New-York tribune., 1871-08-02

OF ioyial excurslons up sts sides and picnics at
tho top. Just below Mount Tom there is bend In the
river where 1t widens 1t crooks and gives for few
seconds the Traveller speeds onward charming vista
OF wood water, hill and meadow in the distance When
this picture Ia lost the tourist Is nearing little manu-
featuring town with several largo mills and hero the
stream gathers itself for gliding descent OF several
feet into shallow bed below, where the stones lie as
thick as brown leaves in grove In Autumn Further
on, the banks ribbed with layers OF rock whose
shelves extend with the water. group OF bareIegged
and brownaced boys girls have waded out to ono OF
thee lodges and stand there fishing Two three boats
tied 10 the bank arc brmful OF water A white kid Is
tethered on stray spot Of deep green near the DRINK
Anon the water covered with the broad fanke leaves
of waterles yellow and white When tho tram stops
for a few minutes little, sunburnt ELF OF girl, with
brown eyes, like those Of Wild deer, cleaning from be-
twxt ropes of tawny hair thruss in at the window
bunch of the god-hearted, waxy, white blossoms. We
know they will fade In half an hour into a dull pulpy
mass but their indescribable fragrance is too aung
and so, the lilies for us, and an ugly rag OF q
backed fractional note for the sharpflced little
gatheror
It easy enough to tell when you get out OF New En-
gland into state. For thing, there ia tho
Erie Canal which you overtake and which bears
the railway track company in disconnected kind OF
fashion for good part OF the routo through New-York
The foliage still retains its fresh dark green but the
sharplydehned mountains have decreased into soping
is not SO crystal clear, nor the Sky such light blue
Natural objects not sharpcut and salient in their
outlines In many places the earth IS r1dged INTO
numberless litle nos, (which look If covered with
green velvet and which are suggestive OF giant molo
along the way begin have less aggressive noses and
the to partake less of universal tough ankness OF
look We only the wrong side OF Albany, during the
brief halt which we make there TO put of some people
whose pyramids of trunks proclaim the fact that ey
are going Saratoga; and the much wrten-ahOut-
Hudson has dwindled into commonplace streak OF
water.
expressly for q of creatures without the incum
brance OF stomachs such race rs it is supposed VIII
mind shall have tIiumphed utterly over matter. But
ought one TO gIumbe If you travel by lightning ex-
press, you hardly expect 10 have lesurey comfort
combined with white-hot speed 1t was midnight when
we stopped on the Canadian SIDE After rev h9urs p
Burlington Bay. It's large, stdgnantlOOkng sheet OF
water out of sight of this passed between cultivated
fields mostly wheat and the soft light green OF barley
Many OF the wheat fields had jdst been in pro
cess of reapng. There were many fields lying taIi0W
the rich ve.dure OF NewYork had given place to du
BROWNIES of grass and herb Here the seemed
much further advanced and every living thing had
dusty, scorched look. They say Canada has SUI
some Of the fields had lust been pOwed and carefully
narrowed and sullenlOOking reddish soil disclosed:
every foot Of which disputed by plentiful crop OF
rocks Nature was evidently in more grudgng mood.
to-day than she had been IN the country which we had
passed through but the day before The vegetation was
altogether more sparse, and tho undcrgrOwth more
dwarfish. But there seemed TO be more economy aud
panstaking in the culture OF land People seemed 10
know its value to Judge from the with which every
little bit Of it was incosed and tended queter country
passed through. At o'clock nOb0dy seemed
to be abroad At the stations all still death,
and halfadozen people not all along the route
from Hamilton TO Toronto, the stationastes lncuGed
This mOnotonOus stiffness strange cOntrasted with
all the noise and hurry and excitement that we had
left behind us in the States, The scenery was
equally mOnotonous. The stretch OF cultivated
and level land for sthis is mostly Nat country,
the same faTm-hOuses at intervals and
in every other space turn where you would the same
dark green wall OF evergreens meeting the pale blue,
misty sky In the remote distance seeming TO shut out
the noise and confusion OF active life, ana to shut in
mOnoOnOus Sunday quiet, 40 II here work were to be
done forever.
We were four hours getting from Hamilton 10 Toronto.
We might have done it in two bat tedious sOpples
AT length the sparkle and broken glitter of blue water
ahead Of us. At first il seemed vast enough to
be taken for the 1t dotted with sails some
of which In the far distance just coming above tine
horizon. II Lake Ontario alongside OF which We
gided until into the city, with high green ter
race bordered by ne houses the other hand and JUS
before reached the station tao trcolored gean oi
the union jack, floating out brdvey above, made 10Y
the first realize that the soil appertaned - H. NJ Of
wifely and matrOnly renOwn.