The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-07
Litter.e Ruris---AmOne the Mountains !

Iitterse Ruris---AmOng the Mountains
| m [From an Occasional Correspondent
Mountains mountainsl mountains
How the very. Dame awakans images of
healthful atmosphere, pleasant shade, leap
ing brooks, cool breezss, and freedom from
care, rest to tired nerves and weary brain,
together with a continuation of Natures
hugh masonry, lofty forms, graceful lines,
and varied hues and tInss, that make
glorious eye feast. a '9 I o -
To US it is more than name The train
has dropped us in the very midst of these
hoAry men Of all ages, and we already be-
gin to feel exalted by their society. But
the poetic musings which glimpse of the
White Hills from the car window had
started, are abruptly arrested by the pres
sure of more practical subjects connected
with the inevitable flesh. The question /
"where shall we stop" is torcibly obtruded
upon our attention as cur feet feel the rsiI-
way platform st Gorhsm. Shall we go to |
the "Alpine,n or the AGIsn,P or somewhere
elsea Two things will help to rapid de-
cision-the pocket, and the strict rule of |
esthetical taste. -Four dollars and half
per day, and on su average thesame amount
for carriage hire Is qui.e too great bur-
den for weak pocket. Then it Is direct
iy opposed 10 correct view of such visit
as we propose, to bring the fashion and
conventionality of the city into the shadow
Of these mountain submits. have come
here to press my feet and lay my soul up
on the mountain sides, and listen 10 the
music of nature. Away, then, with slip
perry halls, the music of dancing, and the
gsieties of fashionable life. Ny eyes have
been ssted with with the 80 called "water-
falls" which the ladies draw about in the |
streets. Now l have come to see the gen.
nine simon pure" living waterfalls. If ,
people will have them, enterprisin9 men |
are not 10 be blamed for keeping fashion ,
able hotels at the mountains; Yet they {
have no business to be here. Even this
car whistle is gross anomaly l
among such scenes. Mol we shall not stop I
at the Alpine or the Glen either. We 4
shall find our way to Lsry's boarding i
house, quiet retreat q mile up the An q
droscoggin, where dollar and half per 4
day will amply supply the wants of \
.he flesh, while here we find moral de- '
icious feast already spread in q
hese towering peaks, this fresh ,verdure ,
md this broad, ripping, dancing river. It 3
s only few steps from this spot to the n
'oint from which Starr King says (and il
Iour own experience will soon assure you'll b
he white hills appear to the best advSn- v
age. Here we are completely surrounded O
" an amphithester of mountains. Mount Ii
iayes is behind us, rising up in an abrupt Il
uriy attitude. Before as Is an uninterest- u
ng ridge which l had Just ventured to call, n
JsErtGtN Ridge, when l am informed that it Al
] Camel Rump. Behind it stands Wash ST
1gton, like vailed monarch IS he is, en- CT
rely hidden from view. n idison and
dams are near enough to look over the ID
1rtain while their neither extremities lie
II out TO the right uncovered. It is
1arming effect which these two half-hid- B.
an peaks produce. At our right the ag
sndolph mountains bear up their heavy tn
ad of verdure, now wearing the first colors sh
the ripening autumn. On our left the ad
-acefully relieving line Of Moriah lean at
z on the shoulder of Mount Surprise. 8
g Imp and Caster complete the circle. 1t tn
glorious theater As l sit here watch. tn
g the beams Of the setting sun as they M
ay about these mountain heads and look pr
Ter Osmers Rump, and catch the softest ds
nderest purple sitting upon the brow of er
dams and Madison. am glad l am at vi
ary's and not st the "Alpine" or the &C
ilan" ed
There lie much keen oxygen in this jni
'rning and evening sir, q fact fully de- an
)nstrzted an hour altar sunrise by an old | roo
n, doubtless the mother of a dozen Fr
oiled chickens, whom ssw standing on I'M
3 back of arecumbent sheep, warming er'
II feet in his wool There are fish in these en-
ountain brooks, but q "native tells US oI OF
at Hiolks hsv'nt allowed them to sleep d.
is summer" We shall not disturb them iol
3 are for mountain climbing. IN
Mon DENIES. gu