The Portland daily press., 1870-05-21
DAILY PRESS.
Saturday Morning, May 81, 1870.
Letter from Hiran,
Letter from Hiram.
THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY IN spRINs-,rs
NATURAL sCENERY-THE PORTLAND
AND oGDENsBURG RAILROAD.
MT. CUTLER HOUSE, I
QIpANI May 10 1910

AND oGDENsBURG RAILROAD.
Mt. CUTLER HOUSE,
HIRAM, May 10, 1870. I GO
To the Editor of the Press: .,E
We are this morning enjoying all the
balmy sweetness and glowing warmth of
summertime. Spring has nearly completed
her toilet, and placed her dainty foot on
carpet that Brussels or Administer manufac-
turers would vainly initiate. Our farmers are
busy in their gardens, fields and potato
patches, fully appreciating the great blessing
oil future harvest which is to be peculiarly
their own. The ladies are enthusiastically
absorbed in arranging plants in the new,
fresh soil of their front-yard plats, pruning
favorite rose bushes and coaxlng new cuttings
to be strong. Here in this little rivered val
ley we are not wanting in fine gardens, and
like the Peris, we can bind our adversaries,
if we have any, with chains of roses.
We take much pride in saying that our
natural scenery is unrivalled in its varied and
picturesque beauty. The principal objects of
interest are the Great Falls, the preciptous
cliffs and rugged wildness of the land about
them, Mt. Cutler and Tear Cap Hill. All
travellers agree that these falls are among the
most grand and powerful in this country.
There are two fine points of view-one from
above the falls and that from a projecting
mass of rock below. The lower view is by
far the best. We dare to affirm that nothing
can surpass it from the latter standpoint,
which commands the whole height Of these
beautiful cascades in all their magnificence.
Visitors standing near these roaring, surgng
waters are hardly able to understand each
other, for the loudest tone of the human voice
seems but a gentle whisper. A bright morn
ing lends to the charm of the scene beauti-
iul rainbow, which seems to smile compla-
Gently at the convulsive and writhing agony
beneath, I.
Resembling, mid the torture OF the scene,
Love watching madness with unalterable mien."
This picture is grand in its general effect,
and striking in Its detail. We think it will
pay Jour city friends to leave for a while
their pictured parlors and their counting
rooms, and come up here among the locks
and hills, where, comparatively speaking,
they can forget the formal restraints of socie-
ty and enjoy to its fullest extent the exhiler-
ating advantages OF rural life. We hope if
they come, they will not forget to bring a
good supply of fishing equipage for
Snow is the time
While yet the dark brown water aids the guile
10 tempt the trout"
The Portland and Ogdensburg railroad is
being constructed through this and neigh
boring towns at rapid rate; the heaviest
work being nearly accomplished Travellers
who are acquainted with railroad enterprise
do not fail to recognize the skilful engineer
ing and dexterous plans by which many diff
ficulties have been. n.and are. yet to be over
come. Ha
When this important link of a great
through route shall have been completed, it
can but afford one of the most remarkable ex-
amples Of New England energy ever cherished
in its history or impressed on the minds of
its enlightened people.
If am not making this letter too long, al
low me to speak briefly of Arcade Pond and
Ten Mile Brook, where perhaps more earnest
labori called into requisition than at any 9TH
er point on this division of the road. The
first named is surrounded byfan embowered
drive-away, which makes charming frame
work for this ee-and d-cloul-shadowed mirror.
Now and then variety of wild duck speck
the placid surface thus adding finishing
charm to its lacustrine beauty. This pond
was one of the principal obstacles in the Ioca-
tion of the railroad: and in order to secure
the most feasible and least expensive points,
the engineers decided to cross it; and now a
solid embankment is being constructed and
the sleepers and iron are already laid and are
being used to facilitate and expedite their bus
mess operations.
At Ten Mile Brook may be seen an i'm
mense mass OF masonary-the foundation of
a truss bridge of fifty feet span, with one
handsome granite 7 and one wing abutment
thirty feet high. Before another winters
snow whitens our landscape, we expect to
welcome the "iron horse" and enjoy the priv
elege of speedy communication with Port
land, our "gem of a city set in the sea-"
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