The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-10-17


boots, anxious 10 substitute grassy lane
or rocky hill sides for the ntg.,oncs o
avenues; lads, t. whom climbing o
fruit trees and rowing boats were pleasant
"reminiscences of some foregone year; anl
finally, children, who longed for change
and whose little frames needed all the
oxygen and exerci-e their anxious parent,
could procure for them.
Such, doubtless, was large portion o
the precious freight Of our Floating pal
ace whose magnlicencc proved to II.
rather Of the Dca-Sea-applc sort as we
had arrived upon the scene of action tor
late TO procure comfortable quarters for
the night, and, in add ton. soon afcr
daybreak found ourselves aground within
sight Of Albany, and with ~ prospect OF
release until after the dep ,rturr of tn,
train for Whitehall. At a few moment.
and knew that our journeys cnl was
now po-tr ned some four and tw,n'y
hours. We aftcrwnrl learned that 10y
taking the boat to Troy we would have
run less risk Of delay, as the Whitehall
and Rutland train u-ually awtils the
arrival OF said boat. At nine O'Clock we
reached Albany, AMI one of our number
spent a dreary day, battling with head
ache and tho cnnni OF little. four year
old, who could extract no amusement
from the unsnggestlye walls Of hotel
Tarlor. Ab TT five in the afternoon we
left for Whitehall, where we purpo~el
passing the night. This movement iii {
not one whit expedite the completion oi
our journey, but Offered a change of place.
and an additional hour of rest in the
morning, rs the lake boat train from
Whitehall was the Stmc that left Aiban,
shortly after seven.
We found Whitehall Il homcly ltd
town. in picturesque situate OH, on ia.
-dc of "a steep hill, past which WIN Is the
canal, AMI under which Hundred tie
train that on the following morning bore
us to the lake, where the pleasant steam
boat United States awaited her dai Y
cargo. The upper portion Of Lake Cham
! plain l. very narrow, an the channel de-
vio 3; the shores are somcimcS m lrshr.
som times rocky, AMI the bordering hills
have softly swelling outlines Oar da,
was hazy, and the Green Mulna aims o.
Vermont seemed tpptiug in some spcci ..
of celestial atm sphere sad lnly descend "a
upon that fair S.ac. We pissed tin
NlrrowS "a singular, rocky cleft. though
which flows The lake,, AMI soon after
came 10 Iicondcruga, "itn its ruined for,
and environing hills.
After leaving Crown Point. the lake
becomes much wider, AMI at Port ilnnr,
spreads out into noble cxpan,e of water
Benin Port Henry, the Alir ndack
peaks already begin to form towering
background. Wc,tp,rt, howcvcr, has "a
still more beautiful ituatijn The lake
there is very broad the sloping shores
are wooded the high st peaks of the
Green Mountains ave visible To the east
AMI northeast, and the AIi-onlac- rise
! tier after tier, toward the west
On TIE bo were wounle sollers
going to their homes Poor fellows :!
They had leti their plopghs and lheir
nnllvc hills, to find wounds an | fever. in
Virginia. When one looked upon the
Tranquil Ike and halo crowned mountain,
it seemed almost imp ls>ihe that the pas
srns of evil m.n slouli have power to
draw even that placid region INTO the
vortex. and hurl back its den zens Scared
aud scathed, to suf,r amr it, beauty.
And yet were these m N the very marrow
aud kernel of the landscape, the defend
ers of the soil, the patriots who were vii
linz to give themselves that their country
might remain one AMI undivided. that
the 'home of the brave might in Iced be
he land of the free
At Weslport we lett the bolt and
'und the stage to EhllhcihIown. a
01cE00a"' ALREADY crowded with pls,en
gers An nm close at hanl furnished
Us the only covered wagon we chanced
to see during our ten weeks s3Joun
among the Adlrondacs 1he drive 10
Elzlbethtown (eight mil s. was hot AMI
dusty, Tor we faced the western sun, an |
the long summer drought WAS Ju't th.n
commencing to ~ Ike itself felt. Never
iheleS-, there was beauty enough by the
way wa, S''1 , ~ ''''Ne ono 'o'S'' sue" MINOR
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