New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-27

VOL. VI. No. 1&D.
region The dogs .ghich had hitherto secured the
forest on every side, now crouched close to our
sids-evidently frightened as they looked off on
empty space-and al was dreary. savage and wild
At length we reached ,he top, and Oh, what
view spread ont before as or rather below US
Here nearly SIX thousand feet IL the
heavens on the highest point OF land IN the Empire
State, and with one exception the highest In the
Union and in the center OF a chaos Of mountains
the Ike OF which I never saw before 1t was
wholly unlike the Alps-there were no sno" peaks
and shining glaciers, but all was graz or green rs
far as the exc could rescll It looked as II the
Almighty had once set this vast earth rolling Ike
the sea and then in the midst Of It's Inaddest flow
Did all the gigantic pillows stop and CONCEAL IN their
places And there they stood just as Jehovah
froze ,hem-grand and gloouly There was the
long swell-snd there the crestng, bursting billow
and there too, the deep. black cavernous gulf Far
away. nearly hundred miles to the Southeast
a storm was raging, and the massive clouds over
the distant mountains-oI rather tetwon US and the
mountains and below their suInmits-stood in space
with their white tops towering over their black
and dense bases, as il they the margin Of
Jehovahs mantle folded back TO let the earth be-
yond be seen. Mount Golden. with its precipiccs
Mount Mcintyre, with It's bold. black and barren
peak-Wh ite f ace with its white spot its fore
head. and countless other SUBMITS pierced the
heavens III every direction. And then such
stretch Of forest, for more than three hundred miles
in circumiercnccridges and slopes OF green broken
Ill l.t tbntd ing. int, vic
from their deep hiding places Still there was beat
ty as well as grandeur here Lake Champain
with its countless islands spread away as far as
the eye could reach toward the Canadas, while the
distant Green Mountains rolled their granite sum
inits along the Eastern horizon. with Burlington
curtaincd in smoke at their feet. To the North
west cleaned out here and there the lakes OF the
Saranac river and farther to the West those along
the Racket; nearer by, Lake Sanford Placid
Lake. Lake Golden, Lake Henderson and dozen
others smiling in quiet beauty amid this savage
solitude. Throughout the wide extent but three
cealings were visibc-all was as Nature made it.
Ny head swan in the wondrous vision, and
seemed lifted up above the earth, and shown all
its mountains and forests and lakes at Blu;
the impression of the whole it is impossible TO con.
vey-nay / am myself hardly conscious what it is
1t seems as il | had seen vagueness sublimity,
strength all at once embodied SO that had new
aud more definite knowledge of them. God seems
to have wrought here i'll these old mountains with
His highest power, and designed to leave symbol
Of His OInnipotencc Man is nothing here, and his
very shouts die on his lips One of our company
tried to sing but his voice fed from him into the
empty space We fired a gun, but it gave only
half report and no echo came back, for there was
nothing to check the sound in its flight. God IS
great" is the language of the heart, it swells
over such scene And this is in New York, l ex
clnimed whose surface is laced with Railroads and
Canals and whose rivers are turbulent with steam
boats and iringed with cities. But so 1t IS and
here is mountain in its center but few feet have
ever trod or will tread for century to come
advise no one to attempt the ascent OF this noun
tain without II pair OF stout legs under hun and
will to match for it will task all the strength and
resolution he possesses: We designed to encamp
AS near the summit as could and obtain lire
wood so that we might sec the sun rise from the
summit, but the heavens grew darker every mo
ment warning us to find shelter for the night
About five o'clock we left the top and went heller
skeUer uoWH ING pteClPiious siucs NOtiS az
break neck pace for three miles over rocks, down
ravines and through the bushes, at length stop
pod and began 10 peel bark TO us for the night
for we were twelve miles from clearing and II
was getting dark. Soon the ak resounded through
the forest and tree after tree came the earth to
furnish fire wood for the night Every man must
pick his own bed cried our guide for he had his
hands full to erect a shanty Our knapsacks were
laid aside and we scattered ourselves among the
balsam trees with knife in hand TO cut boughs TO
sleep ON. The messy ground was damp. aud l
picked mo a thick couch and stretched myself upon
it while supper was preparing. Our fire was made
OF logs more than twenty feet long and the flames
arose and caught the spruce trces-shoo,inS up III
pyramids of flames and cracking III the night air
like SO many torpedoes One dry tree took fire, and
asked if it might not burn in two during the night
and fall on us Oh, no. it Will fall the other way
was the cool reply, and lay down to sleep. The
storm which had been gathering commenced and
all night long the rain fell but the good FIRE kept
cracking and blazing away, and | was so COM
petcly tagged ont that slept dciciously. In the
morning we arose sore and lame, and that twelve
miles were the hardest ever travelled.
ooh bu. II weary wight was h.
When he reached the loot OF the dogwood tree
Yours, &c. H.
MIR DELAvAS's DEcLENsloS.-The following
letter appears in the Albany Argus OF the 25th;
BAl1srox CENTER Angus, p. lsi6
To Bi9iam y. Campbell, BarHeg Core, w. l. Pra0'