Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-09-28

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+ We need not speak of other mountains
7 surrounding this bewitching Middle
Park. How clean, cool and beautiful
i those four falls af granite, capped on ali
sides with snow, including that space OF
| fifty miles by seventy, with dark for.
! ests, open meadows, beautiful streams
and mirror lakes. Were this park the
! other side of the ocean, Europeans
would be beside themselves with &C.
| stasy. ,.t l1. s,stI. s-s@.sl
| Passing the southern boundary of
| Middle Park, the eye will trace the
| outlines of South Park, which is thought
bYsome, in its delightful climate and
magnificent scenery, to exceed in attrac-
tiYeness all others. 1t is 60 by 80 miles
in area and, like Middle Park, is bound
ed on all sides by gigantic mountains,
eternal frost and SHOW. Pixies, Peak.
IA. 91s, feet high and so miles distant. is
visible. Also the continental divide, the
Sawatch extending west of it still furth-
er south, $50 miles distant, the beautiful
Spanish peaks, upwards of 1000 feet
height, are clear to the eye. Ex-Gov
Evans assured us that this southern out
look eommanded peaks.at a distance of
.lpards of $50 miles: :. IS. -
4: Such TIE view from .GCsray's Peak in
that direction. Now look west for a
moment. Just beyond the peak already
described is the Inviting snow range
Still beyond can be seen The Uintah and
,Wasatch Mountains of Utah, and at
few points the far distant Sierra Nevada
range. Here again in view of upwards
of $50 miles of mountain ranges west
ward willreward the effort expended in
reaching Gray's Peak; northward the
extent of mountain ranges is about the
same. The divide between North and
Middle Parks are the first mountains
SEEN. Longs Peak, standing at an angle
of the east and south walls of North
Park, is prominent. In this last men
TONED park fish and game are far more
abundant than in either Middle or South
Parks. 1t is the place for adventure; it
has never vet been fully explored; there
is no difficulty in finding within its
boundaries plenty.of wolves and ante
lopes. ~. - ~. : g.
Away ia the distance stretches the
Rocky Mountain range, which forms
the western boundary of this park, and
the Medicine Bow range, which forms
an extension of its easterly boundary.
Not far from $50 miles, therefore, the
eye ranges nerthwgrd j.; and eastward,
just beyond Denver, the vast plains rise
up until they reach the level of the eye
Now, when we take into our estimate
the number of lofty peaks in this ifnme.
diate neighborhood, also the variety of
scenery-lakes green as those of Geneva,
blue as that at Lucerne, and Others
which are perpetually frozen parks
which the world elsewhere can scarcely
approaehf forests never. yet explored
by the white man the magnificent ex,
tent and vast sweep of view in every
overwhelmingly, lovely, terrible, and
full of indescribable najesty-we feel
like asking to be forgiven for visiting
Europe and going into raptures over its
scenery before standing upon your sum
nit, O dome of the grandest continent
God has made. If any of our readers
can tell as where we can End country
whose scenery -surpasses this of Color
ado-this Switzerland magnifed-we
will ask his forgiveness, and go there
the coming year.
Having Toasted eyes and soul to the
full, though nearly frozen, we slipped
the bride ever the mules head, put the
arm through it, and made as rapid de-
scent as was safe down-down-amOng
valleys and earthly things. Boston
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