Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-07-29
REPrRLLoAN SrATE 1IoKET


PLEASURE TRIPS ABOUT HOME.
Called to Northern Vermont by business,
as well as opportunity for relaxation, dropt
into the Willoughby Lake House on Friday
evening last, and found myself at home--in
more senses than one The hotel Is very
good one. of the class OF summer houses
and its table. furnished from the farm Of the
Proprietor, Col. Bemis, and from the Lake, is
not only very good in every substantial item,
but well furnished with the lighter material.
So the hotel gave home comforts but more
agreeable, and more home-ike still. was
party of about fifty persons from Montpelier
gentlemen, ladies'. and chidrcn.--the ladies
and children being decidedly in the majority.
In this party were the members Of the Brass
and.-equipped with their instruments so
music lent It's charms to all the charms of
scenery and sociality This party travelled
in their own teams, and at their leisure, and
in the course Of a week had done the most
attractive parts Of northeastern Vermont,
including Lake Memphremagog and Will
loughby Lake. They we're delighted exceed
ingly with the trip, and moreover, wherever
they went, the people they met were delight
ed with them. Now, this is pleasant, sens-
BILE, and comparatively economical into the
bargain. Why not have more trips of the
same sort Why not improve and enjoy the
scenery of Vermont; There is none more
varied. more beautiful, more elevating, this
side of Switzerland. The valley of the Con
necticut. from the Southern line of Vermont
to its Northern boundary, is superior in va
riety and grandeur of scenery to the lower
regions watered by that noble stream. Mans
field Mountain affords finer landscape than
Mt. Washington and we have heard one
young lady express preference for Owls
Head (noar Lake Memphremagog) over Mans
field. Indeed, the whole Green Mountain
range abounds in the finest of mountain
scenery. from Owls Head to the Bennington
County peaks while for Lakes, there are
Champlain, Memphremagog, Willoughby,
Dunmore. Castleton, and scores of smaller
gems. Why not make pleasure trips about
from business can thus find it almost at their
doors--at least within easy reach: while
those who want change of climate should
visit the seaboard, and those who want medic
inal springs may choose such as suits them.
As to Wiloughby Lake. reached it by
the VT. Central and Passumpsic roads, leav
ing the latter at West Burke, and riding five
miles by stage. Leaving home at 0 a. M.
q might have waited until noou,) reached
the Lake House at 7, stopping nearly tire,
hours at White River Junction. The Lake
House is at the south end of the Lake, ant
at the base of two grand old mountains. -
Both grand and old for they are huge dome,
Of granite rock, and of granite so very Ole
that the lodges are crumbling to pieces, ant
tumbling in boulders to the base. The Lake
lies between these mountains, and from the
house of Col. Bemis the shores present al
unbroken front of forest to the Northern enc
of the Lake, although in fact ride along thu
Eastern shore reveals several farms upon eacI
side. The view to the North from the hotel
extends entirely over Orleans County to Owl
head, the dome of which, at a distance O
twenty miles on an air line, is distinctly visi
BILE. OF course, from the mountain top tn
field Of vision is altogether broader. l
short, Willoughby Lake is very attractiv
spot in ones programme of pleasure trip
about home"
Saturday, July23