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and proceeds south from the summit 1 1/4 miles along the narrow rocky ridge of the mountain to the hotel. The detailed map in the front of the guide book shows these routes clearly. The Lake of the Clouds, 1/4 mile north of Eagle Pass, is a tiny lakelet of much beauty and is the highest lake in Vermont.

MT. MANSFIELD REGION

This portion of The Long Trail is in charge of the Burlington Section of the Green Mountain Club. Burlington (Hotels: Vermont, Van Ness and New Sherwood), beautifully situated on Lake Champlain, has a population of about 25,500. Hikers desiring to visit the Mt Mansfield region may approach it either from Burlington on the west, Jeffersonville (Hotel Melendy) on the north or from Stowe (Green Mt. Inn), a village of some 550 inhabitants east of Mt. Mansfield, and connected by electric railway with Waterbury (Waterbury Inn) on the C. V. R. R.

Mount Mansfield is the highest of the Green Mountains; its silhouette strikingly resembles a man's face turned to the sky and the peaks are consequently named from south to north, The Forehead, the Nose, the Chin and the Adams Apple. The Indians, in the musical language of the Wau-banakees, called it Meze-o-de-be Wadso, Moosehead Mountain. East of the north end of the mountain, across the deep and rugged Smuggler's Notch, is the Sterling Range reaching out towards Johnson; east of the south part is Stowe Valley, draining to the south to the valley of the Winooski River at Waterbury. The other side of the Stowe

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valley is formed by the Worcester range, a detached group of peaks of great beauty and considerable height that from a prominent feature in the landscape. South of Mansfield lie Mts. Admiral Dewey, Admiral Clark, Admiral Mayo and Bolton Mountain

Mount Mansfield is interesting in many ways; on its bare summit (the largest area above tree-line in Vermont) are glacial boulders, travellers from far away deposits. Botanists will find rare plants, some said to be of pre-glacial origin; of more human interest there is a cairn of stones, the Frenchman's Monument, that marks the spot where a traveller was killed by lightning. Smugglers Notch dates back in local history to the days of the War of 1812, when rovers made use of it as a safe and secret passage for smuggled goods. Smugglers Cave was a place of refuge for a gang of lake smugglers, having sheltered many things that were never passed by Customs.

The Chin reaches the height of 4,393 feet above the sea, and from it the views are magnificent; Vermont's mountains lie in a billowing sea in all directions. To the north Mount Royal above Montreal stands against the horizon. The top of the mountain is rocky and barren, windswept both winter and summer. The University of Vermont has owned for many years a strip of land eighty rods wide and the length of the mountain, along the very ridge, which protects it for all time for the enjoyment of the people.

Mt. Mansfield is not only the highest of the Green Mts. (4,393 ft.) but because of its several peaks, two miles of high ridge, and the great Smugglers Notch along the eastern side there is more to be