I saw the hills in the Hampshire Grants, the Highlands of the river, and all that God had done, or man could do, as far as the eye could reach -- you know that the Indians named me for my sight, ladf -- and from the flat on the top of that mountain, I have often found the place where Albany stands; and as for 'Sopus! the day the royal troops burnt the town, the smoke seemed so nigh that I thought I could hear the screeches of the women."

" It must have been worth the toil, to meet with such a glorious view."

" If being the best part of a mile in the air, and having men's farms at your feet, with rivers looking like ribands, and mountains bigger than the ' Vision,' seeming to be haystacks of green grass under you, give any satisfaction to a man, I can recommend the spot."

* Reference is here made to the burning of the village of Kingston (whose Indian name of E-so-pits vas retained until a recent period), by a British force imder General Vaiighan, in the Autumn of 1777. t "Hawk-Eye."

158 THE HUDSON.

The aerial pictures seen from the Mountain House are sometimes marvellous, especially during a shower in the plain, when all is sunshine ahove, while the lightning plays and the thunder rolls far below the dwellers upon the summits ; or after a storm, when mists are driving over the mountains, struggling with the wind and sun, or dissolving into invisibility in the pure air. At rare intervals, an apparition, like the spectre of the Brocken, may be seen. A late writei-, who was once there during a summer storm, was favoured with the sight. The guests were in the parlour, when it was announced that "the house was going past on the outside !