The Cecil Whig., 1877-11-10

munchlngS, Nc. We, too. do it; all do it
here: and in addition, in the fullness of
our jaw. You see, morn, noon and night,
the sweet, tOOthsome and aromatic kraut
| before u.s. and man needs only ample tank
| age capacity to be supremely happy, though
he never smelled the incense from baked
Elk River canvass back.
Seated, as | am now, in one of the best
hotels i'll Pennsylvania, in one of the pret-
test towns of the continent, 12, 600 inhabi-
| tants, situated on the bank of the beautiful
Susquehanna West Branch, at the juno
tion of two valleys, the pictures que beauty
OF which must be seen to be enjoyed, as
none can faithfully describe it. Is it
strange that feel good and joyous and de-
sirous to hold up feebly to your eye a faint
picture of this great panoramic view of
Gods handiwork? Even Dame Nature
seems to have been in one of her happiest
moods, joyous even to playfulness when
her crispy hand touched these valleys
Spread before us, sluggshly winding its
way, this branch of your own Susquehanna
tile valleys of this State; and though when
| younger | was constrained to believe in
garden of Eden. my notions have become
so enlarged of late that methiuks in conse-
| quence of the yttloness Of residents Of that
date our great grandparents, Adam and
Eve, were accorded more space for exercise
than is accorded to men ard gardeners of
present; hence, | think that not only did
| the Garden of Eden embrace Cecil county,
but perhaps reached out over these noun
tains, hills, valleys and streams; that our
grandpa might, for recreation, chase the
deer, and the bear, gathering tea berries
| and viewing scenery, such as is seldom seen
elsew where,-a Paradise existing mot lost(
Thus, to day, in the simmer of golden
sunshine, flooding the beautiful green car
| pet of Natures growing, do we see this
land locked valley and river, overhupg by
high mountains, clothed in shrubbery of
every character and hue, presenting to the
eye, at one and the same time, the beauties
of Nature, together with the fruits of
mans ingenuity.
This entire valley, through mans agency,
is fruitful garden of hnsbandry, produc-
ing largely. Their average corn crop for
'76 was about sixty bushels per acre;
wheat, thirty bushels; potatoes, fifty bus;
pumpkins, four hundred bushels. SO you
see their staple productions are wheat,
corn, potatoes, sauer kraut and pumpkin
pies. They do make them pies nice large
ones with works in them; they do it, they
all do it.
| must not forget to say they always
have a standing crop ia heavy one, too of
stumps. They perhaps cut and send to
market, yearly, 2GO,OOO,0OO feet of lumber
and timber, in shape of shingles shocks,
square and round logs, studding, plank,
&C.; but I'm DEPRESSING. Would that you
could see this valley, its thrifty people,
with their Independent, self-satisfed men,
their burly forms, their rotund wives and
lasses, with their ample figures and feet
the latter warning creeping things to get
fiat, and last though not least, their varie-
gated hllsides in their Autumn regalia,
containing, in matchless, enhancing beau
ty, every hue of the rainbow, from the
richest claret to the most subdued lemon.
You would, with me exclaim, tits good to
be here; and even a wanderer, tramp,
can exclaim, in the fullness of ecstacy,
thank God for eye sight! This grand PAN
Drama of Nature is of itself worth a trip
from your section to see. Rising bench
above bench, clothed in Natures foliage,
amid the evergreen, massive pine, is inter-
spersed the russet brown and cherry red of
the st-touched maple, towering above all
is seen the stately hemlock, the enemy of
all verdant lumbermen, though ever green
itself; peeping out here and there are huge
sentinels of ages, doubtless we'll advanced
in years on Adams first appearance lin
this garden. They are among the tons,
huge monsters: a hundred stone or more;
each, rocks Of ages uncleft. Further at
tempt at description were useless with me
out of paper, ink and time. So come up
and see these people, their huge mountains.
huge four footed animals, which doth bound
anu dDounu; see tntlT nuSe crops, nuSe
hats, hands, feet, mouths and capacous
rotundity.
Prepare yourself for much Deutcher
sprachee, sauer kraut, pumpkin pies and
swei lager. Let out your straps on vest
and pants, and prepare yourself to pant;
they do it; they all do it, up here.
Deer plenty, bear plenty, ducks not so
plenty, but much larger than yours. And
going homeward you will exclaim with the
poet:
"Gone, gone, and the hopes
In which so long trusted,
The beauty of Cecil has taken slope,
And I'm done up and busted"
Yours, PRETzEL.
P. S.-I must not forget to tell you that
this hotel contains eighty rooms, and one
of the best in the country, $500 per day,
kept by an adimal, cross between the
Oil Greek desperate and the Pennsylvania
Dutchman, very prominent tello,o IN front,
rather on the gorilla pattern, but homely as
as is his phz he's a big hearted fellow and
makes you think you're home. Don't fail
to see him if you come up. He'a natural
curiosity, one of Natures monstrosities.
p.
For The Cecil Wing
BROADBRIM'S NEW YORK LETTER.