LITERATURE. 1 1 
In 1813 Horatio G. Spafford, in a description of Rensselaer 
bounty, N. Y., referring evidently to its eastern part, wrote of — 
facts of wet uplands covered with a luxuriant growth of lofty white pine, 
Variously intermixed with hemlock, maple, ash, cherry, beech, and birch, 
jprming a most singular admixture of evergreen and deciduous trees.« 
In 1821 Timothy Dwight referred to Saddle Mountain (Grey lock) 
\n Massachusetts as — 
spur from the range of Taghkannuck connected with it by the hills of New 
ishford. From the Green Mountain Range it is entirely separated by the valley 
nd river of Hoosac 6 
In 1829 Chester Dewey made a distinction between the Green 
iilountain Range, the Taconic Range, and a spur of the latter, which, 
beginning west of Pittsfield, ends near South Williamstown and seems 
So commence again in Vermont. He wrote of insulated hills in the 
lousatonic Valley, but the Greylock mass he regarded as a part of 
lie Green Mountain Range. 
In 18H Edward Hitchcock, in his " Scenographical Geology of 
Massachusetts," described the more picturesque features of Berk- 
hire County.' 7 
In 1846 Ebenezer Emmons published a sketch of the Taconic Range 
Is seen from the Helderberg Range in New York/ 
In 1847 C. B. Adams discussed the stoss and lee sides of ledges and 
Jiountains.f 
In 1849-50 Asa Fitch gave this description of the physiography 
f Washington County, N. Y. : 
Between the main range of the Green Mountains and the Hudson River are 
iree parallel ranges of mountains and hills, viz: 
1. The Taconic Range, which runs along the east line of this county iimnedi- 
fcely upon the Vermont side of that line. * * * It is singular that this 
pain of mountains which are mere outliers of the Green Mountain Range, here 
boots up into higher peaks than any points in the main range opposite to them. 
* * Though beyond the boundary of the county, these mountains consti- 
lte a most prominent and interesting feature in its scenery, looming up, as 
ley do, in majestic grandeur, all along its eastern horizon. And as winter 
pproaches, their summits, capped with snow a fortnight or more before it 
nades the low country to the west of them, are beacons which prompt every 
iggard husbandman to hurry in with his last load of potatoes and his last 
liock of corn. 
2. The Peterborough Range, best marked in Rensselaer County, but running 
lso through this county, by Oak Hill, the Jackson Hills, the Pine Hills in 
a Spafford, Horatio Gates, Gazetteer of the State of New York, Albany, 1813, p. 96. 
b Dwight, Timothy, Travels in New England and New York ; vol. 2, Journey to Ver- 
ennes, letter 2, p. 389 ; New Haven, 1821. 
c A general view of Berkshire County, Pittsfield, Mass., 1829. 
d Hitchcock, Edward, Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts, vol. 1, pt. 2, 
p. 229-240, 253-256 ; Amherst and Northampton, 1841. 
e Emmons, Ebenezer, Agriculture of New York ; Part V of Natural History of New 
ork, PI. V ; Albany, 1846. 
'Third Annual Report of Vermont, pp. 21, 22. 
