, 
W. K. Scott on a change of level in the Green Mountains. 245 
My first impression was that the whole of this change was due 
to the subsiding of the mountain; but reflecting how many feet 
it must have settled to be hidden from our view, I gave that up, 
and settled upon the opinion that Russel Hill must have risen, 
for one foot rise of that hill would hide twelve feet or more of 
the mountain. 
Had I been a practical geologist, I should have sought for 
some evidence of its having risen; but knowing very little of 
that science, I could only glean a few facts obvious to every one. 
The road in front of the house in question runs nearly north- 
east for about fifty rods, and then turns east and crosses the line 
of Russel Hill continued. I say the dine of the hill, for the hill 
itself does not cross the road. Near where the road crosses that 
line is a stream, on which was a grist-mill in 1800. As it now 
18, there appears to me to be no fall that could be used for that 
p e; and the owner of a meadow some sixty rods above 
the mill told me that that meadow was formerly a very rich and 
productive one—that the mill pond never set back far enough 
to injure it—but that now, whey there was no dam, it was so 
Wet as to be almost worthless.—Below the mill for many rods, 
when I was a boy, the water was still enough to be a convenient 
place for little boys to bathe in. Now, there is quite a fall there 
—enough to make a valuable water power. 
Following the line of the crest of the hill across the road, we 
come to a barn-yard, belonging to the widow of Lyman Andrews, 
which, in 1800, was supplied with water brought from a spring 
than the barn-yard to give great velocity to the water, so that it 
i small orifice 
memory of one man. und : 
this, for the inhabitants of that district had changed many times 
in fifty years, and most ° 
or moved to parts unknown. ; 
by the name of Lebbeus Turner, who lived there several years 
