Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-09-12
From the Le,ci8t0n J0Rrnat.
LUNENBURGH AND ITS SUR
ROUNDINGS.

The entire White Mountain region
has been so faithfully and graphically
described by competent writers, and
the thousands of tourists who yearly
visit it, are SO familiar with the objects
of natural intrest, that any attempt at
description of even IL single locality, is
somewhat like carrying Goals to New
CASTLE" But the number of visitors
seems to be constantly increasing.
Not only are the great mountain hotels
enlarging their accommodations, but in
scores of villages, smaller houses are
being built, that places may be found
for the great number of people of lin
tied means who desire to secure pleas
ant boarding places for the two, three
or four weeks at command for vaca-
tons.
L his letter is written from u village
which for slightly location is unsur-
passed even by famous Bethlehem
With an altitude little if at all inferior
to that, and with an outlook Une-
qualled except by that at Jefferson,
the village of Lunenburg, Vermont, is
the one place where there is not such
an institution as q summer hotel.
Rising steadily by a good carriage road
of two and a half miles from the Con
necticut river, the tourist, looking
backward discovers a picture of rare
beauty. The beautiful intervale lies
almost beneath his feet, and in the
northerly distance, the bare Percy
Peaks stand boldly in view. Then
Pilot Range and Jefferson Hill a little
southeasterly the Presidential range,
every summit of which, and most OF
the contour, are plainly visible
southerly, Kimball Hill, Mt. Agassiz,
Whitefield and Dalton Hills, with
Lafayette and others of the Franconia
range raising above and beyond them.
The whole view is comprehensive, and
in my mind more beautiful than any
with which ! am acquainted after
several years summer sojourning
among the mountains. ] AIN only sur
ally covered with hotels, and thronged
with visitors.
But, as / have said, there is not a
single pretentious hotel here. Moth
ing, indeed, in the way of hosiery,
except what we find in all country
villages "a small, unpretending house,
catering to homeless residents, and to
the occasional commercial travellers"
who find their way, bent on business,
to the stores of the village. AT this
house, or at some Of the pleasant farm
houses in the neighborhood, one must
apply for entertainment. This Sc
cured the weary business or profess
sional man, the not less weary house
wife, and the children whose home for
ten months of the year is amid the din
and hustle, the dust and stitled atmos-
phere of the city, may find rest and
recreation, the freshest and sweetest of
mountain air, the coolest and clearest
of water, the sort of milk the little fell
low had been drinking when he told
his mamma that he wished their milk
man lin the city, would keep COW,
the fresh vegetables and various ct
cetera, which one needs and finds at
such Il place.
marvel that there are no mountain
COLONIES" like those at the sea-shore.
What a place this would be for such q
colony! What ample fields, and mag
nificent groves what glorious pros
poets what pure, health-giving air !;
what acreage of wild fruits what
ponds TO tempt the followers of Wal
ton, and what pickerel waiting for
their hooks what leaping mountain
brooks, with their hundreds of shady,
rocky holes, wherein lie the "speckled
beauties" and what poor fisherman
must he be who cannot at almost any
time bring in his string Of trout CA
week ago your correspondent Spent
about a half day on one of these