Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-08-02

gin to abound; and the stage sloshes
about in way frightful to all exposed
parts of the body. Yet we do not seem
TO be going over the highest range of
in the country; we are passing
rather through hardly perceptably rising
valleys; and though the mountain that
guard us on either side grow nearer and
lower to us, they always seem to be about
us rather than under US. Striking the
North Platee, as it first com es out of the
but rough and rapid as are all
the streams of the mountains at this sea-
son of melting snow, and some thousand I
miles from where we parted company with
it at Julesberg on the Plains, to follow its
southern sister to Denver; we enter upon
the night ride through Bridger's Pass,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific slopes of
the Rocky Mountains. You need to be
told what you are doing Thare is no so
slow hill climbing; the horses trot the
stage along; and the soldier escort gallop
behind. Not through valleys still, but ap-
parently along and up the beads of de-
parted rivers, with mountain walls on Ell
ther hand, sometimes ten or twenty
miles wide, and again narrowing to rods,
but oftenest miles in width on one side,
bare perpendicular walls Of rock thrown
into all immaginable aud unscientlfc COM
binations in the original or sub-original
formations, and since carved and futed by
wind and sand and rain into all and every
shape that architecture ever fancied, or
inauguration created; on the other,
rounded hillside with scant verdure and
occasional stunted tree and frequent snow
bank. Not in one continuous bed or val
ley was our upward course, but success,
sion of such, leading one into another,
So we rode on through the clear twilight
that fingers till 9 aud 10 o'clock in this
region, into the rich moonlight that only
gave new form and beauty to the rocks,
and out uto the morning dawn that has.
tens on at 2 to 3; watching the water tC
see which way it ran, and building Paclf-
ic railroads along these easy grades back
to home and forwards to fame ! was in
the saddle, gallopipg with the captain of
the escort but the earlier and more en-.
thusiastic governor of Illinois, who kept
guard with the driver on the box, shout
ed out the passage over the line-it was
no more than thank -ye-marm', in 6
New England sleigh ride, yet it separates
the various and vast waters Of continent
and marks the fountains Of the two grea
oceans of the globe. Yet it was diflicul
to be long enthusiastic over this infnites
sinai point of mud the night was ver,
cold. and | was sore in unpoetical part
from unaccustomed saddles, and | got dow
, from all my high horses, and into m.
corner Of the stage, at the next station.
The effect of the high winds and blow
ing sands and sharp raining of this regio
upon the soft rock and clay of some Q
these hills is certainly very curiou:
These agencies have proved wondcrfu
miracle workers. Wind-augurs Mr.. Fit
: Hugh Ludlow called them, believe; bu
some of his stories as to their performar
ces are purely immaginatiye and only eS
f cite ridicule among the mountaineers
. But the tall, isolated rocks, that surmoun
! a hill, sometimes round, but always eve
: and smooth as work of finest chisel; tn
immense columns aud fantastic figure
0 upon the walls of rock that line a vale
0 for miles; the solitary mountains upo
r the plain, fashioned like fortressss, or Ri
r ing like Gothic cathedral, and called butt
g Ga French word signifying isolated hill G
b mountain,) separated from their famil
: in some great convulsion of nature; tn
: long lines of rock embapkmento one abo'
r another, formed sometimes into square
;. like vast fort, and again running alon
@ for miles, hundred feet above the va
It leyc looking like the most perfect of raj
). road epbankment, with the open space 0
casionally for water course these an
! kindred fashions, with details indeserib
y ble and picturesque, constitute the so
n redecming feature for the scenery of Il
IS country have been describing. and are
IS constant excitement and inspiration to Il
v spectacle One Of the most curious sil
Is gle specimens of this natural archite
tnra that xua ns,esaJ an o,r rool Io,,