Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1839-10-04
THE VERMONTER IN MISSISSIPPI

L OLN XIV -
No two sections of earth are more
diverse from each other than Vermont and
Mississippi, and the native of the former
while n pilgrim in the latter must often
picture in memory's sketch book the land
of rock ant torrent and cloud and noun.
tain-re,racing the scenes Of his boyhood
and living over again the halcyon days Of
his youth.
The scenery of Mississippi, for the most
part, is comparatively dead level-oucc
the floor of the ocean gulf, swept by its
waves, and given to the sun only when
those waves receded; while the scenery Of
Vermont is a thousand mountains, linked
together by ridges Of rock and chains of
mounds, heavlng aud sombre with the
henlock, the spruce and the pine. The
former owns its creator in the deep and
boiling world of waters that sweeps along
its boundaries; the latter worships a. its
throne Of mountains, and before it can lay
its Offering on the summit Of the v)tive
altar the drapery Of the cloud must be
lifted. The former is burdened with an
eXuberance Of vegetation, teemlng with
exha'ations from rich alluvons; the latter
is bleak and frightfu with rocks and preci.
pices-deep down where the ca,aracts bse
themselves in he night of distance. The
former is spread on. beneath glorious
sun, and the sentinel stars" gaze out with
their large earnest eyes from heuven of
the deepes, blue upon a world cf green
fresh woods. stretching away in level per.
spec'ivc until the eye weares with the
vision; the latter glooms under he scowl
of the storm, and from mountain to noun.
tain reverberates the howl Of strange,
almost unear,hy, ,hunders, and the treasu
their vast resources upon the leraced hills
and roll their glaciers into the villes; the
latter is the mother of crystal waters that
boil up from thousand moun'aln veins,
cool transparent geysers, spou,lrg from the
fssured caverns and tumblipa in white
foam from rift to rift in haste iopay tribute
to the cheerful Vlceroy Of the east, the
Connecticut, or the su!,en Sa.rop of the
west, the Hudson.
But oh, the eternal mouDtaiDs-those
sublime "hils of fear" that prop the Yer,
mont heavens those are the images that
dwell the longest and the most windy in
the mind Of The wandercr from such hone.
Although in this cline Of the sun, every
prospect carries to the heart the impression
Of lmitless resources and unbDunded
wealth, yet will the pilgrim sigh at The
going down of the day, and recall to mind
the far mountain home of his youth He
will think Of the vast pyramid Of granite,
piled up against the western sky--the
masonry of the Almighty he will think OF
the lofty elm, standing on an island in the
brook that for years sung his lullaby at
night, babbling over bright and pearly
pebbles. while the zephyrs whispered with
the long armed branches; he will think OF
the rounded knoll where the young com.
panons Of his boyhood sported; he will
think of the classic DeerfieId. rolling its
waves Of silver through romantic elens,
and scoopipg out from the embraces Of the
mountains such quiet nooks-such sweet
and sequestered lawns, as would tempt the
most turbulent spirit to repose; he vii
think of the groves of fir trees, and that
lone lnclosure Of the dead where his alces
tors, 1.-THE rude foretalhcrs Of the hlmle,
Sleep" he will think of those far eastern
scenes, and even in the gorgeous south
the land OF The magnolia and the oranye,-
he will sigh for the groves and the graves
for the rocks and aracts,-for thu
church going bell and the academic ball
Of his father land.-.Naiches Free 1r1der
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