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"SHs AOtOuus eAuu tuO 6OOO VsO uiotbOHS Ol the surrounding counties on ea:h side of the mountain, trembled at his name. In short, the mountain pass, which was really as TO. mantle a place as the landscape painter would seek for a picture, and was just the spot to remind youth fresh from his classic studies, of the place where LeOnidas and his three hundred Spartans fell, in attempting to defend Greece against the army of Xerxes i; in despite Of the grandeur of its beetling cliffs. and the beauty of ifs vcrdure, was as- sociated in the minds of many pious persons, with the broad gate that lends to destruction. And Ned FoTgeron, the handsome black smith, was invested with the attributes and hidious aspect of his Satanic majesty, by ma ny . mountain girl, who would doubtless have fallen in love at the first sight with him, under any other nane.

 The preacher, whose circuit lay on either side of the mountain. at the time Ned's dire ful edict was promulgated to the world, was . meek and I0wly man, svho approached nearly in hts natural disposition to willing obedience to the mandate relative io turning the cheek to the snliier. The poor soul Pas. sed many sleepiess nights in view ofthe late that awaited him al the mountain pass In his dreams he saw FOFgeron with huge sledge hammer in his hand, ready lo dash out his brains. and would start with such vio. leDce as to wake himself. He inquired if there was no other place at which the mountain could be passed, only toIearn his doom more certainly. Being tiInin n'an, but withal devoutly impressed with Ss'ise of duty, he resolved to discharge hIS duties faithfully, ec the consequences what they