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diff --git a/old/9242.txt b/old/9242.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a7e424 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/9242.txt @@ -0,0 +1,592 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Old Ticonderoga, A Picture of The Past, by +Nathaniel Hawthorne + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Old Ticonderoga, A Picture of The Past + +Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Posting Date: December 20, 2010 [EBook #9242] +Release Date: November, 2005 +First Posted: September 18, 2003 +Last Updated: February 6, 2007 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD TICONDEROGA *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger. HTML version by Al Haines + + + + + + + + + + THE SNOW-IMAGE + + AND + + OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES + + + + 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 of Old Ticonderoga, A Picture of The Past, by +Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OLD TICONDEROGA *** + +***** This file should be named 9242.txt or 9242.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/4/9242/ + +Produced by David Widger. HTML version by Al Haines + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions 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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