The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-06-01
PEOPLES PRESS.
Tuesday Morning, June L, 1871.
V f. X MONT.

Il Ii VI ~ "
The more we look over the different sections
of our country, and mark the distinguishing
blessings enjoyed by each, the better are we
satisfied with our noble little state.
No country in the world presents to the adj
mirer of natures scenery a more enchanting
landscape than this Switzerland of America.
From the station which we now occupy, in the
village of Middlebury, looking to the west, the
eye stretches over wide expanse of surface
covered with the richest verdure, alternating in
hills and valleys, meadows and woodlands. un.
I'll the enraptured vision is arrested BY the hoa-
~ SUBMITS of New York, at whose base rolls
the waters of Champlain, so renowned in the
history of the country, for the ruins which
crumble upon her shores, and the battles which
have been fought upon her bosom. On the
east, tower our own Green Mountains, fertile
to their very tops, and embedded in a soil, rich
ly yielding all that contributes to the susie.
nance, comfort and convenience of human OK.
lstence, and pouring from their sides, innumcr.
able crystal streams, to refresh, beautify and
enllven the borders through which they flow.
We have never travelled into other states with.
out feeling wearisome sense of the barren
ness and lnadequacy of all other prospects, TO
NIL the void made by our absence from the rich
verdure and the beautiful and sublime scenery
OF our native hills and mountains. 1.-THE aca-
dian scenes which we have described enter in.
to the enjoyments of this life, surely it was
happy lot which fixed our birth and residence
amidst objects so exquisitely touching, upon !
soil so luxuriant, and among people, manly.
industrious and enterprizing, and whose NOR
al and intellectual worth we may venture to
say, is surpassed by none on the globe. The
only drawback upon the delights of our noun
tam home, is the treatment which we receive
from the pinching severity of our winters
But even when this inclement season spreads
It's monotonous sheet of snow over the face of
nature, locks up cur streams and means around
us with its chilling blasts, our comfortable
ohu ShCSiIul IuOTe
the rigors of the climate, when we
compare them with the sufferings of our broth.
zen, who for months wilt, and languish under
he burning radiance ola southern sky.
But we have unconsciously wandered from
DUR original object, which was to arrange some
IDEAS suggested by an inspection of the statis
les of the several States, as collected in the
,eturns of the Marshals in taking the late CEN
'us. The comparison of our resources with,
'lder, more improved and popuIous states, rails
rs us to an elevation far beyond our most san ,
,uine anticipations. There is not one of them
u equal extent and population, which can boast
If such varied and abundant productions of ap.
iculture, although much of our soil has never
'een subdued by the axe and the plow. To ..
he acquisitions of commerce and manuac-
ures we make small pretensions. But in a
oil luxuriating in agricultural wealth, Yer.
nont is the unrivalled queen of New England.
The following exhibits the agricultural pro.
uctions of the states mentioned in round mum. {
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