HISTORY OF CURRIES MOUNTAIN. 
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surroundings were made to assume somewhat nearly their 
present aspects. 
Only a few more words are necessary. The view which the 
hill commands — one of the most beautiful, as has been said, 
which the river affords — includes two very large islands, Sugar 
and Indian islands, lying between the main river and the mouth 
of the Keswick. As indicated by its name, one of these was 
formerly a favorite camping-place of the Indians, and tradition 
tells of severe conflicts here between the native tribes and the 
invading Iroquois from the west. Stone axes and other imple- 
ments of like nature are not of uncommon occurrence, and in 
connection with the excavations made at the base of Curries 
Mountain for the construction of the railway, human skeletons 
wrapped in bark and accompanied by beads and ornaments, 
were exhumed and destroyed by the navvies engaged in the 
work. But we have no reason to believe that the mountain or 
its surroundings were materially different then from what they 
are now, except as regards the removal of the forests and the 
changes incidental to the advent of civilization. So we have no 
reason to anticipate any serious change in the future. The 
volcano, if we are right in so terming it, is dead, and has been 
so for many millions of years. Volcanic activity has been trans- 
ferred to other regions of the earth, and Curries Mountain and 
its associated hills are now chiefly interesting as helping to 
determine a beautiful landscape or as affording to the geologist 
opportunity for the study of some problems of the remote past. 
