From the Glens Falls Observer, Oct. 8.
    A few miles from this place, in Saratoga county, a young man took his gun, one day last week, and went up the side of Palmertown mountain, above what is called the great pond, near a place which is famous for the circumstance of a large company’s collecting there a few year’s since, and digging for money, supposed to have been coined and concealed there by Spaniards, before and during the revolutionary war. While searching for game, he discovered near him a rattlesnake of enormous size, upon which he levelled his piece and shot it through the head; he had no sooner done this, than, on looking around, he discovered that he was surrounded on every side by these venomous serpents. He then took a club and commenced killing, and before they could make good their retreat, he had forty of them lying dead before him. He took four of the largest and returned home. On measuring them they were found to be over four and a half feet in length, and nine inches in circumference. Their ages could not be ascertained, as many of their rattles fell off and were lost among the leaves, where they were killed; but they were probably near thirty years old. Two of them were of the yellow kind, and their heads resembled very much in colour, copper that has been newly minted.
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