The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-08-16

the con- mand of a fashionable ,iocto
Nature, of itself, is not sufficiently at
trac,ivc for artificial society; SO ia
one must either be Ill or be ieG, in 4
to adopt what is really good, aud surround
it with allurements Of French cookery
fast horses. band Of music, and wcekl,
balls. 1t was many years before Sarato
ga and Newport ripened from n simple
well and wild sea shore into the luxur.
liant style of Bath and Brighton. Yet |
do not despair of seeing the day when
the Maryland Glades, the head waters OF
Potomac and Cheat, and the romantic
cascades of the ncichboring Blackwatcr
will be crowded with health hunters -
The turn of Nature to be in fashion again
must come, round for when invention
cxhausts the artificial, (and the age oi
hoops seems verging on that desirable
end, } there is no resource but simplicity
There are numbers Of reasonable people
who must be eager to quit the beaten
paths, and escape to spots where they will
not be stifed by society and these
elaacs and mountain streams, with their
constant coolness and vcrdure, are pre-.
cisely tie places for them. For several
years. many of our Maryland and Vir,
ginia sportsmcn have been fishing the
streams beating up the deer, pheasants,
and wild turkeys driving over the fine
upland roads; drinking the pure water !;
exercising rcbustly for a month or more !;
sleeping soundIy every night Of July and
August, and getting back to their work
in the fall as hearty as the bucks they
made war with on the mountains
Let NE recommend Oakland 70 a cook
who wishes to make reputation on vcri.
son and trout, and to belle who is brave
enough to bring Nafure into fashion,!
We slept at Oakland. The mists hung
high over these highlands long after
sunrise, and the air was so bracing that
We found ovcrcoats necessary as we bow
led across the gre4. You gLioghcny, on n
single arch oftimber and iron. and passed
the picturesque Falls Of Snowy creek,
where the road quits the prairie end
strikes glen through which the stream
brawls in foam, contrasting brsvely with
the hemlocks and laurels that line tho
pass.
At Cranberry Summit the mountain.
levels and glade lands terminate, at an ell.
ovation of 2, $50 feet above tide, aud on,
y 70 feet lower than Altamont, where we
entered TIE field, twenty miles back.
From this elevated point VIC catch the
first grand glimpse of the "Wcstcrn
World" in a long Or dua! sweep down
the Alleghanies toward the atiluents of
the Ohio. The descent begins intautly,
along the slopes of Sa.lick Creek, through
mass Of excavations, two tunnels, aud
fifty .eet Of viaduct. Downward and
downward we swept as comfortably as on
a plain, till al easy and almost iIpercrp-
tible descent of twelve miles, through
forest of frs and pines brought us to the
dark waters Of Cheat RIVER After the
dIfficul,ies of ascending, crossing the
Backbone ofthe Allegheny, and descend
ing its western slope-all Of which, like
Columbus discovery, "scem SO easy
now that they are overcome--a new mar
vel has been accomplished in the preser-
vaton of a high level by massive vioducts
and by boring the mountains with tun.
nels. On Cheat River. at the bottom of
this descent we approached the first Of
these marvcls, two noble arches Of iron,
firm and substantial as the mountains
they join. Then comes the ascent of
Cheat River Hill. Next are the slopes
Of Laurel. and its spurs. with the river
on the right till the dell Of kycr's Run
eye Hollow crossed on solid work whose
foundations are laid deeply below the lev.
el of the road Both of these splendid
structures have walls of masonry, built
of the adjacent rock.
Beyond this We reach Tray Run, which
is passed by an iron viaduct, six hundred
feet in length, founded on massive base
Of masonry as firm as the mountain itself
All these remarkable works--chiehy de-
signed by Mr.. Fink-have borne the
trial of heat and frost, travel and trans
portation for several years; and when
closely inspected their immense solidity,
security aud strength, are as easily tested
by the eye as they have been by use and
time.
These beautiful structures had hardly
been passed when We wound upward
across Buckthornc Branch, and half
mile further, left the declivi,ies of Cheat
River, with its brown waters dyed by the
root of laurel and hemlock, and borderedby
the bright flowers of the rbododendron
Our last glimpse Of this mountain river
was through tall arch of forest, rounded
off, far below, in its dark valley of unin-
habited wilderness.
Beyond Cassidy's Ridge, we cncount-
cred another, and perhaps the most re-
markahle of these gigantic works. The
road can only escape from its mountain
prison by bursting the wall. Up hill
and down hill, through break and ravine,
it has cleft its way from Piedmont, like
a prisoner seeking release from his bars,
TIL at last it finds bold barrier of220
feet abruptly OF posed to its departure -
For a while (beforc tho entire completion
of the road, engineering skill led track
ouer this steep By an ascent Of 500 feet
in a mile but finally the giant has been
subdued, and the last great vail Of the
Aneshanies passed by piercing the noun
tain For nearly three years crowds Of
laborers were engaged in blasting through
solid rock the 4, 100 feet of the Kincwood
Tunnel and year and half more was
spent in shielding i, with iron and brick,
so as to make its walls more solid, if pos
sible, than the original hills.
For FIVE miles from the western end of