Massachusetts Spy And Worcester Advertiser

ECHOS.

There are several echos in the highlands, which, from their powers, and the number of times which they repeat, have attracted much attention among the curious. From the spot where the artillery is usually planted at West Point, we have often counted five distinct reverberations on the discharge of a field-piece; and the celebrated echo below the Point, near the site of old Fort Washington, repeats nine times. One of the most distant echos that we ever heard is upon the east side of the Otsego lake, occasioned by the peculiar conformation of the mountain celebrated in Cooper's novel, "the Pioneers," as the sublime scene of the fire in the woods. The reverberation is distant, yet so distinct, that a whole sentence of ordinary length is repeated and the effect of a band of music of a tranquil evening, upon the bosom of the lake. is very fine, as it appears like two bands, at different points playing the same air at the same time. In the days of "auld lang syne," it was a favorite amusement of the villagers, with their wives and sweethearts, to enjoy a double banquet of music in this way, upon the lake of a moonlight evening. But neither of these echos bear any comparison with one in the neighborhood of Milan. This echo, as we are informed, has been counted to repeat the report eighty-five times. And what renders the peculiarity still greater. is the fact, that some words in the same sentence are repeated stronger than others, and do not always regularly and gradually diminish and die away. This echo has interested Bonaparte very much; he went several times, and used to discharge two pistols at once, and always exclaimed that it was the most extraordinary thing he ever heard.

[N. Y. Com. Adv.