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nity of visiting it myself, which I should much like to do, 

 but feeling much curiosity respecting it, I applied to my 

 friend, Alphonso Wells, Esq. a gentleman whose acquaint- 

 ance with the localities of this province is very extensive, for 

 information respecting it. He says, " this mountain I take 

 to be the highest mountain in all this part of Canada. It 

 rises about two thousand three hundred feet above the level 

 of the head waters of Missisquoi River, which take their rise 

 at the western side of its base. It is called Orford Mountain, 

 and its highest peak is about three-quarters of a mile from 

 the south and west limits of the township of Orford, near the 

 south-west corner. I have never examined the nature of the 

 formation, but believe that a considerable portion of it is 

 granite. A small lake, about a mile in length, lies at the 

 south end of this mountain, in the township of Bolton, and 

 the stage road passes in a cut, made out of the solid rock, 

 about fifty feet above the level of the surface of the water 

 of this lake, the edge of which rock rises nearly perpen- 

 dicularly from the water. At this cut I have found large 

 quantities of asbestos in the fissures of the rock. 



" The view from the summit of this mountain is truly 

 grand and magnificent. The mountains of Montreal, Montar- 

 ville, Belceil, Mounoir, Rougemont, and Yamaska, all of them 

 rising out of a flat level country, appear in a westerly direction. 

 Shefford, Brome, and Farnham mountains also appear, lying 

 more near, in a west and south-westerly course. Still more 

 to the south, is seen Pinnacle mountain, in the east part of 

 the Seigniory of West Ormond ; and south, and still more to 

 the east, are seen Button, Bolton, and Potton mountains. 

 In Potton, rising abruptly from the west shore of the Lake 

 Memphramagog, and about four miles and a half from the 

 Province line, is a high, conical, and very steep mountain, 

 called ' the Owl's Head,' which is a very conspicuous point 

 in the view from Orford Mountain, and, next to it, is supposed 



