The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-08-13
FROM NEW ENGLAND.


WEST AMEsBuRY, MASS, Aug 5th, 1874.
Mr.. McGREGoR Il have not forgotten my prom
ise to write you during my stay in New England.
We have been now nearly three weeks in this quiet
pleasant village, nestled amongthe hills ana rocks
and forests of Pine, about ono milo from the river
Merrimack. The people of this village are nearly
all engaged in some way with carriage manuiac-
turing. There are some twenty carriage manuiac-
tories in the place giving employmentto to large
number of men and women. Some six thousand
carriages and buggies were made here last year.
and they are sent all over the country Every
person here seems to have something to do there
are no loafers on the street corners. There Is not
place in the village where man can OBTAIN
drink of intoxicating liquors. There Is not sa-
loon In the village and the Druggists cannot give
or sell intoxicating liquors to any person or Tor
any purpose without an order from physiclan
The result Is there Is no intoxicatlon. have not
seen person intoxicated since l came here.
A community can be prosperous and thrifty and
happy without saloons.
We enjoy the pure air, cool weatherand refresh
ing sea breeze much. We are but eight miles in q
direct line from the ocean, and we have cool
breeze from It nearly every afternoon.
Yesterday we went to Salisbury Beach, some
thirteen miles distant Left ithomein buggies early in
the afternoon, spent four or five hours on the
Beach, and returned at night This Is regarded
as one of the finest Beaches on our coast for bath
ing for views of the ocean, and for quiet enjoy
ment OF sea air. 1t Is not a place OF fashionaDle
resort. The gaiety and display of dress and ele-
CANT "turn outs seen at Long Branch and New
port are not seen here. Salisbury Beach has been
made famous by Whittier. His beautiful poem
"Tent on the Bach" was written in Tent on this
Beach and the entire locality Is graphically des-
cribed by that gifted Poet. By the way the birth
place Of Whittier Is only two miles from West
Amesbury, and his present home is at Amesbnry
Mills only five miles distant
Salisbury Beach lies between the mouth of the
two rivers Merimac aud Hampton. For the ac-
commodation Of visitors there are two hotels and
some sixty small farm buildings Thereisnothing
attractive about the hotels or the houses but the
Beach itself is charming, and the views Of thf
ocean from every pointare grand "BOars Beach,
the aisle of Shoals" and "Cape Ann may be seen
distinctly in a clear day. What a study old ocean
is2 IL Is the most sublime and beautiful of all ma
tural objects Its vast expanse, its enormou.
depths It's cedsless motion, and ever varying as
pect now calm and now convulsed, are well cal
culated to excite the imagination, and to produce
the most pleasant emotions, such as no mountains
lakes or rivers can do but fora short time. The
interest we feel in the sea Is a continual and in
creasing one We see it constantly under some
new aspect, and It must always remains source
ofwonder and delight enchanting us the Longer
we gaze upon 1t.
No one has ever described this truest image o.
sublimlty in languageaso adequate and sublime
as Lord Byron OF all natural objects none -
charmed him as the sea. That was his delight, il
that he gloried, and in the description of It w
have the noblest effort of his matchless genius
Gazing upon the blue expanse, how often thos'
beautiful lines rise to our lips and seek expires
sion,
''Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean roll"
In sustained description that holds the reader
attention unaagging to the end, SCOTS Poems ex
celled those Of Byron or perhaps Of any other En-
glish poet In brilliant flashes of genius, Byron
descriptions, whether of the passions orof natur
al scenery, excelled those of all his eotempora
ries.
Scott, who never lost his Scottish accent obsery
ed to some one in Italy, where he was making hi
last sad and hopeless effort to recover his health
that Byron bet" tbeaD him" Asa whole It'll
doubtful whether Byron did bet him. For ou
regarding Scott both as poet and novelist, hay,
always considered him as exeelling in the realu
of imagination and inyention,an English authors
excepting only one, william Shakespeare Thi
is by way Of episode. AANi
never weary looking out upon the sea, or ex
amining the varied objects of interest," and beaut
upon It's burden. Here we find many objects 0
interest both animate and inanimAte. The Sei
and The borders Of the sea are crowded with life
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