Litchfield enquirer., 1849-08-09
No. IS. WHOLE No. 1919.

about. They are the salt of the earth,
A country that has none or few of them,
he says, is in bad way. Like forest
which has no roots, but has all turned
into leaves and boughs, which must soon
therefore, wither and be no forest. Ne
YER we tru~t, shall that be true of the
Green Mountains.
We noticed in the quarries and mar
ble-shops of Rutland county, that YER
mont supplies the mind, Ireland and the
OK the muscle. Native boys are exer-
clsirg themselves in statuary marble
there, that may yet become American
Canovas or Thorwalsdeus. We went IN
to a marble-yad in Rutland, where Our
attention was drawn to robust, manly
lad, of sixteen, whose father said he had
had piece Of marble and mallet in his
hand ever since he was two years old,
and that he hoped yet to send him to
Italy. Vermont is anywhere at Wash.
ingtOn by her Collamer; in the isles Of
ocean and the Orient by her missionaries
in Constantinople by her Marsh; and
may yet be in Rome by her Rutland
marble-boy, as we'll as BY her Powers.
Whoever from the sunbaked city Of
brick and mortar, wishes to dodge the
dog-star in the months Of July and Au-
gust, could hardly do better than HE to
the Clarendon Springs, from Bellows
Falls by railroad and coach across the
mountains, or from Whitehall west of
them, through scenery lovely as possible;
or directly up from Troy by stage through
Bennington and Rutland, "a miles. Any
fugative from cholera or traveller that
loves nature, can spend few days there
with great delight, unannoyed by the
fumes of alcahol or tobacco, and not tram
meled by the forms of more fashionable
watering places. When art shall have
done for the place 1.-THE of what nature
has, they will be greatly frequented.--
The very grateful mineral springs there,
whose curative properties are supposed
to be indebted wholly to the gases they
contain, Especially Of nitrogen in the pro.
portion OF 9S.45 cubic inches to the hum
dred, will always be lssorted to for scro.
fula, cutaneous complaints and the drop
sy. Honest old farmers about there, and
residents at the spot, tell Of marvellous
cures, from the time the healing virtue Of
the water was FIRST discovered by some
Imprisoned mowers working in the mea-
dow where it gushed out, down to the
present season. AS natural cosmetic,
perhaps there is no mineral spring in the
country its superior The feminine con-
stitution especially, and that Of numerous
children and babes, at once yield to the
strangely renovating potency Of these
waters, that are to the taste quite as
grateful, and no way different from the
coolest and most pellucid water-springs.
Let some enterprising hydropathist unite
with it a water-cure establishment, for
| which there are unequaled natural facili-
ties, and it could easily be made to eclipse
Brattleborc. or any other such institute
in the country. Let the hydropathic
Pnessnitscs Of America 60 see it for then-
selves and say.
Since we have viewed it in part, we do
not wonder that Vermont boys SO passion
ately love their State. and find themselves
hankering for their native hills in the d.
verse and distant regions where their in
heseat energy, and the worlds want Of
such men as they. have carried them
We have met with them the world over,
BY sea and land for where is It that they
are not2
And not mothers son of them but
ionged for those goodly Green Mountains.
It would be a shame. indeed, If they did
not. and they would be unworthy to be
born there; for where more gloriously
does nature weave for God the garments
we see Him by? Her Heaven.aspiring
hiM-ucps. her clouds, her green sward
carpet, her trees, her lakes, her brooks,
her russet lawns and vallies. and fields Of
clover. ought they not to be loved, and
the God that has decked them in all theie
glory?
"Be mute, who will, VIM can,
Yet will praise thee with impassioned voice.
My lips that may forget thee in the crowd,
Cannot forget thee hetst where thoa hast buile
For thy own glOsyi''
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