Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1858-07-01
Lake Superior.
Sotemnity Of tie Lake The Scenery-Purity
oC the Water.

Sotemntty Of the L0he-TH he Sctnery-Purity
! Of the Water.
Anlutelligent correspondent of the Pittsburg
Commercial gives the following graphic de-
scrlPtlon OF the greatest Of the American
lakes:
The most striking Characteristic Of Lake Su-
perIor as It's sUlemnity-its deep silent granduer
Ihete Is something very impressive in broad
eAPanse OF water and in huge desert like that
OF Sahara, and even the prairics of our own
west may bcget feeling Of awe. But the
! soIemnlty OF the one is that Of giant energies
| IN rePose, Of the others that of vacuty. The
former is Intellectual, the latter is dotic, oui-
etude For hundreds of miles the Lake is
fenced in by high land, runniog up in many
places to lofty, PERCEPTIONS bluffs.
When the formation is absent, you have the
agreeahie substitute OF ridges iessening back
like turf steps, till they lost in the kindred
c0'ored sky But with very few exceptions
your eye is tortured with no level stretches
Ike those on our western rivers and on most of
our inland seas" And when you come TO a
plain of lowland upon the Father of Lakes.
there are piles of hills kindly set up by the
great Architect somewhere in the neighbor-
hood, so that when you are within eyeshot of
the shore you are sure Of varigated scenery in
some quarter. Mountain, hill, hilock, table
land, rldge-all covered with, and groaDiDn
under, the densest foliage | ever saw. But a
multitude of trees is not necessarily beautfy-
ing feature. There is a rgidity in pine forests
Tor instance, which never could admire The
outline OF the tops is quite distinct az that of
the SOIL itself, save where some one giant.
scraggy fellow thrusts his angular shoulders
above his neighbors In their place pines con-
tribute quota to the landscape, but would
have them stop far short of the horizon.
The "balsam" is the ornament Of Lake Su-
perOr. 1t is the decpest-tlnted of the ever.
green tribe. Its top Is as full and plump as
That OF the apple tree, and its leaves are SO
large and numerous as to hide the skeleton of
ITS supersructure The balsams seem to clus.
ter together in little clumps like families, each
set having graceful browning arch-so that
the appearance of a considerable forest of them
IS not unlike Lake Superior with its waves
gu look IN vain for hollow, notch. an in.
terrupton OF the free flowing outline You find
II not No axe but that Of the pioneer hewing
his little path has ever rung within these desc
late glades. AS tree after tree has persisted it
bequathed its place to a new generation, and a
few lines of the old descent la re been impaired
to the present dav.
The shores, too, are all untenanted for
leagues and leagues together. A bald white
S"I hOuSCs lbuccuy StduuS among the rOcKS at
the end of yonder wlry point, hut it might as
well be stone pillar thrown Up by some con-
VulSon' 1t bears no stamp nor superscription
OF civilized lite. The entire scene is one of
power stepped in Eve NAV say s.baL-
Sanic sluuIber. The" voice of many waters
hnd no interpreter in the painless woods
There is no one there TO note {" what the wild
waves are saying" The winds cnrvet at lei
sure among the trees on hill and in glen, and
man is not by, TO be frightened or astonshed.
The heavens may catch up the note of dscord,
and roar Ito the echo," but there is nobody to
care for 1t. The sky may be filled with light
nngs, but the woods alone suffer. There NAV
De elemental wars that would drown the noise
Ut dozen watcflooS, but they have no human
chroniclers.
The eye OF every visitor will be at once
caught with the purity Of the Lake Superior
water. 1t Is almost transparent as air ITSELF
w hen dipping in yOu must look closely TO see
your tumbler is not empty. In calm day the
bottom Is visible at depth of sixteen, twenty,
md some say forty feet. You can see the
smallest pebbles with wonderful distinctness.-
know no prettier pastme than lolling over
he edge of your little salboat and watching
he freaks OF the unsuspccting fishes below .
live your immag inaton a little line, and it is
N easy matter to couture up fairy grottoes
mong the huge rocks, and to catch the twink
ing OF ten thousand diamonds, where bits of
par are plentifully strewed about. If there
we're such lovely monstrosites as Maids or
Nermalds, | advise them to make Lake Superb
'r home. The daintiest feet could not be
olled upon its bosom.