Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-08-06
Lake WiIIOughby.

a correspondent writes TO the Spring
field Republican the following letter con-
corning Lake Willoughby as a summer
resort The lake is characterized as - the
gem of watering places in Vermont"
WILLoUGHBY LAKE House, VT, July 80.
Dear Republican Have you ever visit
ed Willoughby, the most delightful OF all
ths multiplying summer resorts OF green
and breezy Vermontr That is not I'M
likely. but some Of your careworn read
ers have not. From Springfield to Brat
tleboro, Bellows Falls, White River and
Newport is familiar ride But Just
twenty miles before you would have
reached the latter place, the conductor
shouts West Burke, and a conspicuous
sign upon the south end Of what purports
to he tie depot, informs you that here
starts the stage for Willoughby. There
it stands, three-Seated vehicle, as it was
Yesterday, the lank driver, with his hands
clasped lazily over his right knee, having
possession of the front seat, and a mail
bag Of the second, all ready.
In a moment he rouses himself sufficient
ly to cry "all aboard" and we are off.
The ride is a little rough, but exhilarating,
Repeated once a day for a week, it would
make damaging inroads upon the most
stubborn dyspepsia. We pass very small
stores with very large signs rude saw
mills with dry mill dams, and waiting
logs of cedar and hemlock; prim farm
houses. some of them white, and some of
them wood-colored; tall women in ging-
ham sun bunnets picking raspberries by
the dusty road side, and rosy faced maid
ems in clean calico peering through the
windows Il spireless, but immediately
/, white, church, and, Just as the speech
makers tell us it used to be in good old
puritan times, the school house by its
side" or little beyond. What more
could one desire to see in short ride OF
six miles
But we are at Willoughby The driv-
err has rounded short corner, and the
glory of this choice spot bursts upon us
all at once. Was there ever such a
CLASSY, clear lake, with two such noun
tains for its guards right and left, and
such silence and beauty, and grandeur
found before And lest something should
/ be wanting for travellers Joy, Bemis
with a generous face, stands ready to give
the newcomer true Vermonter's vel
come.
The fashionable world isn't yet here
e Blessed spot May they never find it.
: warn them off 1t is not suited to theil
tastes 1t is resort for those who have
brains in their heads, and souls that have
some compass. That mountain upon the
: left is more than 1000 feet high. Ant
hn+ nd
Observation-Disclosures magnificent noun
. tain facing 1t on the right, is more thar
! 260O feet high. Its elevation above tn,
e sea is $500 feet And the mirror Of lax
V that nestles between them, six miles il
q length, and from one-half TO two miles il
breadth, has depth, which for aught MAJ
knows, corresponds to the hight of tn,
mountains. Doubtless it has a bottom
though line of six hundred feet has fail
t ed to find it where the water is suppose,
st to be the deepest. The mountain upol
5, the right, said, is very steep. For man,
;. hundred feet it rises up perpendicula
: wall, down which huge fragments of rock
l. separated from their rest, sometimes com
N tumbling with laundering noise
An old man-who was getting tn
boats in readiness for picnic party
II bound three miles up the lake-enter
in tanned me this morning with some storie
! Of falling masses from the highest poin
: which you would probably not believe
CT | should repeat them. I understand
to however, that the lake serpent's story di
h, not originate with him, and will add, fc
Nv the reinsurance Of the timid, that Ii
.. man who srapplod With hin, end the r
ported monster himself, must have haun
le. BY other waters. They have never bee
Ill seen here.
,p- But my letter is already quite as Ion