The Superior Times

Perpetual Ice.

The Poughkeepsie Telegraph says that there is a pass in the Catskill Mountains, between Shandakin Centre and Westkill, Ulster county, where snow and ice can be found at all seasons of the year. A road runs some five miles up a deep hollow, bounded on the two sides by high mountains, with a clear, ice-cold stream of water running down its centre. Stretching across the head of this hollow is another mountain somewhat higher than the others, that makes one think the passage-way had suddenly terminated in a sort of cul de sac, but on arriving at its base the road turns directly to the right and enters a narrow pass, hardly fifty feet in width. On each side the mountains tower upward a thousand feet from the roadway, not perpendicular, but so steep that when the trees have shed their foliage the top can be seen by a person standing at the foot. There is snow and ice during the hottest days of summer a few feet from the roadway. There are large masses of solid ice in some caves not further than five feet from the road. Strange as it may seem, the growth of vegetation is very rank, the lichens especially covering the rocks profusely, though animals are very scarce, it being too cold for their comfort.