2-752-419 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Looking Towards Smuggler's Notch, from the Nose', 1874. View from Mount Mansfield in the Green Mountains, Vermont, USA. 'Smuggler's Notch has a hundred poetical charms that deserve for it a better name. It is so called because once used as a hiding-place for goods smuggled over the Canada border'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]