Within the hnt we found a piece of paper, on which was written : -- " This hospice, erected by a party from New York, August 19, 1858, is intended for the use and comfort of visitors to Tahawus.-- r. S. P.-- M. C-- F. M. N." Under this was written :-- " This hospice was occupied over night of August 14, 1859, by A. G. C. and T. E. D. Sun rose fourteen minutes to five." Under this : -- '< Tahawus House Eegistee, August 14, 1859, Alfred G. Compton, and Theodore E. Davis, New York. August 16, Charles Newman, Stamford, Connecticut; Charles Bedfield, Elizabeth Town, 'New York." To these we added our own names, and those of the guides.

Our view from the summit of Tahawus will ever form one of the most remarkable pictures in memory ; and yet it may not properly be called a picture. It is a topographical map, exhibiting a surface diversified by mountains, lakes, and valleys. The day was very pleasant, yet a cold north-westerly wind was sweeping over the summit of the mountain. A few clouds, sufficient to cast fine shadows upon the earth, were floating not far above us, and on the east, when we approached the summit at three o'clock, an iridescent mist was slightly veiling a group of mountains, from their thick wooded bases in the valleys, to their bold rocky summits. Our stand-point being the highest in all that region, there was nothing to obstruct the view. To-war-loon-dah, or Hill of Storms (Mount Emmons), Ou-kor-lah, or Big Eye (Mount Seward), Wah-o-par-te-nie, or White-face Mountain, and the Giant of the Valley -- all rose peerless above the other hills around us, excepting Coldcn and M'Intyre, that stood apparently within trumpet-call of Tahawus, as fitting companions, but over whose summits, likewise, we could look away to the dark forests of Franklin and St.