I 1 tho the old man of tho mountain six sin miles of 0 coutin continual nal ascent have brought us na to profile luke although u crotty irl ty piece 11 ot I 1 water it lit in not lot lor itself this lake is a reported to by tho the or for tho the trout which you yoa take for tho the I of birdd birda on its ita burnished stir fatie bu but t for tho alia moun baill using rising high above buote a flooded coded sillies it so 80 faith faithfully fult mirrors mir rora now lift tile e eta fie to the bare to nummie Burn mit it is to believe tile tho evi dancu danco of the upon tho high cliffs cliff of this mountain is tile remarkable and celebrated natural ruck of a human bend which from froia it ii height twilva feet above nl ioco the lake lius has for or uncounted ages looked with the game stony ataro down the pass eliou t he ha winding wini liia of 0 the thal river through its vallby 1 ha ithell measures about forty feet from the tip lip of at the ihm to the hie flattened crown which ita parts to it such it A peculiarly litique it is ia perfect ex capt that the 1 Is concealed by something like tho the visor of a helmet anil and all this illusion is in produced by several loveral projecting crags it might lle bo said to hiiva have been begotten by a thunderbolt 11 seat wi within n rustic arbor on tho the high short of tho the lake one oco Is in tit at liberty to leisure what I 1 dare say bay Is 1 tho ilio most extraordinary eight of ft A blight change of position varies more or tells the character of tile thu expression which is utter after all the marked peculiarity of this alto for lot the turn his hia gaze vacantly upon the tha moro more familiar objects at baud its hi he inevitably will to assure himself that lie ho is not the alio victim of some strange ballu claa tiou liou born neither of admies tion lion nor born a horror but strongly ing of both emotions drawn him irro irra sisti bly back to tile the Daut esquo bolt huml stuck like a felons ou on the highest bittle menta of the puss tho nacim yon may have soon the moro more your feelings fee liuga are tho the greater tho the confusion of aldeas th alio 0 moment is come tu to oa ao knowledge yourself vanquished this Is ia not dot merely a faor faco it is IB a portrait this is a not the work of some nomo attuning chisel but it oust cast from a living has IOU aon feel bud ami will always maintain that those have bad a living had nothing more nothing less bat where unil anti what was waa tho the orl original ginal prototype proto typo 7 not mae india since agen before lio lie created the chisel of alie almighty wrought this upon the rook rock above us no not man tile face is ia too majestic too nobly grant for anything uny thing of mortal mould ono of the antique gods may have oat but tor for this archetype of the doming coming man binn anil and yet not tuan miili we think for the hoad will surely barely hold tho the same strange conversa fill futurity when mau man abou lave have vanished from the alio face of the earth curth had byron visited this place pance of awe awa anti ud mastery liin lie 11 manfred Maufre tl tho the scene of which is in laid among the mountains of the bornost alps would doubtless I 1 kave had it deeper perhaps it 11 more Dini shi aler leler impulse but even among those eternal ol of ice the ibe poet never beheld oil ii object that could so BO orange the hu he has baa breathed into that tragedy uia ilia line I 1 bound to earth ho be lefta lie ills eye eo to lo heaven becomes descriptive here this gigantic silhouette which has boon bon christened tuo the old man ot of the Mona mountain taia is in the greatest of this or oi any other mountain region samuel adams ad area drake in ia harpers magazine