Mount Mansfield
Mt. Mansfield. ca 1890
The English in the West Indies, J. A. Froude, 1888
Introduced among scenery of this kind, we followed the river two or three miles, when it was crossed by a bridge, above which stood my friend Miss Burton's lodging house, where
she had designed entertaining me. At Gordon's Town, which is again a mile farther on, the valley widens out, and there are cocoa and coffee plantations. pp 218-9 |
It seems that Susan Burton came down from Mount Mansfield to say farewell to a 'genial' former guest and his family as they left for the U.K.