Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-01-02
FROST.
By E. HARRINGTON.
Ahing ofbeoutyis a Joytorerer.-KEA1

AA'ng ofbeautyis a Joytorerer.-KEATs
Memphremagog, beautiful Lake il
Canada and Vermont, riveriike in widtl
and about thirty miles long, is quietly
nestled amid rough mountain scenery
and Immediately surrounded mostly by
tillable lands of excellent quality. Its
seventy miles ofshore, the natural DEPOT
OF the valuable timber and other com.
merical resources; its Limestone for ma.
sonry, its Novaculite for whetstones; its
convenience as a link in the line of tran.
sport and travel between the large cities
and the beauty Of It's scenery, so attrac.
i've to The tourist, give it an importance
that will ere long be'more fully appreci-
ated.
a glimpse at this lake, and n full and
fair view of the mountains scenery that
lies about it, constitute a scene of or, a.
beauty, as viewed, at any favorable time.
but especially about shutdown, from the
handsome town of Stanstead, and partic
ularly from the verandah of Winn's Ho-
tel. Jay Peak, six miles within Yer
mont, and one Of the proud eminences Of
the Green Mountain range, whose apex
displays a glittering wreath of snow more
than half the year; Province Mountain
traversed BY the national boundary line ::
Owls Head in Canada and on the lake
shore; Sugarloaf; and Oxford Mountain
which Is the highest land in Lower Cana
da, with numerous lesser eminences make
up the chief outline of the vies. west
ward
But this admirable scene is completely
obscured this morning by drop-scene of
dense yapor caused by sudden change
from mild temperature last evening to
reforming cold and what has been writ
ten Is but an upremeditated Introduction
to remarks about the frost formations Of.
last night. Although the sun rose with
uazzhng brightness, we can look directly
toward it through the thick veil of foo
which hangs gracefully over its face
The stage has descended the hill from
the long level street of Stanstead: pass-
ed the elosebuilt stores, shop and mills of
busy Rock Island traversed the brick
dashlng little river, the beautiful Toni
foba; and instantly crossed the line that
long before it was indicated by the sub
stantiantial iron boundary of the Ash
burton treaty, when smuggling was
hazardous business, and all sorts Of
ro9ues were safer out of their own conn
try than in it, many a wayfarer, whether
ms face was to the north or to the south.
was heartily glad to turn and look bacl,
at The pleasant village of Derby Line
and Rock Island are in juxtaposition and
apparently but one community.
But as we pass along let us observe
the trostwork, the beautiful creation of
last might. The isolated Frtrecs, always
beautiful in their conelike outline and
sllyery green foliage, are now literally
covered with brilliant gems of a dal-I
zhng "hiteness every Ieahet and every
Oud having spangIe or a cluster Of da- +
monds' Every tree in the forest is alike
beautiful with little sparkling briliants {
and the work is still going on in the nm
lands. Everywhere are beautiful forma- 5
lions OF frost. Even the fences and tba
'tumps have their fanciful FINGERS. The
'oulderS but partly submerged in the I.
musical brooklets and in the River have {
ne "atermark tastefully bound round s
With ribbons of ice in various shades or 5
.o'oiinS' the seedcups remaining upon :,
ne uncouth stalks of the Burdoek are all :
'ret'y rosettes; the clustering Fern. the b
ram Goldenrod, and the proudly erect e
julien have received their full share Il
dellca'e decoration; the precocious Il q
Jus OF the Alder and the dropping leaves II Il
nd erect stems of the Flag have not &C
cen neglected by the Artist; the mod OF
st Aster Alpinus, lately decorated viii of
$ own pale blue stars of beauty, is now NJ
Isl as modesily spangled with frostper0s. -,
"a the Thistle, always the rough and op
attending antagonist of suavity. stands in
an affected attitude of arrogance with 81
preientious profusiou Of the br;gb. H.