“THE JAMBS.‘ 
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spot ; the worthy man is said to have been an eccentric character, 
hut he was one of the first preachers of the Holy Gosple, per- 
haps the very first, in this valley, and his preaching from a cart is 
one of the local traditions. A little parsonage close at hand is 
occupied by the principal of the Academy ; with its garden, flow- 
ers, arbor, and bee-hives, it looks pleasantly from the road-side. 
Some years since it was a Swedish clergyman who officiated here. 
From the summit of a hill on the left, crossed by a country 
road, there is a fine view over the valley, and the lake in the dis- 
tance ; there are also several little sheets of water, limpid, mount- 
ain tarns, among those hills ; the stream flowing from one of these 
forms a modest little cascade. It is rather remarkable that we 
have so few cascades in this county, abounding as it does with 
brooks and streams, and lesser lakes lying at different levels ; but 
the waters generally work their way gradually down the hills 
without taking any bold leaps. 
On the opposite side of the valley, a mile or two farther down 
the stream, there is a singular fissure in the rocks, a sort of ravine, 
called “ The Jambs,” where a geologist might perhaps find some- 
thing to interest him, if one ever fomrd his way here. A low 
barrow is also observed on that side of the valley, which some 
persons believe to be artificial ; it has very much the character of 
the Indian mmmds in other parts of the country, very regular in 
its outline, and not larger than many which are known to be the 
work of the red man ; occasionally it is proposed to open it, but 
no step of the kind has yet been taken. There are, however, 
very many low knolls about our valley, near the hanks of the 
river, and it is sometimes difficult to decide, from a partial exam- 
ination, whether they were raised by man, or shaped by floods. 
