Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-03

II pr~i aud---or "a sixty DAYS f''p
AGfoss the Atlantic,
sxxt ruRE DELIVERED OK COL. GFonaEI
III MERRILL, BEFORE THE YouNd
urN's CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, FRI
. DAY EVENING, JAN. 18TH.
Edtes and Genflemel, lin what l
say tonight, shall give you the
sentiment, with almost literally the
words, as contained in the familiar
Dr. I yfSte to friends in America dur
- my absence, curtailed somewhat
though fear now too long for your pa
tisnce, as / cannot detail all the incidents
u dxty days in sixty minutes.
Jply 2AEd, 1869, I was passenger in one
IL tbo Allen line of steamers plying be-
Atwsen Quebec and Liverpool. AS the last
Ill struck the hour for the Peruvian's
ESparture the day became bright, CLEAN
y Sunshine spread over her, betokening
y Her more than hundred passengers a
sosant and quick voyage.
Quebec, l need not describe as many Of
yohT have visited and seen its walls and
.nonuments commemorative of the fallen
W6fe and Montcalm, whose defeats and
yiotories are yet redolent with their chiv-
5Iric character. The Plains of Abraham,
spreading raway to the south from these
mural sentinels which recall the deeds
81 It's contestants, overlooking the river
st. Lawrence, presents to the eye piano.
ranfc view and impresses upon the mind
'both from its historic associations and for
sIits national Importance to us in that it
will at no distant day add another star to
the expanding crown of the United
States. Though distance of 400 miles
from the sea the st. Lawrence little be-
low the city is three miles wide, which
narrows to mile abreast of the citadel,
having at both points sufficient depth of
water to float the largest shipping in the
world, rise and fall of 20 feet in its
udes and space enough between Cape
sDhmond on the one hand and the Isle of
I0rleans on the other to afford room and
me HORACE for i thousand sail of vessels at
ksfme. Six or seven miles below are the
Tals of Montmerenci, 40 feet higher than
I Mic CARA, seemingly suspended in the air
in i sheet of billowy foam.
HE scenery down the st. Lawrence
and Gulf on either side was next des-
oribed by the speaker, which spoke well
of the tastes anb means of the inhabit-
anti The voyage across the Atlantic was
marked by nothing unusual to ocean
iyoyagors, it being characterized by but
c. M usual expanse of sky and water, sea-
y ia kness and five meals a day, with the
easurUs Of promenading the deck, Sun
IN worship and the general pastimes.
Nter describing sea-sickness the Colonel
M1oid that be did not want his friends to
n {mhgine him one of the number, lone of
tn sufferers, and we do not think he
We, asQio one who has ever felt the in
lhrnal connection of such a sickness can
r Peak OF it in such graceful language as
Mr.. Merrill But be loft us some
~ in doubt when he closed with Z" as
MI Murray says in his Adirondack,
=, Iwl on he has told an improbable story, if
IJou doubt il, ask John, the Guide"
n The pleasure Of seeing the Irish coast,
sher several days at sea, clothed in its
pei green verdure, was wildly described.
Tbs verdure il peculiar and lit up the
WI pie hud scene most cheerily yet as we
spProached nearer and continued to feast
our dyes upon it, It paled, striking me at
IeaS as wanting the character of our green
fslls ut home. Look upon the map and
yot will see we first saw Torey Island,
alone in the sea. 1t has light house
and keeper upon it, then booms up bold
AMI raggedothe Donegal coast, the Island
! d lnnisprahl, and now we pass around
: lnhis-hoen O Head, with the Martello
TowSr, giving a noddiug welcome, for it
a set med to beckon us, from the motion i'm
clpaf ted by the ship. just back of it a
} roeky promintory shoots skyward, and
4 upon it's very point, dipping close down
Ito the sea, there stands the ruins of an old
castle, raising the wonder in your mind
what there over was or ever could be to
defend in its oceanic desolation. Rugged
me- uutains of bare, brown rocks, treeless
and soilless, it can have been reared only
and sicily as a0barrier to the tumultuous
vRes, and yet in its desolation, and not
oniy here but for miles on and on there is
sgandeur and boldness daguerreotyped
ngy mind that "will be a joy forever"
rs ieSuch moments, rare in our lives,
W we sigh and say, 80 if our friends,
Wed ones at home, were only here to
boz upon this scene, to feel the inspira-
tion of the moment, the heart rising and
waying as bow and stern of our good
ship, went up and down and over the
waves"
August Sd, he passed the Isle of Man,
. watering place of summer tourists, the
abrupt mountain piles and lovely glens of
which were delightful to the eye. Noon
Of the same day found the Peruvian
steaming up the Mersey, she soon passing
the magnificent Liverpool docks on the
one side and the towns of New Brighton
and Birkenhead on the other, previous to
landing. The glory of Liverpool is its
docks and the warehouses upon them
These along are worth trip across the
Mantle. They We're built and are now
oWned by the city--are of solid masonry
VIII expensive and artistically designed
utments-piers and iron draws-to adj
nit vessels to convenient and safe moor
~, from winds or storms, each vessel
Golng to its allotted dock as do locomotives
horses to their stalls. The police are
anywhere about them-civil, and SEEM
to think it only their duty to answer
4 pstions, and still more, to give you all
information they possess. Full three
ynrs were spent in driving along these
piiss Of masonry, while the warehouses on
them would take in and cover over the
. he,