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scattered elm rising in the midst of them, its spreadhig limbs 

 extending themselves in forms of the most graceful expan- 

 sion, and the river distinctly traced in its curious meander- 

 ings, as it were doubling itself continually in its progress from 

 one end of the valley to the other, where it soon mingles 

 with the Connecticut, and the forest-covered hills, which on 

 three sides enclose this valley, present altogether a landscape 

 of transcendant richness. 



The road through Erving's Grant, now the town of Erving, 

 by Miller's river, following the course of this swift and brawUng 

 stream under a long range of high and beetling cliffs, of singu- 

 lar and extremely picturesque formation ; the cave at Sunder- 

 land, on the north side of Mount Toby, a remarkable fissure in 

 the rocks ; the Shelburne defile, where the road from Green- 

 field to Coleraino, following a small and rapid branch of Green 

 river, finds its way among steep hills, which, at every few rods, 

 gather in and seem to defy all passage ; the road from Leyden 

 to Bernardston, of a similar character and extremely beautiful ; 

 the glen in Leyden, where the Green river appears to have forced 

 a passage through a deep chasm in the rocks, and at last makes 

 a sudden escape by a cascade of surpassing brilliancy and 

 beauty ; the junction of the two great branches of the Ueerfield 

 river in Shelburne, and the grand passage of the river over the 

 Shelburne falls ; and the whole road of most remarkable inter- 

 est and picturesqueness of natural scenery by the banks of 

 the Deerfield river, for a distance of perhaps twelve miles, 

 through Charlemont and Zoar, to the foot of the Hoosic moun- 

 tains, are all suited to charm the man of taste, and want noth- 

 ing but the fictions of romance to make this region the true 

 home of poetry. Ascending the Hoosic mountain, and from its 

 summit looking back upon the country which you have trav- 

 ersed, mountains and hills, combining the highest forms of 

 grandeur and elegance, crowd upon the sight. The Deerfield 

 river is seen for a long distance, like a narrow thread winding 

 its silver current among these mountains, covered with the 

 thickest foliage from the base to the summit, with here and 



