Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-09-19
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Vermont Scenery.

vermont scenery.
Travellers to foreign lands are lauda-
tory in praise of the natural scenery of
the lands they visit, ''of Italys sunny
Cline" but the resident of New Eng
land need not 90 beyond the limits of
his native town to view scenery which
is unrivaled in picturesque beauty, and
especially in Vermont does this hold
true Take, for instance, the valley of
Otter Greek, with its ever varying
charms of hill and dell, and running
brooks and ''sermoned Stones" with its
splendid, water falls, sdeep cascades, and
towering battlements of primeyal rock.
Take the cars at Rutland, if you
please, of bright afternoon and direct
your course northward, you are hardly
seated before you reach Sutherland
Falls, a beautiful and romantic spot, five
miles north of Rutland, leave the train
for a few hours and ramble over the
rock bound coast, and study natures
grandest works in the rushing, roaring
torrents, as the waters of Otter Creek
pour off cascade of rocks, huge and
forbidding, leaping into the deep chasm
below. Look out upon the scene.
Broad, alluvial meadows stretch out,
seemingly just at your feet, and the
white farm cottages peeping from the
evergreens beyond, combine much that
is grand and beautiful in nature and art.
Here, too, is located the extensive marble
works of the Sutherland Falls Marble
Co., producing marble of a merited
world wide reputation.
After viewing this, perhaps the most
picturesque scene in Rutland county, re-
sumo your seat in the train of the next
morning, and still pass nOrthward, fly
ing through deep cuts and past beautiful
farm residences in PittsfOrd, with out
stretched meadows and cOrnfelds, indi-
cative.of thrift and prosperity. Take
flying view Of that city, sat upon a hill
that it cannot be hid, with the Green
Mountains beyond keeping watch and
ward over the little villa of PittsfOrd,
Mills and HitchCOckvillc resting just at
their base. But these scenes are lost to
view On, on you rush through the
quiet village of Brandon, with its rich
marble quarries and frozen springs,
eclipsed nevertheless by the shifting
! scenes of natures panoramic views. As
we press on down the valley to the
famed villa of Middlebury. Here is the
| twin college of Vermont, sending her
educated men to adorn the society of
every land, but nothing unusual in ma
ture attracts the traveller until you reach
Belden's Falls, which, perhaps, presents
| one of the most beautiful scenes upon
the almost enchanted river, sleeping, as
| it were, between huge sentincls Of rocky
coasts, approaching the deeply sublime
in nature, pointing with unerring finger
to natures God. But as we still press
nOrthward the tireless eye Chat window
of the souD takes in the passing scenes.
daguerreotyping upon the mind the
scenery Of this beautiful valley.
We are passing the little city Of Yer
gennes, located upon an emincnCc at the
West, and here we take leave Of Otter
| Creek, as it is lost III the waters of Lake
Champlain but as we still press north
ward, the scenery is unChanging in beau
ty and grandeur We leave the cars at
Shelburn and seek the highest cmincnce
to the east. overlooking one of grandest
/ and most sublime scenes that it was ever
my lot to witness, taEiug in at one view
miles OF Lake Champlain and the noun
tains beyond At our feet stretch out
large tracts Of cultivated farms-beyOnd
sleeps the little villa of Shelburn Falls,
through which runs the Laplatte river,
leaping over a beautiful cascade Of shelf
rocks Beyond, still, ten miles in the
| distance, stretches out the broad waters
of Lake Champlaln, and in full view is
Juniper Island, and the -Four Brothers.
Cast your eye southwark and you see
| the inCOnCeiVablc scenery OF Pleasant
Valley Again nOrthward, and you see
! in the dim distance, ClintOnyille, where
! DanemOra keeps watch and ward" over
men not altogether unlike the world.
In full view is that ''other college, the
University of Vermont, and many vii
lagos like Burlington, sleeping within
the misty distance, surrounded by scenes
both grand and beautiful in nature.
Mrs. Stowe says the grandest place af-
! ter all is home. TO rest rather than the
thrOpged summer resorts. So we say
| home in old Vermont is the place where
we can behold the grandest and most
sublime scenes in nature. Bayard Tay-
lOr, after he had Toasted his vision on
the Danube, the Rhine and the Rhone,
returned to his own beloved and ever
delighting Hudson, finding new beauties
UnriValled by anything in the old world.
It has my privilege to view the Hudson.
with its shifting scenes and towering
palisades, but | return to the valley OF
Otter Creek and Lake Champlain as pos
sessing natural attractions challenging
the world for picturesque beauty and
sublime grandeur. J. E. NJ.
Hinesburgh VT, Sept 10.