here on my very entrance into its mild and genial atmosphere, as it is always called, had I suffered more chattering of the teeth than I ever did before for the same length of time. This may be an escape thought I, but if it is, it is one amazingly like that of Lieutenant O'Shangnessy, who _escaped_ from the field of battle into the ranks of the enemy. W. NEW ENGLAND. The place from which the following letter is indited, can be forgotten by no one that has ever seen it. A fine view of _Northampton_ may be had from the top of the _Mansion House_, where the visiter commonly abides; but whoever ascends _Mount Holyoke_, is rewarded for his pains, with a prospect of surpassing beauty. In _Virginia_, we may have from our summits, a view of mountains on the one hand, and on the other a country comparatively level, with occasional spots of cultivation; but there is seldom any greater variety. Nothing else is afforded by the _Peaks of Otter_. _Mount Holyoke_, furnishes a combination of beauties. The spectator beholds mountains and lowland; a country wild and rugged in one direction and in the highest state of cultivation in another. He has before him the lovely village of _Northampton_, with others not far distant. And the _Connecticut_, is seen winding its way, amongst its fertile meadows, in so circuitous and yet so regular a manner, as to make the country on its banks resemble a beautiful parterre. The water prospect gives to the scene its chief source of interest. _Mount Holyoke_, rises not so high as _Catskill_; nor is the _Connecticut_ so distant from it, as the _Hudson_ from the latter. And it is owing to this, that the water view, is finer from its summit, than from the _Pine Orchard_. The distance is sufficient to "lend enchantment to the view"--not so great as to prevent a spectator from seeing any beautiful object that a nearer view would embrace, with all the distinctness that is desirable. A Virginian, who has high authority for supposing that a visit to _Harper's Ferry_ is worth a trip across the Atlantic, may ask if _Mount Holyoke_ surpasses this famous _Virginia_ scene. State pride must yield to candor, and acknowledge that it does. The prospect from what is called the _Eagle Rock_, two miles distant from Harper's Ferry on the Loudoun side, is certainly very fine, and calculated to remove in some degree that disappointment, which one who has read Mr. _Jefferson's_ description is apt to feel, when the scene from the _Jefferson Rock_ is first beheld by him. But the view of the streams at Harper's Ferry, beheld from any point, cannot compare in beauty with the Connecticut at Northampton. And, in other respects, Harper's Ferry must yield to Mount Holyoke. It will not do to put the workshops of the former against the beautiful villages seen from the latter. Harper's Ferry cannot in any way obtain pre-eminence, until the spectator becomes conscious of the justness of _Mr. Jefferson's_ opinion as to