. Ticonderoga: past and present. "Mixed." A companion to "Lake George, illustrated." . THE PRESENT STATE OF THE RUINS. ROM the south end of the hotel a pathleads across the field, Avhere, at its out-skirts, we climb over the stone wall,and, following along under the locusts, alittle way to the south come to the ^ oldfort well, a never failing spring, thegreen, slimy home of the frog and the lizard, nearlyfilled with stones and clinging alders. Crossingthe road we follow along up the stone fence overthe very road pursued by Allen on that INIay morn-ing nearly a century ago. There is
. Ticonderoga: past and present. "Mixed." A companion to "Lake George, illustrated." . THE PRESENT STATE OF THE RUINS. ROM the south end of the hotel a pathleads across the field, Avhere, at its out-skirts, we climb over the stone wall,and, following along under the locusts, alittle way to the south come to the ^ oldfort well, a never failing spring, thegreen, slimy home of the frog and the lizard, nearlyfilled with stones and clinging alders. Crossingthe road we follow along up the stone fence overthe very road pursued by Allen on that INIay morn-ing nearly a century ago. There is little doubtabout it. Allens narrative, the various traditions, and thetestimony of Isaac Rice, whose brother Avas withAllen at the time, establish this fact, as well as thatof the place where the commandant slept, andwhere he stood when the tall Vermonter demandedthe surrender. The old soldier, who, himself, per- The Underground Passsage. 53 formed garrison duty, under St. Clair, for manyyears acted as a guide at the ruins, and was buried,at his own request, within the fortress, there tosleep un
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