barracks
old French and to have occupied
three large with nete and
thsles NThe which long and all the
rest had been peaked gables The exterior walls nearly
entire gray fat unpked stones the aged strength
Of which promised long the elements other violence
81 their fall >1nnn H0rs partitions, and the
still remained