Notice of an Ice Mountain in Wallingford, Vt. 331 
Arr. XV.—Notice of an Ice Mountain in Wallingford, Rut- 
land County, Vermont; by S. Peart Larurop, M. D. 
Messrs. Silliman—Having read, in a late number of your Jour- 
nal; an interesting account of the “Ice Mountain” in Virginia, I 
have thought that an account of a similar mountain in Walling- 
ford, Rutland County, Vt. would not be uninteresting to your 
ers. 
The “Ice Bed,” as it is usually called by the inhabitants of 
the town, is on the west side of the Green Mountains, about 
two miles west of Otter Creek, and half a mile south of the road 
leading from Wallingford to Mount Holly. The mountain at 
this place rises to the elevation of one thousand five hundred feet 
from its base, and about two thousand above the level of Otter 
Creek, presenting to the west an almost perpendicular mural front 
of light gray quartz rock, which may be seen at the distance of 
several miles, and called, from its color, “‘ White Rock.” From 
this high and hoary cliff have been precipitated to the foot of the 
mountain below, large masses of rock, varying in form and size, 
and weighing ‘from a few to many hundred tons. An area from 
thirty to fifty acres has been covered by these masses, confusedly 
piled upon one another. Ina deep and narrow ravine, opening 
to the southwest, and into which many of these rocks have been 
thrown, the ice is usually found. It is to this part, particularly, 
that the significant appellation of Ice Bed is given, as it is among 
the huge folds of this vast rocky drapery, that a large amount of 
ice coolly and calmly,sleeps, during the hot months of summer, 
while its kindred element, in other places, melts with fervent 
eat. The ice is here formed every year, during the melting of 
the snow in the months of February, March and April, and dis- 
appears, in different seasons, from the last days of June to the 
first of September, varying in time according to the quality of 
the ice deposited. and the heat of the spring and summer. From 
this bed large quantities of ice may be obtained, sufficient to sup- 
ply the inhabitants of the adjacent towns. It is often visited for 
the purpose of getting ice, and by those who are invited thither 
by the refreshing atmosphere of the mountain, and the truly sub- 
lime picture the place affords. 1 know not the usual temperature 
of the atmosphere among the rocks, as indicated by the thermo- 
meter, but full well do I know that after being nearly melted by 
