Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-07-14

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the centre of the mountain when the swiy-
ell was fired. The shot went point blank
against it, and struck the stupendous pre-
cipice as from top to bottom with a rever-
beration like the discharge CT a hundred
cannon. And what a sight followed.
They rose up from that mountain-the
countless myriads and millions sea birds,
in an universal, overwhelming cloud,
that covered the whole heavens, and their
cry was like the cry Of an alarmed nation.
Up they went-miliions upon millions
ascending like the smoke of furnace
countless as the sands upon the sea shore
awful, dreadful for multitude, as if the
whole mountain were dlssolving into life
and Highland with an unearhly kind of
lament, took up their line of march in
every direction off to sea. The sight
startled the people on board the steamer,
who had so often witnessed it before, and
for some minutes there ensued a general
silence. For our own part we were quite
amazed and oVeraWed at the spectacle.
We had seen nothing like it ever before
We have seen White Mountain Notches,
and Niagara Falls, in our own land, and
the Vastness of the wide and deep ocean,
which was then separating US from it.
We had seen something of arts magnif-
cence in the old world, its "cloud capt
towers-its gorgeous palaces and solemn
temples but we had never witnessed SUBJ
limny to be compared to that raising of
Sea Birds from Ailsa Craig. They were
of countless varieties, 10 kind and size. from
the largest goose to the smallest marsh bird,
and of every conceivable variety ofdismal
note, Off they moved, in wild and alarm
ed rout like a people going into exile
filling the air far and wide with their re-
proachful lament, at the wanton cruelty
that had broken them up and driven them
into captivity. We really felt remorse at
! il, and the thought might have occurred
TO US, how easy it might have been for
them, if they had known that the little
smoking speck that was laboring along
the sea surface beneath them had been the
cause of their Punishment, to have settled
down upon it and inguiphed it out ofsight
| forever.
We felt astonished that we had never
before heard of this wonderful haunt Of
sea. fowI-and that no one had ever writ
ten a book upon it. Il struck Us, as real
" one of "the wonders OF the world"
And not US alone, o,hersnot at all given to the
marvellous, declare that il surpassed every
thing they had ever before witnessed We
supposed the mountain must have been
quite deserted, from the myraids that had
flown away, but lifting the glass to it, as
we were leaving its border, we were ap-
palled to find it still alive with the myri-
ads left behind. They kept leaving and
leaving-until our steamer had got far
beyond the Craig, ard till we could no
longer discern their departure with the
telescope; and it was miles off in the
dusky Irish Sea, before we saw the ebbing
of their mighty movement, and that they
were beginning to return. We felt reliev-
ed to see them going back. 1t had scarce
ly occurred to us In our surprise, that
they were not leaving their native cliffs
forever. Slowly and sadly they seemed
to return, while the eye sought in vain to
ken the outskirts oftheir mighty caravan.
And Aiisa Craig had sunk far into our
rear and quite sensibIy diminished in the
distance, before the rearmost of the feath-
cred host had disappeared from our sight.
The excitement occasioned US consider.
able depression Of spirits,-from which
We were not entirely relieved until night
came down upon the St. Georges Chan
mel and the protracted northern twilight
could no longer disclose objects to our
J, wearied vision. Then after refreshing
ourselves with some substantial confec-
tionary, with which dear George Thomp-
son had kindly stuffed our pockets from a
I" land of cakes" our beloved fellow pas
senger and ourself, after sundry fond re-
membranes of The other side of the ocean,
some expectations of next days greeting
in Dublin, and some grateful sense as we
trust Of the Goodness that had not forgot.
ten US anlid all our dangers by sea and
land we forgot wha: We had seen and
/ whereabouts we were, in the arms of Oh.
l,Vious sleep.
I The next morning the sun rose clear
upon the CLASSY sea, and revealed to- us
the hills and mists Of Old Ireland tow.
! ards which we joyously sped, entering
the beautiful Bay of DGbIin,-and at 10
| o'clock-just "a hours from our embark.
ing on the Clyde-we stepped ashore on
the banks of he Lifey, in the Irish CAPT.
tai. We found Irish and American
friends in prompt waiting for US at the
landing, aud 10 a few moments were bag
and baggage mounted on that out-ofdoof
nondescript vehicle, the Bian' Car, and
full gallop for l6l Great Brunswick
street, the elegant and hearty home oil
Richard and Hannah Webb
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THE THEATRE.
q More than twenty years ago the late