16 Geology, S^e. 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 Kssex " Hence the parish of 

 Muddy Brook, which was originally called Bloody Brook, 

 derived its ancient name. 



On Sugar Loaf a two story building has recently been 

 erected for the accommodation of visitors.* 



' 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 

 formation, and is little less than one thousand feet higher 

 than the river, and twice as high as Sugar Loaf The view 

 from its summit is, of course, more extensive : but as it em- 

 braces for the most part the same regions that are seen from 

 Ho'yoke and Sugar Loaf, it is unnecessary to be more 

 panicular. 



Deerfield Mountain. 



At the highest point of that range of old red sandstone 

 extending from Sugar Loaf to Gill, that is, a little south of 

 the village of Deerfield, on the east, is a prospect, which, 

 in one respect, is more perfect than any along the Connec- 

 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 

 so much beneath the eye, that almost every building in it is 

 dstinctly visible. Beyond this, lies one of the richest inter- 

 val tracts to be found in New-England, through which 

 the Deerfield river meanders most beautifully ; and be- 

 yond these meadows, is an amphitheatre of mountains. 



* Growing out of the almost naked rock on the top of the Sugar Loaf, I 

 noticed the following rather rarft and interesting plants : Asclepias verti- 

 cillala. Artemisia canadensis, Arbutus uva ursi, Clinipodium vulgare, Poa 

 Quinijuefida, Celtis occidentalis, &c. &c. 



