THE TACONIC LANDSCAPE. 21 
m alley. The western part of this area is about 35 miles due south of 
Ihe mass between Lake George and Lake Chainplain. These 80 square 
Iniles, however, are only the eastern half of a plateau which is marked 
fcy steep slopes on the west, north, and south, and ranges from between 
11,400 and 1,200 feet down to the 800-foot level. The general surface 
|pf this plateau has thus a westerly inclination. 
Hudson-C Uiam plain valley. — The region west of the Taconic 
■Range at the north, and of the plateau at the south, is mostly a broad 
expanse of minor undulations and hillocks below the 800-foot level 
land frequently with a north-northeast trend. In about the center is 
(a double or treble series of more or less detached hills and hill masses, 
[ranging from nearly 800 to nearly 1,500 feet, with a like trend. The 
[western series includes Mount Rafinesque in Brunswick, Mount Wil- 
llard in Easton, Mount Rascal in Argyle, two hills in Hartford, the 
[Pinnacle in Granville, and Hatch Hill in Whitehall. The eastern 
series includes the Cobble in Cambridge, Mount Colfax in Jackson, 
Hebron Mountain, Pine Hill and Mount Tom in Hebron, an unnamed 
elevation near Granville, and Thorn Hill in Hampton. 
THE TACOINTIC LANDSCAPE. 
There is one feature in a landscape which neither a contour map 
nor a relief map adequately represents — that is, the horizontal aspect, 
the familiar aspect of the face of the earth. There are several points 
in the region from which impressive and instructive general views 
of the Taconic landscape can be had. One of these is Killington Peak 
(4,241 feet), in the Green Mountain Range, 8 iniles east of Rutland, 
which commands the Green Mountain Range north and south of it, 
and also overlooks the Taconic Range. Another point is Snake 
Mountain (1,271 feet), in Addison County, Vt., which, lying beyond 
the northern extremity of the Taconic Range, commands a view across 
the entire Lake Champlain basin, from the Green Mountains to the 
Adirondacks, as well as of the northern part of the Taconic Range. 
Rattlesnake Point, on Mount Moosalamoo, in the Green Mountain 
Range, in the town of Salisbury, in the northern part of the area 
mapped, also commands a view of the entire Lake Chainplain basin. 
Other favorable view-points are Dorset and Equinox mountains 
(after their summits shall have been cleared) ; Mount Grey lock; the 
granite knoll northeast of Renfrew, on Hoosac Mountain; Bald 
Mountain, in Bennington ; West Mountain, in Shaf tsbury ; the highest 
point in the road crossing the Green Mountain offset from Pownal to 
Stamford, Vt. ; Mount Rafinesque, in Brunswick ; and Mount Colfax, 
in Jackson, N. Y. 
Among published views these may be examined: Mon. U. S. Geol. 
Survey, vol. 23, pis. xiii, xv, and fig. 30; Thirteenth Ann. Rept. U. S. 
