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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, Beloeil, 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 Sutton, 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 
