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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. +</p> + +<p> +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. +</p> + +<p> +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. +</p> + +<p> +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. +</p> + +<p> +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. +</p> + +<p> +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. +</p> + +<p> +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. +</p> + +<p> +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. +</p> + +<p> +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. +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD TICONDEROGA ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +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. 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