New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-20
THE WATERING PLACES.
From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Own Correspondent
MousrAIs Hor,z, KAhr,KuL, Sept. II 1862.
II Is surprising TO find the number OF cultivated
person. here that have made expensive journey. IN
the other hemisphere, and moreover, are somewhat
.loyed with the memories Of frequent inyGsons Of
Niagara the lakes, and the sea-sides, who have
never come ill now 20 the Kaa,skill Mountains.
They confess themselves guilty Of overnight not
logically accounted for. TIE best, and the stereo
typed apology for this appears to be that the region
10 50 accessible. A steamboat trip OF few hours
mp the lludson when the composite gories OF noon,
twilight and tue night, are excessively shed over
Highlands and the river; a railroad dive along the
bauka added 20 An exciting but not perilors ascent
in stage coach from the village of kaatskil to the
Mountain House, the latter occupying four hours,
and divorsihed AZ every turn win new iibts and
forms of hill, valley, woodland, snd Tock-theee
only over aud the place is reached; and whole
States from Massachusetts, 10 New-Jersey, with all
heir suggestion liston,s, aud possibilities greet
tie yiriou, a. though III .ealty TO cloat-cIo@ned
divinity.
Tie neglect Of this place by so many Summer
rav, l.rs IS the more remarkable, considering how II
h,.s been praised IN song and prose by emipenI
wfiterf CoOper. for example, in lie " Pioneers"
makes Leatherstocking eloquent in his praises of
views afforded here. IL is curious 10 observe how
man OF genius for sylvan life lhd option 60 snte-
IN the discovery ard description OF most effective
point. III the kaltshills. When Cooper wrote there
y ere 10 visitors here 10 all inlen,s aud porposes
il VIA. more ont OF The liue Of travelling taan the
wildnc.s OF tho Rocky Mountains i Low. But the
author anticipated n vulgar FOOTSTEPS. lie led the
WY 20 whatever speculation has done IN tie bud-
iny Of places of n'conmoda'ion for travellers here.
Tie tfbUte o. the early American nOyelist 10 this
place 10 80 sglendidly and uncompgomisingly em-
phaszed. that cunnot forbes. making An extract Of
IL as follows:
az have Travelled the woods for lfty-thfee years
said Ioalhertocking, and have made them my
home for more than forty, aud can say thai fase
urt bnt one place that more 10 my liking, aud
hat was only 10 eyo-sgut, and Hot ior hunting or
fishing" "Aud where Was thar" asked E4war,ls. !
w ere, why up on the CatsAHa. used often 10 !
20 up into the mountains gtter wolves skins and
b,aru; they brought ne 10 got them q stulei |
painter; aud so ! often went. There's place III |
them hills that | used to climb 20 when wanted 10
see the carryngs-on % the wOrld that vould well
pay any man Tor barked shin or q torn moccasin.
You know the Ca'skill- lad, for You mus, have seen
them OF le.t, you followed the river W from
York, looking ns blue as p.oco Of clear sky aud |
Gliding the clouLs their toTs, as the emokc curs
over tie head o. uu Indian Chief az u couuoll-fre
Wei. there's the iligh-pelk and the Rouud.top, |
Which La back ike Ii fatlcr ani mother among |
their children, seeing tlOy are far above the /
other bills. But the place / mean IA the next 10 !
tho river, where one OF the ridges Jets out Il
little from OF the rest, ana where the rocks |
All for the best part Of thousand feet, 50 much
I'D aud down, that man standiog their edges |
rs foo. enough 70 think be can jump from top |
To bottom" What zee you. when you get there, " |
a.kea Edwards. "Cfeatlou ~ said Natty, dropping /
che end OF Liza rod into the water, and sweelug onc
hand around him IN a circle, "ali creation lad | |
Wac on that hhl when Vaughan burnt Sopus, in the |
tar. war; aud l seen tho vessels come out OF the
Highland. IA plainly 40 | can see that lime-.cOw |
rowing into the Susquehanna, though was
twenty times farther from me than tue other. The |
riyer was IN sight for seventy miles under my feet |
looking like curlod shaving, though 1t waa eight |
long miles TO its banks. l saw tie hills in the /
Humpsbro grants, the hgh lands Of the river, and I
all that God had done or man could Do ~ Tar the
eve could lcach-you know that tie Indians named !
ne Tor my eight lad-and from the Hat on tho top OF
that mouutsiu, have often round the placs w1ore |
Albany stand, and as for Sopus! the day the royal
troops burnt the town, the smoke seemed so
near that Thought could hear the scseeches OF the
women" /" II must have been worth the toll 70
meet such n glorious siew.' " ii beng the best |
part OF Ia mile IN the air aud having mems farms
aud houses Il your feet and rivers looking ike |
1brnds, and mountaior bigger than the Vision seem.
ing 10 be hayshcks OF green gross under you gives
any Satisfaction ton mai, j can recommend the
SPOT" There's fall on the hills where
the water OF two little ponds that lie each other
breaks ont OF their bouud,, and the rocks
into the valley The stream is may be- such u one as
would turn mill, If 30 useless thing WAS wanted in
che wilderness But toe hand that made that Leap
never made mill fhere the water comes crook |
my and winding among the rocks. fist 10 slow tha
a trout could swim III it, and then starting and run
niug just like ANY creature that wanted ~ make a
,r spring. Gil it gets to where the mountain divides
like The chef, o deer leaving deep hoAow Tor the
brook TO tumble into The first pitch is nigh two
hundred feet and the water looks like takes of snow
aiore 1t touches the bottom; aud there the stream
athers ltsell together tor new start, aad may be
hullers fifty feet OF Hat rock before falls for
another hundred when it jumps about from shelf to
shelf, fret turning thsawsy and then turning tha.-
away striving get out OF tn hollow Ill it nally
comes TO the plain" al have never heard OF 4 |
spot betorol' exclaimed Edwards. "iI il no. meu,