New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-25
Rerkshirc.


SroCKBRip0E, Friday, July ~
The up.to.9Oo Fahrenheit days are upon us,
and | would give you, miserable denzens Of
NewNork, my fellow. sufferers not many days
ago, the simple, straightforward advice, TO take
the New Haven Express train at o'clock m the
morning. meet at Bridgeport the iiousatonic
train for Berks shire Co, Mass, 10y which one
may come through, without inult or failure.
break down or smash-up, rlnnlng-oh or running
ON. To this delectabe StOckbndge by precisely
seven minutes past three, according 10 contract
After a bath and good dinner II You did not
snatch /, on the road, you must take stroll the
same afternoon through the maple-lned ani
elm. shaded streets. take a look 81 the nnIqus
Episcopal Church, AT the house where Jonaihm
Edwards wrote his treatise on the hill, AT tie
old church-yard, crowded with interesting mOa-
uments. at the Indian burylng ground OF 20
years ago, preserved IN silent yet speaking
desolatlon from all cncr0achment by a title
deed good TO the end Of time, and So passing %,
return home through the meadows Just at sun.
set by the side of the gracefully winding, love
ingly lingering Housatonc In the evening you
should make friends with the visitors nj the
Hotel well bred cultivated people, hear soma
music, or smoke and chat on the piazza, enjoF
ing the cool fresh air and tie dimly-seen war
ing leaves OF the naples
Next morning you shall rise all ready and r.
freshed for a mornings ride and where shall
advise YOU to drive, when there IS such sumP
tuous assortment of rides through groves and BY
streams and over beautiful hills and around nest
ling lakes You must go to Monument Foun'
tam at any rate--because the view therer0m 10
unsurpassed In the land, and because Bryant has
made il classic by his poem. But you sh0ald 70
there IN the afternoon, for the sake OF the length
ening shadows across the valley, and the setting
sun So IN the morning let us drive lover me
hill" north, and drink II that enchanting view OIL
the tree-spanged and strelm.rbanded plain be-
low. and come IN a hallh0ur TO the "Stock-
bridge Bowl,"a lake Of three miles circomlef-
ence (about which Mrs. Sgoumey has written
the most graceful poetry OF her collectlon,l al
the upper end of which Is Nathaniel haS-
thOmes unassumlng house, without any ga.
bles' at all, lat which, however you may call, II
YOU dare to intrude Yourself on his retITacy IRON
the worldly and passing on, still due north Two
miles more, come 10 LennON, pretty, perchedup
village, where you can see Miss Sedgwlcks resi-
dence. which, unlike Hawrhornes, has more ga
bles than one would dare TO tell, IN anything et'
cept work OF fiction and has. too, lying before
IT, sweep of Landscape stretching far away 50
grand and beautiful that IT almost makes No
tears start-and return chattlly and menlly home
by another road, TO a good dinner at The S'oeA-
bridge House.
In the afternoon, you know, we arc engaged
for Monument Fountain and as we shall not get
home till IN the evening, and you must take lhs
cars for New.York IN the morning, we sayno
more about that trip, except that II Is the inens-
bic delight of all who 90, land all do CO., pro-
ylded they take along some lemonade and cake,
and Bryant's poem to read on the top.
The next forenoon viii take lively
scramble through Ice Glen, really one Of 'h'
most wonderful places ia the world, and also
stroll on to romantic Laurel Hill, only hop,
skip and Jump from the hotel. where the young
people make love to each other under the trees,
yes even on " Sacrifice Hook that you fead
about IN Hope Leslie and whore the bowers
nestle, and the birds sing, and the squire"
chifp.
But, oh if you could only stay over another
day and we would have trout FISH in BUanss
Green River and some Of those speckled beau
ties Headley brsgs so much about. How many
was II he caught-forty pounds or forty penny
weights