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

ed 70 bis amazed companion--who Of
course RETAINED bis feet from initiating
him. You roll long mile or two
the road gently undulating through the
majestic woods, and friEged with bushes
ofdelighlful greenwich vast and over
whelming opening breaks upon you.
boundless Room among the mountains,
walled on the left by the great Elephant
mountain. the rock covered by stunned
evergreens precipicing up two thousand
feet-the blue sky itself scarce visible
over It's eternal ridge. Before YOU, at the
farther extremity opens the Notch curtain
ed by the sky OF Vermont, which there
comes down upon it-and on the right the
wooded. steep side Of Lafayette. or Great
Haystack. Nothing can exceed the aw-
ful sublimity of the great wall on the LEFT
The vast mountain side is clothed with
scales Of rock as with coat of mail, scar
red here and there with the old avalan.
clle-while opposite he forest side Of
Lafay ette is striped down with the deep
green of modern woods, which have
grown in the paths of the "slides." AT
the northern extremity of the great Room
you come to view the old MAN of the
Mountain It is on your left, up-say
1900 feet-a perfect profile Of an aged
man, jutling out boldly from the sheer
precipice, with sort ofturban on the head
and brow, nose, mouth. lips, chin, and
fragment Of neck, all perfect and 10 the
life-and with a little fancy you supply the
cheek and ear. II looks off Southeast
1t needs no imagination to complete it. 1t
is perfect, as if done by art But il is up
where art never climbed.
The pond which heads the Pernigewas-
set lays mirror at the foot OF The almost
perpendicular mountain. We followed a
foot path down to its margin and wan
defed along its narrow beach to the North
ern extremity. The view South from
here is truly wonderful. The sheer
precipice of rock rising to the sky on the
right, and the fores, side of Lafayette, as
high and almost as steep on the left, both
coming down atthe extremity of the great
apartment in the form of a notch, and the
whole foored by the green lake. While
we stood bordering the magnificent scene,
two or three wagons from the North drove
rapidly through the pass. The rattle o.
their wheels sounded through the vast hol-
low like the running of a hundred char.
iots.-H Herald Of Freedom.
----l $50 80
~ Papers published in the slavehold-
ing States oftentimes contain queer MKT
ure Of advertisements Ian odd combina-
ton OF events; verifying, to the letter. an
old expression: there IS but a step betweea
the sublime and the ridiculous. Witness
the following in the :. Commercial Chron.
lc.e," newspaper published at Ports
mouth, Va, which . friend has just pu!
into our hands.
Stephen James adyertises, in one col
umn, -
PURE LIQUORS.
Right opposite. in another column, s.
3. Taten, adyertises .
RUNAWAY SLAVE.
and offers reward OF 500.
Immediately under the first, WIN. H.
Il. Hodges advertises. 4
aIPLEY's NOTES ON THE FOUR GOSPELS.
Aud to crown the whole, the editor, IN
to "Sketch of College HE
which appear in The same paper, vonders
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE
AN support the present system OF collegi-]
tie education. A wonder, truly; and it
vas wonder to some Of US at the North,
,.so how religious people can support the
present system of stavery--which. let us
d a. kindness tell the editor. will most
eriously affect Gny system of education
which The people of the South may be
LEASED to adopt