Natural lee Houses. 175 
An instance of this kind has however recently come to our 
ts 
Ice-House,* is situated in about 42 degrees of north lati- 
tude, nearly twenty miles from the sea and at the elevation 
of probably not more than two hundred feet above its level. 
he country is a part of the secondary trap region of Con- 
necticut,t and is marked by numerous distinct ridges of 
green stone, which present lofty mural a and from 
their number, contiguity and parallelism 
narrow proenntons defiles, filled more ‘or — with frag- 
various sizes from that of a hand-stone, 
to that of a cncuaind These apnea are ote detritus ie 
debris of these mountains, and every one in the least 
quainted with such re - knows how vale they aed 
abound with similar ru 
In such a defile, ie natural Ice House in question is 
situated. On the south western side, there is trap ridge 
of naked perpendicular rock, which, with the sloping ruins 
at the base, appears to be four hundred feet high; the par- 
allel ridge which forms the other side of the defile is proba- 
bly not over forty feet high, but, it rises abruptly on the eas- 
tern side, and is covered by other wood, which occupies 
the narrow hing also. or valley is_ moreover, abakeds 
Pe _ conti 
under these rocks. Many of mee have ae there for 
ages, as appears from the fact that small trees, (the largest 
that the s scanty soil, accumulated * ata centuries ean 
+A convenient point of departure to visit this natural Ice House 
& Inn of Dr. Isaac Hough in Meriden. This inn is the usual dining oe 
tween New-Haven and Hartford, and the very intelligent and respecta- 
ble man by whom it is kept, will cheerfully di enquiring traveller, 
or furuial him with The dis is not over two miles eri- 
den Meeting-Ho re is ne: same a wild r 
pass gh the the mountains which is well worth seeing ; it is 
wh in the vicinit the 1 of Cat Hole. 
kno ty the 
ot Be Sa of which isgiven in the Four between Hartford and Quebec, 
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