The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-10-01


stretched, the lett covering the houses
nroun ! the Presidents new one, and ex-
tending even TO the Colleges, the right
shielding the Addison House, Mrs VAIN
wrieht's and the Court House with one
feather over the Jail-that building whose
doors open even by day TO let ont other
than Puus and Siascs we fear. a
brooding bird, mother cage, let US
think it, kceping warm the growing young
caglcts beneath, that we hope will never
be SO Vermontish and unfial as 10 fly
away from the home nest as soon as fledg-
ed,
Mr. Editor won't you and your rca'
ders come with me some of these NOR
nngs to the summit Of Chipmahs to
see the sun rise You would all he troubled
with better appctites aud better digestion
if with myself you would get into the
habit of doing such thing.
/ cant picture TO you how first of all
the sun gilds the far-ctf Adirondac!s and
then lights up the Crown Point slope
Snake Mountain, and the hills stretching
toward Bridport are next touched and
TRANSPORTED, and while you are looking,
and faster than you can watch II, the
sun breaks over the lower peaks in the
eastern range, and ID! the round patches
of woods that heck the hundred farms
sou n, west and cast of the village, are in
finn, These woods that like islands
rise out of the sea of meadow and field, or
| &c the camps of martial hosts have
Stationed single seniinels of their number
al over the plain between, to keep watch
and ward-may the axe never be wrought
iat shall cut tree from them Brooks
vile beware! Over the mountain that
just now obviously shades Chipman's Hill
q beam of light at this instant fl ,shes and
strikes you like bullet, on the check
by this time the roofs and spires below you
are all differing, the River that winds 50
many miles under your eye, lies shimm err
ing in sunshine, only the valleys under the
rauge to the east Of you AMI whatsoever the
Hill on which we stand, covers, are any
longer in shadow. The day is begun.
Let me assure Mddlcburians, as Frank
lin once told the Parisians, that the sun
actually shines as soon as it is up, and all
| have described and tentold more can
be seen up there at its rising.
What an itchins-as pass along-my
hands feel to ring certain bells ard ask for
company. The butchers are up and all
hungry househollers who scent the best
sirloin and the savory steak are hugging
their baskets and Juggling them to or from
the meat stalls, but from closed shutters and
the general silence of the streets at half
past five, | infer that most Of the Burghcrs
Oh my route have sublime faith that the
beef will hold out till 0 o'clock, and that
the sun can run its own machine for an
hour or two after rising without their help
But if, as Lamb says, grace should be
said and an crgah peal heard as prepa-
ton for reading Milton, it seems 10 me
that look at Nature and thought of
her up on yonder Hill are IA fitting pre-
lude to the day. And then as / 20 up
and come down ! please myself with
the reflection that, though still in Ver>
mont, l am treading on foreign soil. Per
haps something Of Greenland or Of the
Old World is under my feet. For you
know, Mr. Editor, that that Hill didn't
lazily rise to its present size and height by
some CONFUSION beneath lifting it up as
the ranges east or west of us were lifted.
1t is nloraine, terminal moraine, you
know. All the gravel and round, pol
lshed cobble stones that are in it-and
there are enough to Macadamize brace
Of Counties--all the sand, debris and
earth that help 10 round it out so beauii.
fully, were brought here long epochs ago,
on the backs and bellies of huge glaciers,
or frozen TO tho feet Of icebergs. None Of
that Hill is "nalive and TO the manor
born" but it has all journeyed far to
reach its present position For what
other village in the State has Nature taken
such wearIsome pains to build Pisgah
But, Mr.. Editor, there is always fly in
the ointment. Even Chipman's Hill isn't
perfect--it lacks one thing, and that is q
road to its top for foot and wheel visitors.
One doesn't like to crook around through
private yards, scale fences aud trespass
upon his neighbor's m adows to enjoy such
j shis ~ await him at the summit. That
way of geitirg up and down is too sug.
gcstive, particularly at this season Of the