The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-28

are Wf1hom b. N0rehrup ana family, MIS-. van
W. Morrell and family, S. Loeb and family, James
Whitley and family !. A: Harper and family, Cen
sewell, q. Cans and family, Myron Perry and wlie,
Percy, All OF New York; p Q: Read and ami!y
Brooklyn; George e. Taylor and wife, OF Philadel:
FAMILY .s ScGa9.s sss ana ali Of HSany Coz
onel Wallace and Colonel Audenried, United States
Army, and families and among theatrical people cope
gssstsS SessSs visitors i; 70 ,; ,ss
tige Of novelty and ..a the modern improve
ments," as landlord would say. The Lake House
appeals TO large list Of OLD customers and does
rank, and we are all bent upon getting all the en-
joyment possible IN 9 short space Of time. e, OF
remarkable for DrillIancy OF execution, but helping
to beguile the time pleasantly and probably after
dinner |. helps digestion you know and Is in
all the more perfectly for hearing my iayorite NOR
sells from "Martha:h Wagner, am glad to say,
dyspeptc-is a sort Of musical pessimist, and am
sure his effect upon the liver must be bad
II taken Immediately after q full meal
You must not suppose that we have any difficulty
In getting through with the day: Some Of us keep
still and let the day 60 through us as though we
through our orifces In the COOL Of the evening
we slt 10 cosey punches And scandalize the dinner
is sin against KIND feeling and COED manners.
never indulged in by .well-bred people l know
i'll admit It, but the magnetism OF the place is too
strong In vain the more intellectual Of us seek to
introduce higher strain Of thought and feeling.
The effort Is successful only for little, and
back to the same Old theme. AS an offset pro-
pose to take you trip up Prospect Mountain,
which is one ofthe most interesting excursions you
PROSPECT MOUNTAIN.
You pay 50 whether you 60 In lump with other
For that you are taken In an uncovered wagon a
taunt Of about three hours. You 60 to the top Of
Prospect Mountain. which, by the BY, does not any
eminences at the Water Gap do. 1t is high hill,
perhaps 1000 feet above the level Of Lake George,
though the authorities claim for 1t 1000. The road
that winds to within few rods OF the top Is mar
row, admitting only OF one carriage at time, ex.
cepting At distant intervals The ar, the balsam,
oak and the chestnut abound, and you perceive
that grateful and healthy odor which every visitor
lively. Occasionally you come across clearing,
filed with lonely stumps, and still less OCCASION
ally across o workman engaged IN laying down
corduroy road. AS the forest thickens upon you
you hear the dim whistle OF the robin, and wonder
why SO few BIRDS voices meet your ear until you
son and the raid they made on all the feathered
tribe After an hours ride you reach the highest
getting se wAce out the saTass oC
up the steep remainder. Very steep
it is and very stony; but after eight or ten MN
on which the Prospect Mountain Inn sands.
Here the view suddenly bursts upon yon-a view
too lovely to describe In paragraph yet appreci.
ated by so few people that more than paragraph
ought to be given to 1t here Either Lake George
visitors do not know that such view exists or
else they are criminally Indifferent to it. The
spectacle Is one which Is not to be equalled in the
State. 1teXtends over a diameter OF 100 miles and
includes all the exquisite varieties OF many.
breasted nature when with lavish hand she unbares
at one touch her ample hills and fertile valleys and
includes them in one glowing panorama. To enjoy
the summit OF the inn, and drink the spectacle at
every point. But let me warn you not to use the
might as we'll expect to see through a kaleido-
scope. An ice cream pyramid would do you just as
much service. Trust to your unassisted eyesight.
Naked nature ought to be contemplated with the
naked eye. We should return the compliment which
she pays us by her confidence AS you stand upon
peaks salute you. There they rise out Of each
other, as gently as thoughts from the abysln
of consciousness. There is cone.like Nippletop
brilliant IN the FAR distance. There Is Mount
Marcy, one OF the OutpOsts OF the AdrOndacks.
Black Mountain irowns in full view, as much as the
areent Mountains veil their verdant peaks in shin
Ing haze. At our feet lies a handful OF hamets and
villages gracefully quiet. as though in sleep. No
aud the whisper of the leal The language OF the
forest goes on, and perhaps bird and leat under
stand one another; The vast panorama trembles
in shower OF smiles You think of Bayard Tay
lor's simtude when he says of Nature, in refer
ence to some such scene as this:-'She
bares her ample breasts that we may
suck the mix OF power" You inhaIe
inspiration given by beauty. Comparatively lew
people come to enjoy the scene, as the visitors
book in the reception room OF the hotel will show.
A lew hundreds; perhaps in the course of the sea-
son. But the whole region does not contain spot
better worth visit be the day clear or cloudy.
There is a sense perhaps despite what 1 scep-
tically sand about the voice OF Nature little
while ago., in which such a scene as this can be
said to speak to us. TOO many OF us regard such
scenes as We would regard q clock which keeps
good time, but which unfortunately has no hands.
Shall not our own thoughts be the hands upon the
timepiece of nature, bringing us into intelligent
to her silent mechanism Lake
George Is beautiful enough to suggest the thought,
and the view from Mount Prospect grand enough
to lend 1t emphasis.