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

already very well worked. MUCH OF It
easily becomes muddy yet. from It's new
ness. The prospect is that i will be much
travelled; and if the work be kept up. as
il should be. for short time, this road
will afford very desirable pass across
the Mountain.
From Rochester passed, between the
mountains, thro' Hancock. to Granville.
formerly Kingston,l and thence across
another range to Braintree. The road
across this range is on the whole excel
lent-most of the way kept in good con-
dition. A valuable improvement has been
made recently on the Braintree side, by
way of making the ascent and descent
more gradual than formerly, at an expense
Of $500. It was money well laid out.
The individual who performed the labor,
| / should say, fulfilled his contract and
/ discharged his duty well. The roads,
generally. on this side of the Mountain
or, to speak more properly perhaps, over
and among the mountains IN this region
are kept in good condition. Two things
contribute to make it soAthe soil is favor.
able, and the people are industrious and
public spirited.
The high lands are less rocky here
than on the west side of the Mountain,
and the soil is productive, in many places,
at great elevation. As | have passed
along among, around, and over these de-
lightful hills, the contemplation Of the
comparative disturbances of places for
an earthly residence has run through my
mind. l love the Mountains of Vermont
have seen but little of the world besides.
Blu: in all have seen there are no attrac-
lions that tend in the least to draw me
away from my own native hills. Let no
dweller among the mountains of Vermont
sigh for the luxury and ease of western
prairies or southern sunny plains. Who.
ever thinks that the lands Of the Green
Mountain State, lying between the Cham
plain and the Connecticut, composed as
they are of mountains and valleys, would
be worth more for the use of men if they
were one vast plain or prairie, is no doubt
in very great error.
The We amer
Il may not be improper TO make a rec
ord Of the weather, inasmuch as it has
been very uncommon for the season, since
left Brandon. For some weeks previ.
Gus to the present extraordinary time, there
has been much cold. especially following
rains. keeping vegetation in a backward
J state. When left home on Friday, il
was raining, warm and very promising for
favorable, growing season. 1t continued
warm until past noon, when the wind
commenced turning into the north. The
cold came on again and increased very
rapidly. AT nine o'clock it was severely
/ chilly. On the morning OF Saturday the
ground was covered with snow. The
snow continued to fall, moderately, ard
during most of the time, through the fore
noon. The sun. however, being so near
| its northern extremity, removed if about
as fast as it fell, after nine or ten o'clock
i in most places, 50 that The ground was no
longer generally whitened. after it had
done falling. The clouds passed off and
the wind went down, so that ii was appa
rently much warmer at sun set than it had
been during the day so much so thai
there seemedto be ground for hope thai
there would be an escape from severe
frost. But the hope was illusory. We
, were disappointed. The frost came, and
has cut down corn. potatoes - SO far as
they were out of the ground. which was
not extensivcly-beans. and other vegeta.
bles. The leaves are blackened, and &c
some extent killed, on many trees of diff
ferent kinds - especially in the deep val
: leys where the freezing continued unit
the sun was high 10 the morning. The
+ fruit must be greatly cut off: The corn
will, probably, much of it, revive; and
there is time yet for il to come 10 maturity
should warm weather commence soon and
continue.
Z There has-been nothing to compare