The face of "Sky Top" is heaped around with enormous boulders some thirty feet in diameter.

In among them extend rocky labyrinths which can be explored with torches.

On every hand are immense masses of Shawangunk grit hurled together over the cliff as if with the convulsions of an earthquake.

Upon these acres of rock around the lake grow the most luxuriant lichens and the forests in June are efflorescent with laurels and azalias.

The finest point of vantage is on Eagle Cliff; I have climbed there often to see the sun go down in a blaze of glory behind the Catskill Mountains.