Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-28
For the HERALD
Our Mediterranean.
BY MYRON A. MUNsON.

For the HERALD
Our Mediterranean.
BY MYRON A. MUNSON.
The Eastern hemisphere has it's Medi-
terranean, and no other water is so his
toric. It's shores have been repeatedly the
scat of universal empire, have often mon
opolized the worlds commerce., and were
the scene of all the earlier civilization.
There were Tyre, Jerusalem, Athens,
Carthage, Rome, Alexandria, Venice.
The chaiI of Great Lakes, with their
connecting rivers, constitutes our Medi-
| terranean. AS a medium of communica-
ton, its value to American empire, to
commerce, to civilization, is incalculable.
Mark the cities it has located-Queb0c,
Montreal, Ogdensburg, Oswego, Toronto,
Buff,Io, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Mil
waukee, Chicago, Marquette, Duluth.
But am not now TO expstiste upon this
traversed the Great Lakes from Duluth to
Ogdensburg, intend simply to print a
few useful facts and pleasant incidents
pertaining to the route and the journey
STEAMERS.
The Vermont Central line, about year
ago, bought six-tenths of the stock of the
Northern Transportation Company, which
owns and runs over twenty prOpellers.
This season three of the propellers are
running between Duluth and Cleveland
two per week from each port. These
boats connect at Sarnia, Detroit and
Cleveland, with other boats of the line
running from Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland,
etc, to Ogdensburg, so that one can ticket
through by this line land by this only to
Okdensburg. The fare from Duluth to
Ogdensburg, meals and bertbs being in
cInded, is $50; from DGluth to Boston
$33 In case of failure to connect, accord
ing to appointment, the company subssts
its patrons at a hotel until the arrival Of
to4t. There is line Of larger boats
which makes departure from Duluth fol
Clevellnd, etc. 1--WE times q week. Fare
to Cleveland. $27. BY the Vermont Cen
trail line, $50.
purchased a through ticket and EN-
barked on the "ChamplaiD," which proved
to be smart, clean, well managed and com
Portable. She started six hours after the
"Kewecnaw," one of the larger boats, but
was first at Sarnia.
LAKE SUPERIOR
At the head of L Ike Superior, 155 miles
N.N.E ofSt Paul, is that precocious two
years-old metropolis called Duluth. Abid
ing there ale some 1900 people, every
one willing to be made rich. The city
has one ccmmodious business street, long
broad and level; while most Of the resi-
deuoca, churches, etc, line the streets
which checker the vast hill-slope. The
future of Duluth may be uncertain, q
think it is } Int its past can be regarded
only ith wonder.
The preciaion with which the editor o
the Duluth Daily Herald uses the English
language ia more wonderful, however
than the growth of the place where b.
fourishos. In bis issue of July 10th, h
hlisbed the following Steamers ant
pp ,ers are laying piled up at the dock
scoool as hops. Give US more docl
as 'hlcS that paragraph intended fo
room. was >.of Washington, Phila
II JI.,x
the lll"hlnA'loA York, or was it "rott
delphia and New we're two steamer
ssrkastkle" ? There ana or two sail
in the harbor, ard either MORO
inp vessels, and there wsre no ou+ ;n+
From this harbor we launch 81
the largest body of fresh water O. =
olobe,-its length being $50 miles,
breadth being 14O, and its average depth
about 1000 feet, though other authorities
cay 500. The Chippewas call it h'tohl'
gummi (big lake, 1t is 627 feet above
the sea. It's dark blue waters ere clear
ard cold. Among its living tenants are
white fish, lake-trout, sickiwit and mus
calonge. The voyagers meets very lev
vessels. Settlements along the coasts ar
eonallv rare. The shore, sometimes siop
ing quietly, and sometimes almost noun
tainously, upward, is an unbroken torres
of evergreen. The primitive solitud
} and wildness of the region afford on
some fresh sensations.
Having steamed from Duluth at
, o'clock D. M, we arrived at Bayfield,, s
: miles distant, in the night. This plac
a has been looked upon-prospeotiVeiy-f
the rival of Duluth. 1t has niue
halter harbor, admirably sheltered wit
numerous islands; and its scenery an
trontipe have eminent reputation. VI
course through the lake is along the souf
8 ohore q few miles from land, and new
: ont of sight of it. We pass two or thr'
e little bamlets, Ontonagon, Eagle Rive
# Eagle Harbor, and at about 8 o'c "a Gay
a journey from Duluth we draw up TO Co
# per Harbor, dilapidated village SD
J rounded by still-born copper mines'-wi'
l. one, however, about three mules on, In
r. gives excellent promise. We are to tai
It on twenty-five cords of cedar wood lat
IS per cord), and as the operation will Z