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If you are not located in the United States, you +will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before +using this eBook. + +Title: Old Ticonderoga + A Picture of The Past + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Release Date: September 18, 2003 [eBook #9242] +[Most recently updated: May 16, 2022] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +Produced by: David Widger + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD TICONDEROGA *** + + + + +Old Ticonderoga + +A Picture of The Past + +by Nathaniel Hawthorne + + + + +The greatest attraction, in this vicinity, is the famous old fortress +of Ticonderoga, the remains of which are visible from the piazza of the +tavern, on a swell of land that shuts in the prospect of the lake. +Those celebrated heights, Mount Defiance and Mount Independence, +familiar to all Americans in history, stand too prominent not to be +recognized, though neither of them precisely corresponds to the images +excited by their names. In truth, the whole scene, except the interior +of the fortress, disappointed me. Mount Defiance, which one pictures as +a steep, lofty, and rugged hill, of most formidable aspect, frowning +down with the grim visage of a precipice on old Ticonderoga, is merely +a long and wooded ridge; and bore, at some former period, the gentle +name of Sugar Hill. The brow is certainly difficult to climb, and high +enough to look into every corner of the fortress. St. Clair’s most +probable reason, however, for neglecting to occupy it, was the +deficiency of troops to man the works already constructed, rather than +the supposed inaccessibility of Mount Defiance. It is singular that the +French never fortified this height, standing, as it does, in the +quarter whence they must have looked for the advance of a British army. + +In my first view of the ruins, I was favored with the scientific +guidance of a young lieutenant of engineers, recently from West Point, +where he had gained credit for great military genius. I saw nothing but +confusion in what chiefly interested him; straight lines and zigzags, +defence within defence, wall opposed to wall, and ditch intersecting +ditch; oblong squares of masonry below the surface of the earth, and +huge mounds, or turf-covered hills of stone, above it. On one of these +artificial hillocks, a pine-tree has rooted itself, and grown tall and +strong, since the banner-staff was levelled. But where my unmilitary +glance could trace no regularity, the young lieutenant was perfectly at +home. He fathomed the meaning of every ditch, and formed an entire plan +of the fortress from its half-obliterated lines. His description of +Ticonderoga would be as accurate as a geometrical theorem, and as +barren of the poetry that has clustered round its decay. I viewed +Ticonderoga as a place of ancient strength, in ruins for half a +century: where the flags of three nations had successively waved, and +none waved now; where armies had struggled, so long ago that the bones +of the slain were mouldered; where Peace had found a heritage in the +forsaken haunts of War. Now the young West-Pointer, with his lectures +on ravelins, counterscarps, angles, and covered ways, made it an affair +of brick and mortar and hewn stone, arranged on certain regular +principles, having a good deal to do with mathematics, but nothing at +all with poetry. + +I should have been glad of a hoary veteran to totter by my side, and +tell me, perhaps, of the French garrisons and their Indian allies,—of +Abercrombie, Lord Howe, and Amherst,—of Ethan Allen’s triumph and St. +Clair’s surrender. The old soldier and the old fortress would be +emblems of each other. His reminiscences, though vivid as the image of +Ticonderoga in the lake, would harmonize with the gray influence of the +scene. A survivor of the long-disbanded garrisons, though but a private +soldier, might have mustered his dead chiefs and comrades,—some from +Westminster Abbey, and English churchyards, and battle-fields in +Europe,—others from their graves here in America,—others, not a few, +who lie sleeping round the fortress; he might have mustered them all, +and bid them march through the ruined gateway, turning their old +historic faces on me, as they passed. Next to such a companion, the +best is one’s own fancy. + +At another visit I was alone, and, after rambling all over the +ramparts, sat down to rest myself in one of the roofless barracks. +These are old French structures, and appear to have occupied three +sides of a large area, now overgrown with grass, nettles, and thistles. +The one in which I sat was long and narrow, as all the rest had been, +with peaked gables. The exterior walls were nearly entire, constructed +of gray, flat, unpicked stones, the aged strength of which promised +long to resist the elements, if no other violence should precipitate +their fall.—The roof, floors, partitions, and the rest of the wood-work +had probably been burnt, except some bars of stanch old oak, which were +blackened with fire, but still remained imbedded into the window-sills +and over the doors. There were a few particles of plastering near the +chimney, scratched with rude figures, perhaps by a soldier’s hand. A +most luxuriant crop of weeds had sprung up within the edifice, and hid +the scattered fragments of the wall. Grass and weeds grew in the +windows, and in all the crevices of the stone, climbing, step by step, +till a tuft of yellow flowers was waving on the highest peak of the +gable. Some spicy herb diffused a pleasant odor through the ruin. A +verdant heap of vegetation had covered the hearth of the second floor, +clustering on the very spot where the huge logs had mouldered to +glowing coals, and flourished beneath the broad flue, which had so +often puffed the smoke over a circle of French or English soldiers. I +felt that there was no other token of decay so impressive as that bed +of weeds in the place of