The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-24
Mount Equinox.

Editor Rutland Globe Il venture to
say that not one of fifty of your large cir
Gle of readers have assembled to the top of
this peak, so easy of access-or even know
how good road there is to the Summit
house. Certainly the writer on his annual
visit to the dear old mountains of his native
state, had been told that the road was i'm
passable, and that there were no accommo-
dations and hence has delayed visiting
Equinox, and has been debarred from wit
Messing one of the grandest OF mother ma
lures panOramas among 80 many IN this
Switzerland of America. Tourists from
Rutland can take the $50 a. m. train, get
a good breakfast at Orvis or any of the
hotels at Manchester or Factory Point and
with good team and careful drivers reach
the top of the mountain in three hours at
fartherest. The road for the first hour winds
among the homes and lands of thrifty far
mers, and as we leave civilization and
wend our way upward we reach shady
dells, where we give the horses breathing
spell, and get occasional glimpses Of the
rich and fertile valley at the base where
the Battenkill glides silently onward to its
outlet to the sea.
AS we climb up the mountain side, some
times steep and hard for our sure-footed
team, we are not only surprised but graft
fled at the thoroughness of the road. Oui
little ones got out to enjoy the ever vary.
ing landscape and to pick the beautiful
| flowers by the road side, and in the nook
of stump they descry little brown rab
bit, and he like everything in nature, unac.
customed to evil influences, did not flee
away but looked steadily out at us as much
as to say "Good morning, and peace abide
with you ALL" When we arrived at the
mountain top, we found "Uncle Pete
Barnum and family in possession of the
Summit house, and we sooL had a substan
tial dinner cooked and on the table, t
which our sharpened appetites did ample
justice. After which we could enjoy thu
grand view spread before us, and this il
what we can see To the northeast, thu
far off White mountains, nearer Killingtor
and Shrewsbury peaks.
To the north Lake Champlain like {
streak of silver to the west Saratoga lake
valley of the Mohawk, and Hudson river
at the northwest the Adirondacks I; 10 the
east the Green Mountains also Grand
Monadnock and Ascutney Peak Greylocl
and Stratton mountains to the southeast
and the Catskill mountains to the south
west. AT our feet to the east, was The
valley of the Battenkill, and the villages Of
Manchester, Factory Point, Sunderland
and Arlington seemed 30 near that W.
could almost hear the lowing of the kline
or the sharp click of the moving machine
How grand and beautiful the landscape be
fore us, the mountain clothed to it's very
top with it's carpet of green, so differen
from Mount Mansfield, and other noun
tains that we had visited, and even at tn,
highest point, where the United State
survey, or cold Prob" had selected sig
nal station, flowers were in blossom, ant
the lover of nature can here find beautiful
ferns and moses in great abundance
Now, reader, you can leave homes any
where between Rutland and Bennington il
the morning, have three to five hours Oh
the mountaing top, and sec something O.
the beauty and grandeur of the state yol
love so we'll, and be home in time for milk
ing or your evening devotions. Try it.
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