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IN AN ANTIQUE LAND NOVEMBER BRINGS A CERTAIN CLARITY TO THE NEW ENGLAND LANDSCAPE. THE SUN IS NOT YET QUITE SO LOW THAT IT OBSCURES THE SUBTLE FEATURES AT MIDDAY, AS IT WILL WHEN IT FALLS SO HEAVILY UPON THE EYE IN LATE DECEMBER. SNOW HAS NOT BLANKETED THE GROUND, AS IT WILL IN JANUARY. AND IT IS NOT SO BITTERLY, DAMPLY, COLD AS IT WILL BE IN MARCH. IT IS THE MONTH OF THE STONE WALL. NOT ONLY THE TREE LEAVES, BUT THE BLUEBERRY AND BRAMBLE LEAVES ARE OFF, AND NOTHING OBSCURES THE VIEW EXCEPT THE FEW SMALL OAKS AND BEECHES WHICH WILL HOLD THEIR LEAVES ALL WINTER, AND THE EVERGREENS, ALWAYS THE PINE AND HEMLOCK. THERE IS NO POINT IN WAITING FOR THEM; THEY WILL OUTLAST YOU. WE CLIMBED A MOUNTAIN IN WARWICK, NOT MUCH OF A FEAT, AND NOT MUCH OF A MOUNTAIN; IT IS ONLY CALLED THAT ON THE TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP. AN ORDINARY MAN WOULD CALL IT A HILL AND LEAVE IT AT THAT. IT IS STEEP ENOUGH, BUT LACKS REACH. AN OLD ROAD CARRIES UP TO THE TOP, ONE NOT TRAVELED FOR AT LEAST 50 YEARS, GUESSING BY THE SIZE OF THE WHITE PINE AND MAPLE TREES THAT HAVE GROWN UP DIRECTLY IN THE CENTER OF THE ROAD BETWEEN THE CART-TRACKS. A FEW MINUTES WITH A CHAINSAW AND A COUNTING OF TREE RINGS WOULD SETTLE IT, BUT WE DID NOT CLIMB IT FOR ROAD-SURVEYING, WE CLIMBED IT TO SURVEY A PROPERTY BOUNDED BY STONE WALLS. WE GOT A VIEW THAT WAS FREE. FROM THE TOP YOU COULD SEE TWO REAL MOUNTAINS, MONADNOCK TO THE NORTH, WACHUSETT TO THE SOUTHEAST. WE DID NOT BRING A SPY-GLASS IN ORDER TO SEE WACHUSETT UP CLOSE, WE CLIMBED TO SEE IT AT A DISTANCE. IT IS NOT REALLY OUR MOUNTAIN, EITHER LEGALLY OR PHILOSOPHICALLY. IT STILL BELONGS TO WHOEVER IT WAS WHO BUILT THE SUBSTANTIAL HOUSE ON THE TOP. IT IS A CURIOUS FLAT-TOPPED HILL, WITH CONSIDERABLE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF HAVING BEEN WELL-BURIED UNDER THE ICE ABOUT 12,000 YEARS AGO. IT IS NOT FLAT BECAUSE IT WAS SCRAPED OFF BY THE GLACIERS, IT IS FLAT BECAUSE, AT SOME POINT, IT WAS CARRYING THE OUTWASH OF A MASSIVE ICEFIELD. THE TOP HAS TWO TRUNCATED ESKERS, WHICH ARE OLD STREAMBEDS OF MELTWATER THAT ONCE FLOWED UNDERNEATH THE ICE. THE ESKERS STAND ABOVE THE GROUND AS THOUGH SOMEONE HAD BUILT A CELESTIAL STREETCAR LINE ON THE TOP OF THE HILL, SO MUCH DO THEY RESEMBLE RAILROAD BEDS ONLY LACKING THE TIES AND RAILS TO COMPLETE THE JOB. JUST TO THE NORTHWEST IS A FLAT OUTWASH PLAIN WITH A HANGING VALLEY IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, NARROWER TO THE NORTH, WIDER TO THE SOUTH. IT IS A PAMET, A RIVER VALLEY (WELL, REALLY, A CREEK VALLEY) SUBSEQUENTLY CUT OFF BY MORE SUBSTANTIAL MELTWATERS THAT DEFINED THE HILL, AND LEFT ALONE ON THE TOP OF THE FLATTISH MOUNTAIN. THIS SMALL VALLEY STILL COLLECTS WATER, AND MAKES AN ELEVATED SWAMP, SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET ABOVE ITS MODERN COUNTERPARTS, AND THEN THE WATER TUMBLES DOWN THE HILLSIDE, SEEKING THE SEA. THE HOUSE IS WHAT MAKES IT CLEAR YOU WOULD NOT OWN THE HILL EVEN IF YOU HAD A DEED TO IT. THE CELLAR HOLE IS STILL EMPTY AND CLEAN, WITHOUT SUBSTANTIAL TREES, ALTHOUGH A GREAT, DYING, MAPLE HAS GROWN UP DIRECTLY OUT OF THE CELLAR WAL
Nov 23, 1987; MONTGO;11/19 LDRISC;11/23,20:32 MONTY23
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