Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-01-15

pom the southern side Of tins valley. a
ittle further along, are the Cathedral rocks
and spires outlines Of buttressed walls and
lofty towers In which we may trace q resem-
blancc t. the facadc Of the ministers Of York
and st Gudule Of Brussels Those edihces
may be TWO hundred feet high. but these rise
twenty-iour hundred. Still further along We
stand amazed before the grandeur and beauty
Of the Sentinel Dome. an isolated rock, gray
and hoarv. it's apex about four thousand feet
above tie floor of the Cathedral
Upon the opposite side of the valley are
three peaks overlapping each other in such
way that they presented humorous idea to
the Indians, who called them Pors-yom-pa
SIS. mountains playing leap frog; which
somebody has changed to the " Three Broth
ers.
The Indians called one Of the loveliest falls
in the world Pi-wi-ack-Falling CRYSTALS
which has been changed to kernal Fall
While we are about it why not change Win
neresaukc to Lake Muggins, or the Pimege-
wassctt In River Andrew johnson. in honor
Of the President
Leaving our horses by the lake. we climb
over loose stones up the bed ola rivulet now
dry. till we can stand at the foot Of the dome
upon the south side Of the valley. We are
perhaps 700 feet above the lake measuring
the altitude by the tall frs growing there.
We might fire bullet from our position and
fatten 1t against the walls Of the opposite
dome-so narrow the chasm; vet 1t is four
thousand feet from the water of the lake TO
the apex Of the North Dome
Turn now and look up the gray wall against
which we have been leaning Measure the
hight ofthe almost perpendicular slope, eigh
teen hundred feet at an angle of eighty degrees
and then behold it rising, straight up, twenty
five hundred feet more Ii is not dome
complete in all its proportions, for the nor
thern half has been cut of and removed.
leaving no satisfactory evidence as to what
has become Of it. Laya round Dutch cheese
upon block, and with one stroke OF n cleay-
er cut it through, and the cleavage will not
be more smooth and complete than this.
1t is between five and six thousand feet
from the lake to the summit of this river
dome. No exact measurement has been OBJ
taned for it is inaccessible. Five thousand
two hundred and eighty feet make a mile
Measure the distance along the road; think
ofth White Mountoins as riycn from the
Tip Top House down to the leveI Of the sea-
the cut as sharp and clean as if made by one
single stroke Of the sword of the Almighty
Such is the architecture of this cathedral
How insignificant and contemplate the gran
dcst structures from human hands when COM
pared with this The abex Of the dome Of
ST Peters, the noblest edifce of ChristendOm,
is about four hundred feet high, and men
stand beneath it and gaze in wonder at the
vastness and immensity admiringithe geniusof
Michael A gelo which could plan such an
edifce But what is st. Peters to this? less
than the little block house reared by a tod
ding child upon the parlor floor.
My friend Richardson exclaims, % See Yose-
mite and die" Not so. See Yosemite and
live, that it may be moreover a beautiful
vision CARLETON.