74 - Dr. Alien on West River Mountain. 
early heard “ noises like thunder on the mountain”— 
. th y the eruption, was about thirty feet 
deep’ *—and ne = “he repeatedly visited the place, but nev- 
er saw any flam 
‘The a HE is situated on the east side of Connecticut 
river, opposite to Brattleborough, East-Village. Its great- 
est length is north and south, and does not exceed four 
tained woety ie friend Erastus Root, M. D. is nine pe 
Tovar the top, the mountain separates into an east- 
and western section. At a distance of about thirty 
as ascending from where vegetation flourishes, on the 
south extremity of the eastern cliff, you come to the shaft 
which has been sunk into the rock about one hundred feet. 
dere the volcanic Set ete is pSepponte: to have occurred. 
place 2 is € ss soctuere nore instinct- 
and contains hematite iron ore. From come: at some 
for. 
rmer period, it is said, capillary Suellen of silver were 
obtained, but this is probably a mhistakes® 4 
de * Mr, Gibbs, recently a tutor in Yale College, shewed me some of this 
ore, which, many years ago, was sent from the garrison at Fort Dumm 
ibbs. ve me, is inc —is it not lier’ 
pe not the localty of native silver, ecatinneds in Cleaveland 
ir D eddiuate this 
see Se know thing, or gee of th 
he soldier's + epaulet— 
@ eat say only the ginal specimen like that sent by Dr. Allen, was 
