. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. a torrent, the soughing of the trees, andthe dismal drip, drip, drip of the storm without. The closedshutters, the dreary appearance of a house unoccupied, andthe antique appearance of the surroundings carry me back acentury and a quarter to the flight of the household of SirJohn Johnson, and, as I become more accustomed to the dimlight, I almost expect to see a scarlet coat with gilt lace andthe blanket or moccasin of an Indian, hurriedly left behind. This hall is grand in its proportions, being thirty-five feetlong, fifteen feet wide, and pe
. The Mohawk Valley : its legends and its history. a torrent, the soughing of the trees, andthe dismal drip, drip, drip of the storm without. The closedshutters, the dreary appearance of a house unoccupied, andthe antique appearance of the surroundings carry me back acentury and a quarter to the flight of the household of SirJohn Johnson, and, as I become more accustomed to the dimlight, I almost expect to see a scarlet coat with gilt lace andthe blanket or moccasin of an Indian, hurriedly left behind. This hall is grand in its proportions, being thirty-five feetlong, fifteen feet wide, and perhaps ten feet high, with pan-elled walls and broad oaken stairway with plain mahogany bal-luster and rail leading to the lofty attic above. The large room on the west side of the hall, with its loftypanelled walls and broad, deep windows, seems to have been,and undoubtedly was, a room built for Sir Williams use, hisreception-room. And I almost expected to see him seated at his desk in thecentre, with implements of war and the chase adorning the. -fW. Guy Park and Fort Johnson 149 walls, giving audience to the rude soldiers and savages ofthose primitive days. Opposite this room is another room ofnearly the same dimensions, but having the appearance of be-ing designed for a parlor or drawing-room. Back of theserooms are two long, narrow rooms whose dimensions seem tohave been sacrificed to swell the size of the grand rooms infront. The rooms and hall on the second floor correspond withthose below except that the panelling is confined to one endof the room and forms closets on each side of the wide anddeep chimney, and seems to suggest some secret recess orclosets the same as were found in the Guy Park mansion. Inthe southeast room is found a quaint addition to the fire-place— a primitive cast-iron heating apparatus which is prac-tically an open iron fireplace, and bears on its face thesewords: Ross and Birds Hibernian Furnace, 1783. The two long and narrow rooms in the rear ar
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