Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-06-22

~ f-llow traveller Garrison, IN the Scot
"a Highlands, either on Loeb Katfine
On board the barge rowed Dy McFarIar
and his three highIanders--or else as. we
rode the Shetland Ponies from Katrine 70
Loeb Lomohd, through aRob Roy's
country. and along bis ''naliye heath, -
anI when we were gazing upward at the
misi-clad mountains. --ihat if ever we Inv
ed 10 get home again. to our dear New
England. we would 60 and show him
New Hampshire's sterneran lohiersum-
mits.-her Haysiacks and her White
Hills, and their Alpine passes. God in
His tender mercy preserved US home
ward o'er.the terrible sea, and has kept
iis sjncs amid the vicisitudes Of the roll
ne wear. We have performed our prom
ise, and been our stipulated journey. We
mad gazedlogethsr on the Scottish Trosachs
and Caledonia's mountains, and now have
beheld New Hampshire's Highlands and
her eternal notches and gaps-her lonely
mountain peaks and boundless woods.
Scotland's t" Cragsn arc "wild and ma
jesiic" but they are no match for ours.
They are but island mountains. Ours
are continental The Ben Lomends and
Ben Neyises Of old Scotland rise abruily
from the lowland plains. in distinct and
naked elevation. Our great Haystacks
and our Mountain Washingtons lay away
from The sea and the, level country, en-
shrouded by illimiiable woods, amid piled
up hills, and you have to climb as high
almost as the Scottish summils. before you
&c! % their fset,-and you view them al
last, not in the full vigor or unlired imsg-
inaIion as you come 10 the g Highlands"
land with your fancy all a FIRE with po-
etry and song. but you reach them with
imagination faded and wea:ied out with
hills on hills ia everlasting succession
more han you can remember or cope.and
they stand there all unsung to speak for
themselves, and you have to take them as
they are. But we can not compare them,
any more than we can the great men of
the old world and the new. We. cannot
bring them together, that they NAV show
themselves at once before US.
We started from the home Of our dear
Plymouth kindred. Wednesday morning,
the 18th Of August, and took our way I'D
the wild Pemigewassct. The road fol.
lows that stream some thirty miles to its
source in the very notch of the great
Frsnconia Mountains, and is perhaps the
lsvelest, as i undoubtedly is the pleasant.
est Of any road of that, length, any where
In New Hampshire if not 10 New Eng.
land. The mountains shut down upon
the river so that the settlers had 10 stick
70 the stream. They could not leave Il
iar without coming upon surface little
TOO perpendicular for even the travelling
and inhabiting ambition of the northern
regions of the Granite State. The road
courses along the diminishing river, and
up the narrowing intervaies, and between
the converging and threatning uplands.
mat soon degenerate into mountains.
which though nameless, in land whose
staple commodity is hills. would still rank
respectable among the chief SUBMITS Of
more southern New England. Beautiful
strips Of intervale continue all the way IN
through Campton, Thornton and Wood
'lock, the picturesque and appropriate
aame OF what was once Peeling, and at
ne head Of plough naUigation. Wood.
hook IS the last of the towns-thoueh Lin.
;oln has yenlured up above her, into the
'ery notch, and has some families besides
,er town officers. Lincoln may. be made
however comfortable town BY temper.
,nce and hardy industry. Temperate in.
ius'ry can prosper any where, ia spite oil
Mountains and winieE-buf we would |
rave ADVISED men to stop in their career oil
emigration toward y ranconia Range.
IS tar short of il lWoodstock 9r
II the population was = l;uIs
Kicker. Woodstock b. noble n.rnl.
ION OF abolilionists. 1t was once ,ha
haunt OF rank party polilcs--but the tenn. I
'elanee re'orm oyerrun it some years ago. I
'na then revival Of religion, which seems
naturally enough to follow teetotaIism IN
and being aloof from the more
nnuential sects, the free inhabitants en-
raced quite generally the doctrines of al.
l when they we're first presented. !
REORGANIZATION, we believe has not
cen able 70 seduce them from their fideI.
y: y all New Hampshire was as bu.
e. ara iree as Woodstock, she would
me queen Stale Of the Union.
Inc scenery through Thornton strong.
resembles the rural districts Of Scotland
) = 90 IKE Il, that many years aao.a con.
uetaole number of Scottish emisSTa NE IL
; their way perhaps to Barne. and Rye
ase settlements Of their countrvmen in
,,nu nCn'' were induced TO stop short and
'','s mere: The McLellaas. the Robert
- the NC Dearmids and the McNor-
CA we remember their musical accent
1 ) o'e'en look in our boyish days. They
80 pissed away now and their places are
-pI''su oy their half Yankee descendants.
l q. 1iIon's tavern, about twelve miles