The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-05-18
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there r mauY points 81 amtar..f wb.eh
everyone uu. Jackson edge NH maal
ia eomursia E t.cu - tf tae Green
Mountain STATS hs H3 Glasgow ua.s
gHh clyde building geamcn'-as io .
ih tght aud shadow 81 the countries o.
pamc Nature were an arlistftu0a'd seea
thH l.atal dHci tbe laud fheathcrma
Mr EHd ol msFfa sa-ar mtlh Elrigu.
hna.eaHe ae3 Visions ufMauDE, nd 90.
make th.m enduring fmmrJ 'hem both
with thc eternal lillr "Io.k ribbed and
ancient ,he snu have uol the lCjs.
ur 90 present 10 compare the points Of
resemblance m u1y a. / would wi,h
bul iu -Letelg was viii attempt 60 g5u-
yts SOME ormg impro ioAs Oue point Of
similarity IS llat iu both counties 70
takes good sized mountain fer Bin,
and au Immense hil for mountain.
Last Summer ai Glencoe, AN old High
lander pointing up % "a slight elevation u
some three thousand feet said, that Is a
6ae hull lla} and thought Of Vermont
where often similar elevations are thus
s'gnatcd, genuine mountains, that
would be dsgnI6cd with higlrsoundmg
names iftlty bad ouiy been born nearer
the Mississippi. Aud when O few weeks
ago / saw ihe mo. ming cloud rolling
away from thc grand old Equinox | was
again carried 10 Imagination todd Scot
land and stood amid Che shadow, ofthe
Trosachs, What sir Walter said of Scot
land might with almost equal appropriate
ness be said Of Vermont;
land OF brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land Of hemouuain and the flood.
What Vermont lacks IN heath is at least
made up in ycrdurc. Tic rivers and
streams Of Scotland above designated by
Scott "the food" liom tie rupid flow Of
lAtir Yates through steep aud rocky
channels find also parallel. The Battcn-
Kill is quito as large aud romantic as
those twin streams Of song, Bonnie Doom
and the Ayr, and the Clyde, and the
Tweed, aud the Forth, if it were not for
tie tide, would not be more nayigable
than the Connecticut and hardly larger
than the Passumpsic and the Winooski.
/ II 1--WE give Scotland the advantage Of tide
we ought at least to give Vermont the adj
vantage Of frcshcts Lake Memphrema-
cog has also frequently been pronounced
the "Loch Lomond" Of our country, and
Lake Dunmorc with its historic cave is
almost as interesting to a sincere Ameri-
can as the cave Of Rob Roy. And there
/ is Lake Champlain with its background
of Adiroudacks which presume Yer
mont has at least a right TO look at in
spite Of a cirtHOuS New York Legislature.
| Vermont also like Scotland has often
| in various matters asserted her indepen-
dence, and like Scotland has always
triumphed. The Revolution, and
\ her border contests raised up
heroes to do battle for the right and to
conquer. Blunt old Ethan Allen might
almost be called the William Wallace OF
his country, and Bennington Battle was
as brayely fought and nobly won as Ban
nockburn. II we only thought 50, the
Catamount Tavern at Bennington would
have as much romantic interest as the
grey turrets Of Stirling the home of the
Scottish Kings. For, as the Bard of Avon
said "Ihcre is nothing good or bad but
that our thinking makes it So. Noun.
tains seem to nurture a spirit OF manhood
And one week Of their freshness is worth
a month on the burning sand of the sea
shore. The English people as well a,
our own are beginning to appreciate
this, and every year are pouring the tide
Of summer travel to the Northern hill,
and mountains. Every year in our coun.
try the cry is growing louder clio! fol
Vermont Manchester, Poultney, Castle
ton, Middlctown, Sheldon, Stowe anC
Newport. Our country is hardly ole
enough yet for poetry; but the muse
driven from land to land will surely
come: and when our new world become
grey and dusty and iyygrown, lhel
among these mountains will arise rea
Ossian to slug Of other days his "Tae o
the Times Of Old' aud in bis lines thu
deeds of our ancestors will seem like thr
proves Of Fiugal and the hosts Of Nor
ven, willie the paper on which he write
will be sacred as if made from the BATH
stained flags which hang in Vermont
Capitol. Even now the first notes O
true poetry arc being touched in tn
/ Granite state by the Poet Of "Snov
Bound" aud barbara I'rictche'
whose liues are filing tie world with
love Of freedom and Of home.
/ W. u.
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