the backlog. + +Here I sat, with those roofless walls about me, the clear sky over my +head, and the afternoon sunshine falling gently bright through the +window-frames and doorway. I heard the tinkling of a cow-bell, the +twittering of birds, and the pleasant hum of insects. Once a gay +butterfly, with four gold-speckled wings, came and fluttered about my +head, then flew up and lighted on the highest tuft of yellow flowers, +and at last took wing across the lake. Next a bee buzzed through the +sunshine, and found much sweetness among the weeds. After watching him +till he went off to his distant hive, I closed my eyes on Ticonderoga +in ruins, and cast a dream-like glance over pictures of the past, and +scenes of which this spot had been the theatre. + +At first, my fancy saw only the stern hills, lonely lakes, and +venerable woods. Not a tree, since their seeds were first scattered +over the infant soil, had felt the axe, but had grown up and flourished +through its long generation, had fallen beneath the weight of years, +been buried in green moss, and nourished the roots of others as +gigantic. Hark! A light paddle dips into the lake, a birch canoe glides +round the point, and an Indian chief has passed, painted and +feather-crested, armed with a bow of hickory, a stone tomahawk, and +flint-headed arrows. But the ripple had hardly vanished from the water, +when a white flag caught the breeze, over a castle in the wilderness, +with frowning ramparts and a hundred cannon. There stood a French +chevalier, commandant of the fortress, paying court to a copper-colored +lady, the princess of the land, and winning her wild love by the arts +which had been successful with Parisian dames. A war-party of French +and Indians were issuing from the gate to lay waste some village of New +England. Near the fortress there was a group of dancers. The merry +soldiers footing it with the swart savage maids; deeper in the wood, +some red men were growing frantic around a keg of the fire-water; and +elsewhere a Jesuit preached the faith of high cathedrals beneath a +canopy of forest boughs, and distributed crucifixes to be worn beside +English scalps. + +I tried to make a series of pictures from the old French war, when +fleets were on the lake and armies in the woods, and especially of +Abercrombie’s disastrous repulse, where thousands of lives were utterly +thrown away; but, being at a loss how to order the battle, I chose an +evening scene in the barracks, after the fortress had surrendered to +Sir Jeffrey Amherst. What an immense fire blazes on that hearth, +gleaming on swords, bayonets, and musket-barrels, and blending with the +hue of the scarlet coats till the whole barrack-room is quivering with +ruddy light! One soldier has thrown himself down to rest, after a +deer-hunt, or perhaps a long run through the woods with Indians on his +trail. Two stand up to wrestle, and are on the point of coming to +blows. A fifer plays a shrill accompaniment to a drummer’s song,—a +strain of light love and bloody war, with a chorus thundered forth by +twenty voices. Meantime, a veteran in the corner is prosing about +Dettingen and Fontenoy, and relates camp-traditions of Marlborough’s +battles, till his pipe, having been roguishly charged with gunpowder, +makes a terrible explosion under his nose. And now they all vanish in a +puff of smoke from the chimney. + +I merely glanced at the ensuing twenty years, which glided peacefully +over the frontier fortress, till Ethan Allen’s shout was heard, +summoning it to surrender “in the name of the great Jehovah and of the +Continental Congress.” Strange allies! thought the British captain. +Next came the hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty, when the +cannon of Burgoyne, pointing down upon their stronghold from the brow +of Mount Defiance, announced a new conqueror of Ticonderoga. No virgin +fortress, this! Forth rushed the motley throng from the barracks, one +man wearing the blue and buff of the Union, another the red coat of +Britain, a third a dragoon’s jacket, and a fourth a cotton frock; here +was a pair of leather breeches, and striped trousers there; a +grenadier’s cap on one head, and a broad-brimmed hat, with a tall +feather, on the next; this fellow shouldering a king’s arm, that might +throw a bullet to Crown Point, and his comrade a long fowling-piece, +admirable to shoot ducks on the lake. In the midst of the bustle, when +the fortress was all alive with its last warlike scene, the ringing of +a bell on the lake made me suddenly unclose my eyes, and behold only +the gray and weed-grown ruins. They were as peaceful in the sun as a +warrior’s grave. + +Hastening to the rampart, I perceived that the signal had been given by +the steamboat Franklin, which landed a passenger from Whitehall at the +tavern, and resumed its progress northward, to reach Canada the next +morning. A sloop was pursuing the same track; a little skiff had just +crossed the ferry; while a scow, laden with lumber, spread its huge +square sail, and went up the lake. The whole country was a cultivated +farm. Within musket-shot of the ramparts lay the neat villa of Mr. +Pell, who, since the Revolution, has become proprietor of a spot for +which France, England, and America have so often struggled. How +forcibly the lapse of time and change of circumstances came home to my +apprehension! Banner would never wave again, nor cannon roar, nor blood +be shed, nor trumpet stir up a soldier’s heart, in this old fort of +Ticonderoga. Tall trees have grown upon its ramparts, since the last +garrison marched out, to return no more, or only at some dreamer’s +summons, gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD TICONDEROGA *** + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the +United States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part +of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm +concept and trademark. 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