Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1844-11-21

ms TO give the walls the appearance OF cost
w grouped marble pilastcrs--6nely hu,ed
The formation ofihc whole hall however,
is not quite so regular as ,ha, Of The other |
As nearly us can he nscerninoi BY the
course Of the several passages Of the cave.
as they have been measured. These two
rooms, in each OF which they were little |
wider, Bunker Hi! Monument nigh, stand
on ,iptoe, rise beneath high peak called |
Bnrrach Song hric--- which is perhaps the |
highest Of the bold mountains in the neigh. |
borhood,
Almos, remarkable ms these, is the "wind
ing way" through which you pass to reach
them II is no whore wider than five or
six feet-usually not so wide, but il rises
high above your head, running zig.zag for
more than hundred rods in length, path.
way where one cannot fall and where he
can see bu, a very short distance before or
behind him. The walls are closely coated
like those Of the Ro,unda and the Capital
with white and yellow s,aIacti,e. or area
Of white stone, left smooth by the passage Of
water in some past generation You may
imagine how beautifully the light is reHec.
ted from the brilliant walls, moist as they
are in most parts from the general moisture
OF the atmosphere.
These are the greatest beauties Of the
cave. Other halls are large and in their
general efiec, as grand, but not so richly
finished But you can scarcely pass any.
where along its rough passages after you
have fairly entered, without seeing above
Won single specimens or masses of brilliant
stalac,ite, mostly small indeed but in some
places Of great size and beauty The lime.
stone rock, IN the crevices of which you
are walking, lies in regular horizontal stra.
Ia, so that in many places it has exactly the
appearance Of mason work. The cave has
been formed by the dropping down Of the
rock in certain places, TO greater or lees
depth below. Thus the wall above--one
is tempted to call it the ceiling so smoothly
does it lie--is often as fiat and square as
that Of n finished room You may walk
for halfa mile over broken stones rough
below you indeed, but with the satisfaction
, of seeing a perfectly level and smooth rock
o covering above you. Whenever in thi:
!. fiat roof, there is any crack in the stone
!, props of water have trinkled through and
4 stalaclites have formed-brllliantly white
and shining vivIdly as they catch the light
6 which is almost lost on The black lime rocl
h above and behind them. OF the smallest
:. ones, which hung like single cicles, ont
n may collect any number. The large
!, groups are more rare.
,fl One ofthen, which hangs s;s oovo'
Y feet from the roof has precisely the appear
ance gracefully folded drapcry. Lik
e all of them, it is semi transparent, and il
/. colors are beautiful when light is so pIa
!. ced as to shine through it. As you strik
,r several folds, they ring out different music
N al notes, solemn y deep, with a gallery G
# halfa mile long to echo them In the in
N tense silence Of the cave. to which midnigt
~ is noisy, as you set looking down into ih
ID darkness ofthe passage beyond, these sound
n. came upon you with the effect Of solemn
a music.
n. In as large hall-pcrhaps ia ano,he
r. part ofthe same-C. Blew born. Tn
I echo rang and rang round as long befor
: they died away; with the same organ lk
z. dignity and depth of,one And when i
d the same place our guide fired pistol, III
We explosion, loud rs that of heavy eannon i
he the outer air, was, in Just the same way
We free from all crash of harshness This
IN was the real "diapason OF the cannon"
III never heard so solemn and gently music {
III a sound
SO If you are alone in any part Of the cav
!, away from any part oil the streams OF WI
ad ter which flow through most of the pssage
n. and if you are unds,urbedi by the ba
on which tbrong some OF the galleries, an
m extinguish your light, you have the gran
IN combination possible of all the condition
n. which go TO make sublimity, or, If We
= please, the horrors OF LONELINESS Silence,
!, | have said was perfect. Not a grain
ne dust to brush against another; not an or
We malculate TO buzz around you; not a brea
~ OF air gives the sounds which are, in mi
. night above ground though we are not o
IN sc'ous ofihem. And darkness where thr
he or four hundred feet of rock are betwe
no you and light, is real darkness SO is lor
FIJI Illness when your next neighbor is wor
ing on his farm furlong above 80
a. head.
he Such are one or two OF the grand paitic
ed larl,es which make a daythcre utterly wi
70 and unearhly. The experience oft ",
as as you may suppose, so sublime and gran
mr. that we did not in the leas, regre, the G
me tremely fa,iguing labors ofour twelve mil
Of journey in the cavern's borders 10 ano,h
da year Mr.. Howe's path making labors W
IN be so far ADVANCED as to render the passa
nee comparatively easy, without, think, Z
Is s,royiDg any Of its wonders. II will tn
Of be an object Of interest to travellers on tn,
M way to visit the beautiful spot where a
in writing. Truly, yours, f. l.
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il ARTIFICIAL PRoDucTIoS OF BLA
II LEAD'-On demolishing the interior bri,