14 wli/\ Barnes'' Section of the Canaan Mountain^ ^c. 



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The Peak is of tolerably easy ascent from the north,* 

 but on the south the beetling crags ov ertopping the highest 

 trees are wholly inaccessible. The eastern and western 

 sides are precipitous, but can be ascended with care and 

 labour by taking hold of the shrubs and projecting points of 

 the rocks. The large nia«s of Graywack slate that caps 

 the summit is stratified and inclined towards the south-east, 

 differing in this respect, from every rock below it. The 

 timber on the upper half of the mountain is similar to that 

 on the lower half. The white pine which grows at the bot- 

 tom, appears again in the middle region, where the lime- 

 stone is repeated. Tl^e summit is crowned with pitch pines, 

 ptnns rigida; with an undergrowth of blue and black whor- 

 tleberries, vacciniujn frondosum et resinosum. This is an 

 elevated and bleak region, and the rocks as well as the 

 stunted trees, appear to bear marks of the pelting storms, 

 and to have grown hoary, by the lapse of ages. Every 

 thing here reminds us of the grand elevation to which we 

 have attained. The quickened respiration, the sharp blast 

 that whistles through the moss-grown pines — the absence of 

 nearly all the tenants of the woods, both winged and quad- 

 ruped — the lengthened prospect, and extended horizon. 



The prospect is worthy of the toil required to obtain it. 

 We look down as on a map on all sides. Turning to view 

 the path by which we ascended, the house at the base of 



the mountain appears under our feet. At a little distance 

 on the right, Adgate's Pond shines like a silver basin, through 

 a nook of the mountain. On the left, the regularly planted 

 orchards, and the richly cultivated fields, present the beau- 

 ty of a garden, and the softness of a picture. The mead- 

 ows beheld with a bird's-eye view, exhibit the smoothness 

 of a level lawn. The woodlands appear hke scattered 

 clumps of trees designed to adorn a pleasure ground. The 

 whole is so perfectly in view, and so diminished in siz^, 

 that we can scarcely believe it to be of its well known ex- 

 tent. 



*' 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the vie^r, 

 And robes the" landscape ** in its'' magic " hue.'* 



On the north-east ^4he vale of Lebanonj" celebrated by 

 travellers for its romantic beauty, thickly scattered over 



* See profile. 



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