The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-09-08
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patton nor heavy bills of the springs, |
and is, altogether, the cheapest and
most pleasant, beneficial and exhiara-
ting recreation which the summer
months afford. The fare from Cleve-
land to Chicago for the round trip, q
distance of about sixteen hundred
miles, is only eighteen dollars
Qiquors and cigars oxtra.) The trip
is through four lakes-Eric, ST. Clair,
Huron and Michigan-and two rivers
Detroit and st. Clair. Boats touch
ut Detroit, Mackinaw, and Milwau-
kee. On nearly all the boats, pas
schgefs will find music, dancing, pleas
ant games, and pleasant people, and,
for those who prefer it, the privilege of
sitting in the bow from 5 in the morn
ing to 10 at night, and seeing the sky and
the water come together, and the nu-
merous schooners sail right off of the
lake and disappear in the sky. What
host of schooners and steamers have,
seemingly, gone up into the heavens,
Gone before
To that unknown and silent shore.''
We took passage on the Propeller,
st. Louis, said to be the strongest boat
and to have the safest Captain on the
lakes. Before getting back to CIeve-
land we had passed through every va
ricty of weather, clear, fogy and
stormy, and through the extremes of
summer and winter. Most of the trip
through Lake Huron was through
dense smoke, SO that tho whistle was
blown every five or ten minutes to
warn off approaching vessels. ALI
around us and all the day the fog
horns Of the schoonors-a peculiarly
desolato and melancholy sound-wero
heard, warning whatever might be in
the thick darkness to stand off. This
darkness was caused principally by a
dense smoke from the pine woods of
Maine and Canada, which had been
burning during the extreme drouth.
The heavy gale Of Friday, the 26th
ult., struck the St, Louis, on Lake
Michigan, about four o'clock in the
afternoon, The Captain stood in per-
feet admiration of the way his boat
rode the sea, as it were, patting the
propeller ON the neck and smoothing
her name, and swearing that he had
the best sea boat on the lakes. For
our own part, We want no grander
sight and no more eXhilarating feeling,
than TO stand in the.bow in such q gale
and see and feel the boat ego up to
heaven and down into the deeps. -
There is something wonderfully grand
and even awful in the motion of the
water, as it rushes away from the boat
till the lake seems scooped out to the
bottom. This is being on top of the
wave. Then the hollow begins to fill
up and the boat is at the foot of a
mountain.
There is only one drawback to all
this poetry, tho most prosy thing in
the universe, viz: sea sickness, We
stood it until tho storm had brought
down q hundred men and women, and
then began to feel something moving
in the stomach. On the way toward
our state-room, we saw our friend from
Nebraska drop something ocerbodrd.
We passed on to the extreme stern Of
the boat, and stood for an hour, going
up to heaven and down to hell, and
then, with q shudder of unspcakable
disgust, throw our dinner into Lake
Michigan, and felt better. That was
the last of our sea sickness, and it was
worth the expense Of the trip to have
experienced it. The storm saved the
captain one supper for hundred pas.
songcrs, for ofall the nauscating odors
in the World, that of food is the most
sickcning to a sca-scl person.
lfthis brief sketch shall induce any
of our readers to make the lake trip
next summer, we shall feel amply re-
warded for putting it in print. Bar.
ring the sickness, they will find
} nothing moro pleasant than this trip
IRONY ron SHERMAN,