The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-04
TEE SUMMER RETREATS,
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WHERE SHALL WE GO TOT
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BELLOWS FALLS, W., July !, less. !
The Beautiful Prospects in H9mtnt-Tyo~t Fish.
ing-Indreememts to Migrate, &c. &c.
O,ye poor, miserable Gothamites, how pity you!
While you are swelterine under hot SUM- and ast-
ing your heels on the hot pavement here am az
cool, shady and comfortable an a cucumber. have
travelled all the United States and this il the
peasantest place to spend the summer season that
have found yet. The Island House Is new hotel,
possessing all the modern improvements, and Is Is
well conducted as any house in city or country.
The drives and walks about the place are delight
full and the scenery is not surpassed in any part Of
the world. Water Is brought into the town Ia Gro.
ton and many Of the private residences are adorned
with fountains. Not much attention has yet been
paid to bathing facilities by the townspeope but Il
will not be long before every house will have bath.
ing room and every yard a fountain. About TIVE
miles from here are the beginning-to be. somewhat
celebrated Abenaqui Springs and there are several
invads here from distance for the purpose Of being
cured OF their numerous ills by drinking and bathing
in the water. Attached to the Springs very good
bathing house. and close by is bowling alley. The
water is composed OF sulphur and iron, and it is said
to be very efcacious 10 all srofulous and skin dis
eases. The SPRING. are ned by gentleman from
New YORK, and IT Ia To him alone that the public Va
indebted for the bathing house and bowling alley.
Close by this village is very high mountain.
nom tie top OF which very fine and extended view
is obtained. The mounain Is very rocky and rug
ged, and it looks To be almost perpendicular but 4
vii ding road has been made so that carriages arc
enabled to go nearly To the top. At the base runa
the Connecticut river, stream not equal perhaps "a
the Hudson, but one that is considered . some' for
this part of the county.
There are no shad in this river SO far north az
this, but occasionally pike are caught of very fine
quality, and weighing from five to twenty five pounds.
There are quite number Of gentlemen in the place
who are excellent fishermen and every season there
are several piscatry excursions made to the lakea
and trout streams in the northern part OF the State.
have but just returned from an excursion to Will
louehby Lake and the White Mountains and the
number OF brook front caught while was gone
would seem to you incredible. AT Wlloughby Lake
there is fine hotel and the scenery around is grand
and romantic in the extreme The fish caught In
this lake are species If trout called muscalung,
and somewhat similar to those caught in Lake
George and other large lakes. They weigh often
twenty-five to thirty pounds, and although they ara
an excellent fish THY are not equal in my opinion, ia
the small speckled brook trout caught in the small
streams
Yon can leave New York at o'clock A. NJ, NJ
the New Haven Railroad, and arrive at st. Johrf J
bury, the turminus Of the Vermont Railroad, at
O'Clock in the evening. good nights rest at ~
St. Johnsbnry Hutel probably would not set a NAL
back any, ard the next morning a ride of twenti
five miles to the White Mountains, twenty thru
miles to Lake Willonghby, or twenty-one miles Il
Greensborough Lake, over good road, and drawn b.
good Vermont horses, would have the effect - set
him ahead considerably and tend t. give him some
thing OF an idea Of what Nature could do in the way
OF hills, rocks and mountains, If she were only to try.
A party OF six gentlemen went tn Greensborough,
I'm which town is Greensborough Lake, a few days
since, on fishing eXcrr-ion, ard although they
fshed only two days, they cought between eight
and nire hundred trout They Ished altogether in
small streams, il heing rather too late in the season
to fish i'll the lake, aid the trout were all quits
small but am assured The sport was capital. I in
tend to go over the same ground in day or TIVE,
and will then give you an account Of my success.
RuBENs.