The New York herald., 1870-05-27
MIDSUMMER RETREATS
ne Season Of 1870 In the 0atskin
Mountains.
WA1 Should and Who Should Not Visit This
Dtsort-xagnihcsncs Of tho Scenery -Cspa-
city and Accommodations Of the Hotels--
somsthing About Eating-A Mountain
Sunrise Filming, Dancing and Gro
queting-The Retreat Of Tour
ists, Poets and Literary Men.
CArsKILL MOUNTAINS, May %, 1870,

ists Poets and Literary 4en.
t CATsKILL MOUNTAINS, May %, 1870.
People living inlani seek the seashore and
Sh0ss dwelling by the coast desire the mountain
CIR. Such mutual interchange OF localities oon-
auoes 70 health and enjoyment which require vary
ing temperatures and Interesting novelties; and In
order 70 carry out this law IL Is found that one sum-
mer retreat is but the complement Of the other.
Long Branch affords New York the ocean, the Cats
kill Mountains cool, refreshing breezes and superb
scenery, and Saratoga mineral waters and gay
amusements. Philadelphans rush TO Cape May for
1ne bathing, to the hls OF their own undu uating
State, and compete with metropolltans for the rule
OF the numerous sprngs-Saratoga, White Sulphur.
Richneld and Sharon. Hence the Catskill Mountains
are patronized chiefly by residents OF large CITES on
the Atlantic seaboar, but there Ia very large class
OF both sexes who are drawn hithcr by the
magnl1cence OF the views aud the bewidering
splendor Of the vast mountains and the gceen deds.
1t il the broal expanse OF nature, the Typographical
features OF the hs and des tho strange tradi ions,
mysteries that attach to dark recesses, secluded
waterfalls and hidden strea rs, speechess wonder
Overtaking the coidesr hearts, that make these
mountains what they are In history and lit rature.
And beyond attractions Ike these. and the cool,
vitazing almost champayne-lIke airs AMI the goo
hotels the reader viii not readily perceive what
there Is III this vicinity 10 render IL desirable SUM-
mer residence. But 10 many what have been named
are more than sunlclent with
HEAVY MARGIN
for local troubles aid disasters. The lady OF
fashion, who Is most pleased when she Is
tittsriDg with gaudy snob over the lofty
periods or the latest intellectual mscar-
rage; the woman OF the old, who ngul
about the hotes Of Saratoga French heeis, driven
10 slent despair over corses O. trey too Snail, ad
which support a busC much small II stu, an who
carries her accomplishments u.on her checks aid
h0r manual dexterlty IN her BOSOM the Il ping
MSS VINO shouli yet be among moods and lenses
but Who longs Tor last horses last men ana ast Wa
tering places; the poor mliiel drl ig anon the
dangerous rocks OF the thirties, tie y,nn who his
the other sex Oh The b.aln, The youth VINO has the
0ther Sex at MS purse, tue scented griAning els-
TIC piaDe cowDish IDIOT who Is "a nice ieilr, you
kn0w,n and the mercantile lnan whose yisare Is q
I've dollar b--all vi Inese people could never az.
precla tue Cav I'll. Mountains. Hencs they are
2uvfsed to keep away.
Merous young gentlemen In New Y0.k VINO
are On the l1okoaS for u sighing and romautc
hee, become ia. .taros over the scenery are wooed
by, won and married to the c.ouds tile great oaks
square miles linkling poetry. Beyond this exccp.
the Iatsklll Mountains.
THE GREAT POINT OF INTEREST
ues PACK tweive niles from the Hudon river, and IL
the pros. ect obtaincd f.om the rocky ledge about
Loo iest to The rear Of the .aountaln House.
You nVw stanu 2700 icer abos the level plain be-
fore YOU and over 0)O square miles OF undllatinT
ncnly cultivated ana lrutIl co4ntry Is incudsd IN
your range OF visun IL Is one OF those s1gnts Devvr
10 De forgottenone OF tnoss inelD Dle iilpres sons
ana eneraven scenes that lem IL With lae In nl-
You stand near the edge OF the preclplce anu al.
