10 : Geology, &c. of the Connecticut. 
Beers ; in which the former were defeated with. considera-. 
ble loss. And in the plain on the west side of the moun- 
tain, at a little distance, this same Capt. Lathrop, in Sep- 
tember 1675, was drawn into an ambuscade and cut off 
with his company, consisting of eighty ‘ young men, the 
very flower of the County of Essex.” Hence the parish of 
Muddy Brook, which was originally called Bloody Brook, 
derived its ancient name. 
n Sugar Loaf a two story building has recently bee 
erected for the accommodation of visitors.* 2 
Mount Toby. 
This eminence is two or three miles northeast of Sugar 
Loaf, on the east side of Connecticut river in Sunderland. 
It is made up of the slates and pudding-stones of the coal 
enon, and is little less than one thousand feet higher 
an the river, and twice as high as Sugar Loaf. The view 
from its summit is, of course, more extensive : but as item- 
braces for the most part the same regions that are seen from 
Holyoke and Sugar Loaf, it is unnecessary to be more 
| Deerfield Mountain. 
ticut, It is not very extensive ; but the basin in which 
Deerfield village stands, presents a Picture of rural beauty 
of singular delicacy and luxuriance. The village, lying at 
the foot of the mountain and running parallel to it, appears 
* Growing out of the almost naked rock on the top of the Sugar Loaf, I 
noticed the following rather rare and interesting plants: Ascl + verti- 
eillata. Artemisia canadensis, Arbutus uva ursi, Clinipodium vulgare, Pea 
quinguefida, Celtis occidentalis, &c. &c, 
