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spot and point out to him the various localities of which I have 
written. I should like, too, to have him see my witnesses and 
cross-examine them; for unless the evidence is strong enough 
to perfectly satisfy the public of the truth of my statements, I 
The following are copies of letters to Dr. Wm. K. Scott, attesting to 
the facts above stated. 
“Letter from Lebbeus Turner, of Aurora, Erie County, N. Y., dated East 
Aurora, Dec. 17, 1855. 
T received a few lines from you last Thursday, asking me to give you 
Some information respecting Mount Anthony. 
well remember that when we lived in Mapletown the mountain 
was visible from our houses, and the white spot or streak on the side was 
plainly to be seen: the length of it went up and down the mountain. 
€ mountain was seen some way below the spot; but for a number of 
years that spot has gradually filled up, and is now grown over with 
bushes of a size to obscure the spot. I presume the trees on the inter- 
Vening hill have grown to a larger size than they were in those da 
therefore I may justly conclude that Mount Anthony has not sunk down, 
nor the intervening hill risen to obscure the sight of that grand pile of 
rock and earth. 
ell remember the time when that white spot was made. I was 
something like eight years old. At that time we lived on the Oak Hill, 
where Miner Roberts lived. There was a very heavy thunder shower 
Passed over the mountain from the southwest, so as to entirely o seure it; 
Wwe could distinctly hear the rain roar; and as soon as the rain was over 
and the mountain was visible, that spot appeared. The neighbors at that 
time said that a cloud broke, and a large brook ran down the mountain. 
My wife remembers well that the mountain was visible from our house. 
[Signed,] Lesseus TuRNER.” 
” “Letter from Jacob Hallenbeck, of Hoosick, N. Y., dated Hoosick, 
. Sept. 14, 1856. 
__You wish me to pen my recollections on the former appearance of 
Mount Anthony, and its present appearance from the place where Turner’s 
shop used to stand. I think I can recollect some forty-five or fifty years 
ago, the mountain was plain to be seen from the place where the shop 
then was, but cannot be seen from that locality now, in consequence of 
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‘stood, when viewed separately, have all the same nao - me they 
‘ever had; but taken together, they present quite a different appearance 
from what they pm ISR I think there must be some alteration 