Tecty a. your feet descel Ids an abrupt rocky per-
ps.dlcuar Cliff, broken In outline by craggy masses
9. noss-Gros granite. ling down TO an earths
sc from whicl the mountain side parsues roll
v 1 pss s s seep p, aeSy sWnsepns on to ne
Win the green meadows a. Its foot 1his Is but the
preliminary the foreground, and wonderfully diver
Sed la detaii as 1t ls 1t contributes but preface
90 the gorgeous picture stretching away the dis
ts1t horizon. luxur aat growth OF frs, spruce.
ceda.s, elms and map.es tnicK poyulate the moul-
saln side, and towering above them and over all
are the dark tnts aud decayed, rotten
And then before you IL rolling, sway ing,
ever. moaning sea OF foliage tossed by the
brisk breeAes iato Changing tiass teom the ligat-
est green TO the deepest blue. Six hundred feet
low you is such forest OF underground and
leaves. continuing to the waving outline
soon-gasneriDg monotony and, gazing beyJnl, be-
fore YOU is mapped out the country, plainly visible
aud 200 mics northward and southward. Here are
beauty, the picturesque, majesty and grandeur.
Here you see the rude convuissons Of
PRIMITIVE CREATION
IN the nazy looming mountains to either hand, and
below The fourishlng cultivation OF the farmer and
dis ant that the eye cannos detect any elevations or
depres slons Of TERRITORY, though the area s iitte
memory is searched for comparison only to ex-
hume contrast; the eye opens with wonder AMI
closes with increduiity. And vast as tnls vast
eon Which seeks to PANT the country al higher
altitu -es than have yet been ATTAINED by
diferlng ouy In degree from q view obtained
from the highest poit of the heavens; IL is view
similar to that we would obtain were the sky lined
by a ii in OF quicksilver and were the heavens but
one vast Mirror rejecting the scenes, actions and
movements Of everything on elrih.
And here It might be well to observe that should
some shrewd Yankee raise O SOCK company for
making looking ass OF the vault of the heavens,
and succeed practically Ia CARR ing out the pro-
ject, il is 70 be hoped that he will not charge al
much for scenic employments as they do lt these
dear lovely, catkl mosnsai,. But, But Of courss
prices. Admitted; but et US have everything on the
mountain stye. II you have
In the prices let us have dignity In the food. There
Is nothing 30 iusctousy agreeable us TO see nice.
reposlng pom d. niie dish and brought by q.
ni1ied ser, ant to be slowed in dIgnined stomach.
People IKE dignity IT. y carried out; but when You
there. This mon applies 70 some OF the hotes
about the Ca,skl Mountains, and Is food for re1ec-
tion where there Ia not i0od Tor the stomach. l
brcakfasted at a somewhat celebrated house here
anu the vlcsuals this Is tne elegant name for
regions II owned a firty year Old hen struck by
lightning, and the hlde OF lean COW tanned BY the
frosts oI twenty winters. Waat the coLee Distllla
10 fields rye than to Java or Borneo. 1t IS not
surely the best ting an the world TO exchange beef
steak for leather 10 the myrnlug IL acts on q man.
II acia badly.
But this diversion broke In upon
THE SCENERY.
A. the visitor stands moving his eye over the grand
spe, tace In repose as 1t appears from the
peak tnere is nothing more apparent than the diver
nity, the llnaton ol art aud rude n.tiIre, the
marriage of the picturesque and the cultivated beau.
tiful.
LOoki the great plain seems as sheet OF liquid
greeA iyng Ia equilibrium OF the foot of the noun
fan while uEOl It's surface iOat fences roads, white
cottages, whole vilIages--al soltened by distance
size by miles OF intervening space. And where is
there more glory, more OF the opulent inspiration OF
grand view than in the sunrise aud sunset from,
tn LOFTY attitudes The moon has gone TO its rest
aud morning ID about TO break. There Is a heavy
m m sslnes5 ana @ tsc gray streaks plaid the clouds.
phere becomes loaded with changing ether. Then
There Il Ieddenlug OF the eastern SKY; looming Of
the crimson sun. Moments are gone. The slow
panorama Is moving into light and soon the prospec.
IL suffused by wealth OF golden beams, and tho
plans, the matchless mea OwS, the Bwaying foliage