The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-03-23
CAzENovIA, March IL, 1S49
Cazenor1a Great Country, Nth its Plank Roa is
and Lake. &C.

ana Lake, $c.
This (Cazenovia) Is a" great country" ere
solved" in the language of a notorious defunct NJ
c., that 1t is " nothing else;" and although most
hilllsniously" retired from the noise and crash
OF believing engines and the bolsterous profanity o.
canal drivers, still we not to be despsed for
a that" We get the Herald nearly as soon as do
The Utcans and our means are fast increasing TOR
taking high rank among the " important places -
of the State, independent of our elevation " above
the level OF the sea- True, we are above more
swamps and look down upon more morasses, and
more apes than any other town of our size. Why
shouldn't we9 Don't the old Holland Land Com
pany live here or what is left OF it-embodled IN
divers and sundry Dutchmen, with money-bags
as round as their persons, and as full OF real yell
low Dutch gold as is California OF gold hunters
And don't these same relics OF Mynheer specula-
tioR own more land, and hold more bonds and
mortgages, and draw ten per cent on more stock,
than nall your Wall streeters? Yes, sir, we have
the govt here-the real genuine arstocratic govt,
that gives us correct idea OF the Of gas
tronOmy, DC. We are high, but we have lake
right upon the summit OF our greatness-gassy,
pune, and fresh--upOn whose frozen surface we
drive our "two forty's" in the winter; and where
in The summer enamOred swans :" row the boat
Lgn,y " over its gently heaving bosom, with
gently heavlDg bosOms and their TAR owners tor
freight. And, moreover, this same lake is In
process OF being, with some two or three creeks,
converted into mammoth reservoir, for feeding
the canal on the long level between Unca and SYRIA
cuse, taking the water through the Chittenango
Creeb--iheIeby giving us a water power unsurpa
"a III the State, aud which we are Improving in
me sbai e OF taciores and mills OF every kind;
ueitby enhancing greatly the value OF real estate,
aDo giving employment to a large Dumbsr OF new
population, mus giving us a chance TO invest our
csptal WITH certainty OF good per cent, and
addlhg directly to the importance and business of
our town.
Neither are we to suffer purgatory "from this
date III journey IRON the railroad over abvmlna-
bic hills and dlabocsi roads, to reach our place
no more Killed h, rst aud bruse bones and ,aded
womeD and blasph nous men, on account Of the
:" state OF The traveIng"-ior plank Is the man
Right upon the bank Of the ChitteAanpo. where
the wat. ~ OF the Owaheena dance to the ripplinp
music VI their own singing, winding through deep
gorges and under grand old cliffs, along past the
brink ot "The Falls" where the flashing waves
j. az down one bundled and thirty ieet--iollowing
along the bank through the subliInest scenery in
The world-a plank road is completed, the whole
length OF which you can trot your ponies-now
diving INTO a ravine where the sun never pene-
tiaies, now upon the brink Of a preciplce OF
hun red feet, and now along smooth track, gar
landed and wreathed with me evergreen and pine.
But have not time to tell you of our vilIage-of
the pal aces and parks built and laid out, some OF
them, by your New YORK merchants, tor summer
residences All this, and more, I'll tell you OF
when shall talk with you again THIS s great
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