Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-12

dertake tho trip, who have never yet done
50. Should such a trip furnish to any others
a 1.-THE Of the pleasure and profit gained by
our little party, should consider myself
fortunate in being instrumental IN incrtas-
ing by so much the sum total OF human
happiness.
We left Burlington by mail train on the
Burlington and Lamoille road at 4:4o p m,
and arriving at Cambridge Junction at $50,
lust as the intense heat WAS abatDg, walk
ed over a pleasant highway Al miles to
the extreme limit Of Pleasant Valley.
where we were very cordially welcomed
by hospitatle family, with plenty oil
room. milk, butter, and other things to
suit Our lost, specimen OF the sturdy
yeomanry of the neighborhood, In the
prime of life, standing IT, , inches IN his
stockings, with blooming wife and healthy
children, gave US all neediul directions
over night At the good old-time hour oil
nine, We took our beds, sleeping soundy
until in the morning. when, refreshed and
inyigorated, we set of for our walk. about
five miles to the summit by way OF what is
here called "The Slide. The day star
stood Just over the crest Of tho mountain.
as the grand old profile here as no.
where else limntd against the sky.
Tho peaks seen at Burlington, Under
hill, and almost any where within eye shot
as forming the forehead and nose 1.-THE chin
is invisible here), are so grouped from this
point of view that slono they present per-
feet and most symmetrical human face,
which my companion declared was some
what like medallion profile OF Washington,
bat which to me was absolutely startling as
almost exactly that OF dear and generated
relative, alas. now no more. This pecul-
lar confsuration remains until you enter
the forest at the utmost limit of the clear
ing and lose sight Of the summit in thickets
Of dense foliage. skirting hero the entire
base and side OF the mountain, where with
a Jump We cleared the brook and brush
| fence the last yestige of private property,
and were fairly launched on the unknown
before US.
| We had intended to take q little earlier
start and make the entire distance between
Mr.. Dickerson's, where we slept, and the
top Of the mountain in season to sec the
sun rising over the top Of MT. Washington
but as you may easily understand our en-
thusiasm for the heroic gradually oozed
out, if not at our finger ends, at our neither
extremities, as we crowded through the
thickets 1--WE were our own guides). the
ascent rising almost at an angle OF As ?;
and we were also constantly gaining new
accessiOns Of admiration, as new wonders
and new beauties at first gradually but later
rapidly dswned upon Us. until We saw the
gilded points up high over our heads re-
aecting the first rays OF the morning sun IN
incompatible splendor. About midway
up the mountain side We began to discover
specimens OF those luxurious moses so
often mentioned, but never described. pc
culiar to this venerable and lovely Mother
of the Mountains" cushioning PROSTATE
trunks Of trees and such rocks as were
visible above the soil. Sitting on ore of
these old trees, as soft and yielding as the
very best hair or spring seat sofa, leaning
restfully against hoary spruce, my COM
panion a boy of Is, caught sight Of some
luecious and glistcning nuggets of spruce
gum. large as robins eggs-nOt above our
heads, but hanging in easy reach. and he
was not slow to appropriate the delicious
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