Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-10-11

SIDES OF FuSl J anna. ANY one can see
from the very configuration Of the group
of islands that they must be full Of pic
+ turesque beauty Their breadth is, at
best, 80 narrow and their coast line 80
deeply and frequently indented and
they rise 20 high above the sea, that the
brooks and rivers which are formed upon
the highlands must plunge seaward in
splendid cataracts ami through Wild elens
and valleys with an endless and charming
variety OF landscape. Beauty enough at
every step we found when we went ashore
at Simoda not the languid beauty of the
tropics which we had left behind Us in
Siam. nor the fat ugliness OF Shanghac
from which We had more recently escaped ::
but the fresh life OF merry mountain
brooks, and the green hills and rugged
rocks and pine-crowned mountains Of a
climate hardy a, our own New kn9land.
There was everywhere the beauty of cul-
tivdtcl fields. Of tcrraccd hillsidce. Of
roadside flowers and shrubs If only we
might have gone inland and explored the
picturesQuenes, Of the interior
Y few weeks later, at the more northern
port OF Hakodadi. we had the chance 10
make Am excursion ten or twelve miles
from the shore II was in this very month
Of October, Just ten years ago. DO not
know how often, as | walked about the
country, Was reminded OF home, for
iEakoladi /, III the same latitude with New
ork. and the climate and the look Of the
landscape. and the trees and flower, and
rpcncd harvc-t- all about H.. we're the
same "a. one sees in our own land. \ spot
ted lily or yellow golienrod, or tail
holly hook, beside the road, or the bright
astere blossoming among the graves, car
ried one thoughts across the leagues of
ocean and Of continent To the remotc>t
West and to the familiar scenes ot home
Here in japan. as in Connecticut and New
\ ork. the fields were white with the bios
soming harvest OF ckWheat and We even
continued the resemblance 90 tar a~ to
make il furnish u, the bucbvhcat cakes for
breakfast which we would have had in
Yankee land. There were yellow pump
Kin. which in New England would have
promised eloqucntv OF Thanksgiving day.
Our maize or Indian corn had just been
gathered herc-though how these Japanese
had come by what was reckoned as eXclu-
siyely an American production, could not
imagine There wa, the cool and braciug
weather Of our own October climate and
the smoky October air >oitening all the
landscape. and the yapor-braided sky 80
and the grass beginning 20 look dry and
brown. and che>tuut-tree~ waiting till the
frost should open their Green tuCS and
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