The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-30
From Boston Journal.l
Unfrequented Mountains.

Monaunock, in vermont, stands among
the first of the Green mountains in grand
eur and loneliness. 1t is situated in Essex
county, at the extreme eastern part of the
state, near the Upper Connecticut river,
away from railroads, in q wild and unculti-
waited locality, presenting a most solitary
and deserted appearance. The woodlands
AK is seldom heard among its primeval for
ests, which seem to stand reserved for a
future generation. In point of fact more
acres of solid wildness can be overlooked
from the summit of Monadnock than from
any other mountain in the state. While
this country abounds in forests, yet there
is charm about it which gives the visitor
a deep impression of what our forefathers
had to endure when the whole of New
England was bowling wilderness such as
is presented from this lofty summit.
Monsdnock is best reached from North
Stratford in New Hampshire. or from
Brunswick in Vermont, The mountain be-
ing only four or five miles from the beau
tiful village of Colebrook. 1t is a dark,
lonely road to its summit, which is reached
by passing through dense forests of large
prlmeval growth, giving the visitor the
feeling that he has passed beyond the lin
its of civilization or even of an inhabited
country and entered upon new life of
solitude and desolation. It-4
Game of all the northern varieties inhabit
these wildernesses, from the laughing
squirrel and timid rabbit to the bounding
der and savage black bear. No better fish
| ing grounds can be visited anywhere Es-
sex county abounds in lakes, ponds and
| rivers, profusely ladened with trout of the
| largest and choicest kind.
| My guide told me that he once lost his
way in the forest, and after travelling al!
day he came at evening to small lake or
pond, and at point where brook flowed
into 1t he made barricade of sticks, then
| got into brook above and drove the trout
to the barricade; which, being unable to
pass, he threw them on shore with his
hands, enough to supply his hunger and
| more than five bushels remaining over.
| AS we reached the summit of Monadnock
and surveyed the country around, we we're
led to think that New England would not
suffer for the want of timber for the pres
ent, if this region could be utilized. More
than 100000 acres of solid wilderness
met our gaze. To the west, stretching
away as far as the eye could reach, was
one vast silent forest, with here and there
the rocky summit of some mountain, rear
ing his head above the trees, till the eye
rests upon Mts. Pisgah and Hor, 40 miles
from us, with distant glimpse of the wes-
tern Green Mountains, 80 miles away.
Here is rare view on an autumn day
first, a thick evergreen forest of spruce and
| hamlnay nnypripu fhnnaon1a nf With
here and there silvery lake to break the
monotony, then rolling hills of maple,
birch and beech, with their leaves chang
| ing from green to the various beautiful au-
| tumnal tints, on a magnificent scale, since
the vast range of these forests cover UNI
| measured acres
| Toth north is continuation of this
forest scene through Northern Vermont
1 and New Hampshire into Canada and
Name, with hill towering above hill till the
far-fading forests of the north, changing
from red to yellow, green fading into blue
gives the mind the impression of the ocean
with its dark rolling pillows.
! Here are the headwaters of the Connec.
ticut, with the Magalloway mountains be.
yond. We now look beyond the confines
of New Hampshire upon the boundless
pine forests in Maine. This is a most sub.
lime view, tor it is here we see nature az
she is clothed in heI giant kings of The
forests, and never would the observer i'm.
agine that thousands of millions of feet OF
lumber had already been taken from
among their exhaustless acres. On and on
do we extend our visual powers, till low in
the northeastern horizon is seen the fading
outlines of Mt. Katahdin.
We follow the Connecticut river along
to the south till the White mountain area
is reached. From Monadnock good I'M
derstanding of the White mountain area il
obtained. We see these mountains not as
range but as independent freaks or as one
vast mass of mountains rising one above
another, piling mass upon mass, rock upon
that most sublime of all, Mount Washing
ton. Around Monadnock are some inte r
esting freaks of nature among which ia
cave not vet fully explored, also colt
springs and ice wells, and not the least in
teresting are the rural inhabitants who NV.
chiefly by their industry in agricultural
pursuits and numbering. 1t was In one OF
these towns Of only ten inhabitapss that q
representative was sent to the Vermont
legislature, whose seat was contested be.
cause he could neither read nor write and
did not know who the governor of the
state was at the time. He 10 said to have
made most original speech on the occa.
sion, picturing in most vivid colors how
disappointed his constituents would be II
he was not allowed to remain and transact
the necessary business OF his important
town. Rarely does the pleasure seeker
visit this rural locality. but II ia nm exne.