New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-11-18

Maine wilderness
THE .UMMT lI hIAADE
II the morning after vhetring orr appetite on
some raw pork wafer Of hard bread aud dip
per OF condensed cloud or wster-spout Te alto
gether began . maze OH way up the falls. which
have described this tine choosing the right
hand or highest peak. which was not the one !
bad approached before. Bat soon my companions
were 0st % my sight behind the mountain uire
I1 nv rear which sf.I seemed ever etreatng be.
fore me. and ] climbed alone over huge rocks
loosely poised. 2 nile or more, stlll ed-u- tow arr
the c.ouds-for though the day was clear else
where. the summit Vas concealed hy mist. tar
mountain seemed vast a--re CATION OF oose rocks
as d sometime o had rained rocks, and they Isy
as thev tell on the mountain sides. nowhere LARRY
Al rest. bat leaning on each other at rocking
stones with cavities between, but scarcely ans
soil or smoother shelf They were the raw materials
% a planet dropped from an unseen quarry. which
the vast chemistry OF Nature would anon work
up. or work down, into the smiling and verdalt
plains and valleys Oi earth This was an und0uc
extremity o.. the globe as IN Ignite We see coa
IN the process %. formation
At length I entered within the skirts of the
cloud which seemed forever drifting over the sum
nit and vet would never be gone. but was gene
rated out Of that pure al As last as II flowed
away and when quarter o. mile farther !
reached the summit Of the ridge which those who
miles long and contains thousand acres Of table
land was deep within the hostile ranks OF clouds,
and all objects were 0bscured by them. Now the
wind would blow me out yard Of clear sunlight.
wherein ! stood then gray. daVnng light ~as
all u could accomplish. the cloud line ever rising
and falling with the wind intensity sometimes
il seemed as il the summit would be cleared IN
few moments and smile On sunshine but what
was gained on one side lost on another. IL
was Ike sitting in a chimney and altIng for the
smoke o. blow away. 10 was, 10 TACT. CLOUD lac
tOry-these were the cloud works. and the wind
turned them of done from the cool. bare rocks.
Occasionally. when the windy columns broke 10
70 me, caught sight Of DARK damp crag 70 the
right or left the mist driving ceaselessy between
il and me. IL reminded me u the creations OF tie
old epic and dramatic poets of Atlas, Vulcan, the
Cyclops, aud PrometheIs such was Caucasus
and the rock where Prometheus vas bound
Eschyus had no doubt visited such scenery as
this IL was vast. Titanic and such as Nan never
inhabits. some part OF the behoder even
some vital part, seems 20 escape thr1ushthe loose
grating OF lis RIBS IS be asccuds. II & more lone
than you can imagine. There is css Of substantial
thought and fair understanding Ia hun, than IN the
plains where men lnhabIt HIS reason IS dispersed
and shadowy, more thin and subtle like the ar.
Vast Titanic Inhuman Nature has got him AZ dis
advantage, caught him alone aud pliers him Of
some Of his divine faculty. She does not smile on
him Ia the plains. She seems 20 say sternly.
why came sc here before your time TINS ground
IS not prepared FOR you Is 1t not enough that
smile in the valleys have never made this sol
for thy feet this air tor thy bres.hing. these ROCKS
for thy neighbors / cannot pity nor iond.e thee
here but forever reentessly drive thee hence to
whore I am kind. Why seek me where have
not called thee and then complain because you
find me but a stepmotherl shouldst thou freeze
or starve, or shudder thy life away here IS no
shrine, nor altar, nor any access to my ear.
chao. and snoieni Night come no 'Py
WIN purpose o. explore or 10 disturb
The secret. Of your Ieslm but
Lies through your spacious empire ~ 10 Light
The tops OF mountains are among the unfinished
parts or the globe, whittier II Is slight insult to
the gods to climb and pry into their secrets and
try their effect on our humanity. Only daring AM
insolent men. pcrchanre 20 there. Simple races,
as savages. do not climb mounta.ns-tSer tops
are sacred and my sterous tracts never visited by
them. Pomola Is always angry with those who
climb 20 the summit of ktaadn.
found my companions where had lett them
on the side OF the peak, gathering the mountain
cranberes which filled every crevIce between the
rocks. together with blueberries which had
spicier flavor the higher up they grew bat were
not the less agreeable % our palates. When the
country i settled and roads are made, these cram
berries will perhaps become an article OF com
merce. From this elevation, Just on the skirts OF
the clouds we could overlook the country west
and south for a hundred miles There - was, the
State Of Maine, which he had seen on the map.
but not much like that Unreasonable forest tor the
sun % shine on that Eastern stHD we near OF IN
Massachusetts No clearing no house. IL did not
look as If a solitary traveller had cut 50 much as
a walking stick there. Countless lakes Moose
head in the southwest forty miles long by ten
wide like a cleaning silver platter nj the end OF
the table Chesuncook. eighteen long by three
wide without an island Millinocket, oa the south
with its hundred islands and a hundred others
without aname aud mountains also, whose names
for the most part, are known only TO the Indians.
The forest looked ike a firm Grass ard, aud the
effect of these lakes la It's mlsst has been wei
compared by one who has since visited this same
spot, 70 that Of mirror broken into thousand
fragments, and wildly scattered over the grass
rejecting the full blaze OF the sun. Ii was
large farm for somebody when cleared