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voad can be formed, except over the emptied bed of Lake 
Willoughby, and are thus compelled to find their market 
down the valley of the Pres ees ; & Steehich has almost 
entirely p settlemen ee 
After we ‘hed examined ie “bed of Borg Lake, and 
the ravages which its waters had occasioned, as long and as 
minutely as our time would permit, we returned down the 
gulley, and arrived at our inn at 3 o’clock, where we sat’ 
down to a meal rendered welcome by laborious exercise and 
the fasting of ten hours. Immediately after, bidding four of 
my companions adieu, I rode down the river in company with 
the fifth, to the village of Barton. Our course was on the 
eastern bank of the gulley, - every step of the way I could 
witness the desolations of the torrent. ‘Taking the whole ex- 
cayation, for the twelve miles in which I followed it, it is the 
highest exhibition of the effects of pissecal force, instantane- 
ously exerted, si I have yet seen 
At 
arton, where m companion left me, I lodged at 
mn near the pat of Belle Lake, a sheet ot water of he 
size of Long e, and inits situation and environs eminently 
romantic and beautiful. On its northern side, lofty perpen- (1 
icular cliffs of white granite, said to be not less than 100 feet 
in height, project into the water. As seen om the southern © 
hi ee 
shore, columnar, and it was easy to fa 
ita gigantic edifice, furnished with its appropriate suite of 
pillars and pilasters. ‘The waters of the lake had that pecul- 
iar crystalline transparency, which belongs to the lakes of 
every granitic region. It could not be doubted also, that 
choice siliceous erystals might be found among the cliffs ; but 
the solution of this point was reserved till my return. In the 
mean time, as a grammatical — could be —— against 
the name Belle Lac, and as the good its vicinity 
might ers a2 pms the name Beau Eek, 
the epithet for a noun instead of an adjective; I con- 
cluded, for all these reasons united, to call it—T HE CRYSTAL 
estern 
all burnished anew anew, he walks enraptured along the shore of 
this lovely sheet of wate 
In the morning I started i ine season for Lake Memphre- 
magog ; but, after a ride of eight miles, . finding my horse 
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