Litchfield enquirer., 1874-08-13
GENEVA, N. l., Aug. Sth, 1871

GENEVA, N. Y.. Aug. Sth, 1874.
 DEAR ENoUIRER.-I am not dead, nor married, nor been elected to office; that I have not written in so long time. IE: still live. and having taken trip, partly on business and the other part for ple:..,- ure, from East Gainesville, N r., to this beautiful, splendid-tell the printer to throw in a handful of adjectives just here place. We purpose, if the new comet does not get here soon enough to stop us, to give few notes to the readers of the Enquirer. We took the 5:27 morning ex- press on Thursday, the 9th inst, and ran to Attica, twenty-four miles, where short time since we were invited, and gave our lecture on ''The Education We Need, !" before the Collegiate Institute. This place--the borough, not the Institute-has some three thousand inhabitants and is growing rapidly. The Institute building cost 5000, and has departments for learning all the way from A B c up to Comic sections, Trigonometry, Greek, naGIn, &c. Change cars for Batavia, eleven miles distant At the latter place change again for Rochester, thirty-four miles. Easy to keep the run of distances, for you arc on the N. Y. Central at Attica, and the fare Is two centa mile. From Rochester to Geneva, fifty-two miles. pass ing Canadagua on the way. As the ad- iectives are all used up, every one who would like to know what kind of a city the latter is, must go and see 1t for them selves. Farmers were harvesting oats and barley along the road. The crops are good. In Geneva we find Watson G. Potter, son of Garry G. Potter, a Litch- field boy, who owns a fine place here and is the proprietor of the only Marble works. He has stock on hand of $10,- 900 worth of marble, Quincy and Scotch Granite, importing the latter directly from Aberdeen, Scotland. to which place he took trip, last year, running down to London, and across Ireland to London derry from which place he set sail for home. In the line of Scotch granite he is not to be beaten
 This place lies on the northwest corner of Seneca lake, and is beautiful fer situa- tion, containing seven thousand inhabit- ants. Hobart College is located here; al- so the Geneva Medical College. The Nurseries claim to cover 5000 acres.
 Yesterday, Friday, in company with Potter we started for Watkins Glen. We take the steamboat, Onondaga, at a. m. for the head of the lake, 40 miles distant. But what a sheet of water this is. Per ceival has written poem on it, or beside | it, tourists and novelists have exhausted the dictionary, and there is nothing left us to do but just to sit on deck and quiet ly drink in the beauty of sky, landscape. and water. Did you ever think how much we arc indebted to the sky for scenery. Without this blue arcLed dome bending over us what would this earth be but dungeon.
 We stop at several places going up the lake. This water is very cold i'll summer, and never freezes oyer in winter. No ice to obstruct navigation. Its width varies l from three to five miles. To get an idea 1 of this lake, imagine sheet of water as wide as Ilitchfield lake Is long, and ex- tending from Litchfeld to Long Island Sound. There are places that have never I been sounded. '.s@'..' A little after noon We reach Watkins, a place of four thousand inhabitants, with l seven first-class hotel and as many smaller houses for the accommodation of the crowds of visitors who resort to this world famous Glen We take dinner with c. A.
 Frost, one of the most energetic bussiness men of the place, and of Connecticut de scent, and start for the Glen. The coun- try rises precipitously from the edge of the lake some three or four hundred feet in height. A large stream starting sew
 al miles to the west comes to the head of l the lake, and, in it's course from the high
 land beyond, has worn a deep chasm through the level strata of shale and
 slate rock with which this part of York State abounds. Entering at the mouth of the stream, you look ;nto rocky chasm 8 few feet in width at the bottom, while the rock as it rises on either hand bows in l ward and converges toward the top. almost | meeting in many places at heights vary ing from seventy-fye to two hundred feet, extending distance of two miles or more. Along the sides of the chasm level walks have been constructed, with securely fastened railings; the ascent to each level