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246 W.K. Scott on a change of level in the Green Mountains. 
and moved away about 1805, who was still living. He was a 
man of intelligence, and still retains his mental powers. 
was a nailer, and had a house and shop near my father’s house, 
on the opposite side of the roa 
I wrote to him, asking if he remembered the white spot on 
Mount Anthony, and where he used to see it from. He answered’ 
that he could always see it from his house, and described its 
shape and general appearance. He also said that he saw the storm 
on the mountain when the earth was washed away. This was 
before he lived in the neighborhood in question. His letter 1s 
quite interesting. I then made him a visit, and found that he 
is wife were both clear in their recollections about it, and 
both certain that there could be no mistake about the mountain 
having been visible from their house. I had likewise an inter 
view with his eldest son, Stillman Turner, who now lives im 
Worcester, Mass., and he is equally clear in his recollections. 
Mr. Turner’s eldest daughter, too, remembers that the white spot 
on the mountain could be seen from their house. I have like 
wise a letter from Mr. Jacob Hallenbeck, who has lived all his 
life in another part of the town of Hoosick, and who was very 
n at Mr. Turner’s shop, and he “thinks he remembers hav 
ing often seen the mountain from that place.’ In a conversation 
with him after the letter was written, he spoke with absolute 
certainty of having seen the white spot from the back window 
of the shop. 
All this appears to me to be sufficient. evidence of the simple 
fact that Mount Anthony, and the white spot on the side of 1 
could be seen from my father’s house and that vicinity, in the 
beginning of this century. All the rest is conjecture. 
Tn order to ascertain how much the hill has risen, we must 
first find out how much higher the top of the mountain 18 than 
the bottom of the white spot, the distance from the mountain to 
the hill, and from the hill to the house; and all this will make 
quite a job of work. It is to be noted also that the white spot 
is not now visible from a distance, for it is covered with a growth 
of shrubs and small trees which have sprung up within the last 
thirty or forty years; but its boundaries can be easily : 
for so much earth was removed that a high bank was left at the 
sides and at the top of it. 
If any geologist, whether employed by the State of yo 
or not, should deem this of sufficient importance to be worth 4 
i 1 undertake 
-eareful survey and a scientific investigation, and wil 
_it, I shall take great pleasure in transmitting to him what I know 
_ about it, much more menmely : og 
than I have done in this comm 
nication, and to send him what letters I have received on © 
bject; and further, should he desire it, I will meet him on the 
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