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from a cliief of the St. Francis tribe of Indians, its western 

 face bare and rocky. Hoh, on the west, presents a long 

 tabular outline, sloping gently to the north, and dropping 

 suddenly off to the northern and southern extremities. As- 

 cending now a wooded slope, the height of land separating 

 the tributaries of the Connecticut from those of the St. Law- 

 rence, a scene of grandeur and of beauty opens upon you ; 

 the lake, of clear deep blue, calmly sleeping between its two 

 overhanging sentinels, — in the distance. Owl's Head, rising 

 out of Memphremagog like a giant, keeping also its ceaseless 

 watch over the region. 



Once upon the bosom of the lake, you begin to appreciate 

 the features of your locale. There you may glance your 

 eye upwards from its waters on the perpendicular fronts of 

 those two mountains, tlie eastern towering 1950 feet, and the 

 western one 1500 feet, from where you are lying in your 

 boat. Annance is the more striking object, hoAvever. Its 

 base is wooded for about 600 feet ; then a sheer precipice of 

 slate rock for 800 feet, with a granite tower pushed through 

 it, and perhaps 550 feet more of woodland crowns the whole. 

 A cave on the east shore, just where the granite cloven foot 

 of Annance steps down into the lake, bears the universally 

 accepted if not acceptable name, wherever anything strange 

 or mysterious is found, of Devil's Den ; on the wet rocks in 

 the entrance of which, some interesting lichen was detected 

 by Mr. Frost, — a Collema, I presume. 



It is by the aid of a road, and while opposite this place, 

 that you must turn directly east up the mountain, on an 

 angle of 40 degrees, and difficult of ascent from fallen trees, 

 undergrowth, and, worse than all, branches of the White 

 Cedar. Would you enter the domains of Flora, in her mod- 

 ern Garden of Eden? Never mind," then, but crawl on for 

 500 or 600 feet, and you shall be more than repaid by coming 

 into an open field of five or six acres, clear of trees, a part of 

 it overhung by the precipice, protected from the winds and 

 storms, — a natural conservatory. This is the flower garden. 

 It was on this ascent that Mr. Frost felt himself entering a 

 region of great botanical interest. The southwestern slope 



