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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Mac Dougall" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Anthony's Nose
> James Fenimore Cooper, in his 1823 short story "Imagination", refers
to
> an Anthony's Nose on the Mohawk River:
>
> 'On the north side of the Mohawk, and at about fifty miles from its
> mouth, is a mountain which, as we have already said, juts, in a nearly
> perpendicular promentory, into the bed of the river; its inclination is
> sufficient to admit of its receiving the name of a nose. Without the least
> intention of alluding to our hero, the early settlers had affixed the name
> of St. Anthony, who appears to have been a kind of Dutch deity in this
> state, and to have monopolized all the natural noses within her boundaries
> to himself."
>
> Hugh C. MacDougall
> Secretary/Treasurer
> James Fenimore Cooper Society
> 8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326-1016
> <[log in to unmask]>
> <http://www.oneonta.edu/~cooper/>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Lord" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 12:59 PM
> Subject: Anthony's Nose
>
>
> > August is perhaps the perfect time to field something like this.
> >
> > A person called me from up north on Lake George with a question that all
> of you no doubt will like to sink your teeth into (pardon the pun, which
> will become evident in a miniute...).
> >
> > He wondered on the derivation of "Anthony's Nose"(s), applied to
prominent
> cliffs, the one on Lake George and the other down the Hudson, and the tale
> that General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, while lost in the wilderness, cut off
his
> own nose to eat to keep from starving (get the pun now?).
> >
> > OK, that's it...... all replies will be, by their nature, interesting.
> >
> > Philip Lord, Jr.
> > Director, Division of Museum Services
> > New York State Museum
> > Albany, NY
> > E-mail: [log in to unmask],gov
> > Website: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/services.html
> >
>
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