With what rare power !-- to where our awed soul kneels

To Him who bade these splendours light the day.

VV. C. Bensett.

Erom the summit is a grand and extensive view of the surrounding scenery, which Dr. Dwight (afterwards President of Yale College) described, in 1778, as " majestic, solemn, wild, and melancholy." Dwight was then chaplain of a Connecticut regiment stationed at "West Point, and ascended the Sugar Loaf with the soldier-poet, Colonel Humphreys.

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Under the inspiration of feeling awakened by the grandeur of the sight, he conceived and partly composed his prophetic hymn, beginning with the words --

"Columbia! dilumbia! to glory arise, The queen of the world and the child of the skies."

QGenoral Arnold was at the mansion of Colonel Robinson (Beverly House) on the morning of the 24th of September, 1780, fully persuaded that his treasonable plans for surrendering West Point and its dependencies into the hands of Sir Henry Clinton, the British commander-in-chief, -- then in possession of New York, -- for the consideration of a brigadier's commission in the British army, and £10,000 in gold, were working prosperously^ This subject we shall consider more in detail hereafter. "We will only notice, in this connection, events that occurred at the Beverly Hoyse.

Qilajor Andre, Arnold's immediate accomplice in treasonable designs, had, in a personal interview, arranged the details of the wicked bargain, and left for New York. Arnold believed he had arrived there in safety, with all requisite information for Sir Henry; and that before "Washington's return from Connecticut, whither he had gone to hold a conference with Rochambeau and other Prench officers, Clinton would have sailed up the Hudson and taken possession of the Highland fortresses. But Andre did not reach New York. He was captured on his way, by militia-men, as a suspicious-looking traveller.