Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1875 — A Carious Freak of Nature. [ARTICLE]

A Carious Freak of Nature.

A curious freak of nature is found at Willough Lake, in the northern part of Vermont, where Mounts Pisgah and Hor rise 2,500 feet from the water, and 4,000 feet above the sea, and are less than a mile apart, while the lake below is of unknown depth—all efforts to sound it have failed—and is supposed to rest at the level of the sea. A few years ago an immense rock, weighing over 300 tons, was started from its bed at the top of Mount Pisgah, and fell down the almost perpendicular face of the mountain into the lake, tearing away the carriage road and everything that opposed it, shaking the whole region round and being heard ten and fifteen miles away. The lake is an immense spring, as hardly a brook flows into it, but a river flow’s out large enough to carry extensive mills. A winding foot-path conducts to the summit of Mount Pisgah, which is abruptly cut off on the side nearest the lake, tprming a perpendicular precipice nearly 3,000 fleet high, below which lies water* of such singular transparency that one can see more than 100 feet below the sutflsce. The leihptation to leap from such a height is almost irresistible, and no one has yet visited the place of strong enough nerve to stand erect and look over the brink, but visitors crawl up on hands and knees to satisfy their curiosity. The view from this height is grand. To the east cam be seen- the White Mountains and the Connecticut Biver winding down eighty miles of its course; to the north and north west are j Monadnock, fifty miles away, and the en- ’ tire length of Lake Memphremagog, and ' to the west is seen the western range of the Green Mountains. The scenery is un- ! surpassed in New England, and the drive l over the carriage-way which skirts the ' lake and connects Orleans and Caledonia | Counties is the most picturesque ot any in the State.—A .F. Commercial Adtertuer. —That Mexican baby-eater seems to have fully demonstrated the truth Of the r saying that the child is fodder to the man. I—Chicago 1 —Chicago Inter-Ocean. '