The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-08
the camp-meeting grove, are among the things
which have an interest for the curious.

which have an interest for the curious.
THE ROUTE
lies by way OF the Montpelier and Wells River
road to Wells River thence after two hours
ride over the Boston, Concord and Montreal
railway The Wers is reached At Wells River
distant view Of the mountain scenery OF the
route Is obtained The railwav folioyUs the
east bank of the Connecticut to Haverhill, and
the famous Ok Bow meadows on the Vermont
side, and the villages Of Newbury and Brad
ford with the pleasant scenery OF the valley,
arrest attention. From Haverhi.l the railway,
leaving the Connecticut, follows the valley Of
Oliverian brook up r sharply ascending grade
past Sugar-loaf and Back-hill, craggy peaks of
granite, to Warren summit. The points OF
greatest interest are seen from the east side Of
the train. Near the summit the omnipresent
Owlshead, a sheer and rocky cliff, stares at the
passers and beyond it towers the head OF
Moosilauke From the Summit the train leaves
Moosilauke in direct line between over-arch-
ing trees Seen through this vista from the
rear car the rapidly receding mountain, as II
driven up by some titantic power, appears to
" swell from the vale till its summit touches
the sky The effect is startling and the phe-
nomenon excites the liveliest interest. From
the Summit the route lies through the pictur-
esque valley of Bakers river. To the right
and left are pleasant intervals, high wooded
hills and changing views. Between Rattle
snake and Stinson mountains, up smiling
pass wckedly called "the holler," at little
Rumney, one of the peasantest Of the many
pleasant sights along the route. Incredulous
as a stranger might be it is true that between
this station and Plymouth there is six miles of
track along the bottom Of the delightful val
ley, as straight as a line. At Plymouth the
valley of the Pemgewasset is traversed and
| the far-famed hotel of the same name where
| thousands of famshed travellers forget their
hunger, is passed. The waters of Long Pond, a
vapid Yankeeism for poetic Winona, appear at
| the left. Soon the train skirts the shores of
Lake Waukawan and passing Meredith village,
a broad arm of Winnipiseogee is followed to
| The Weirs. Along these sheets of water tanta-
| lizng glimpses of their beauties are caught
through the branches of the trees and now
and then broad view of their coy charms is
vouchsafed At the station the veil is drawn
| aside and
| LAKE wINNIPIsEoGEE
| presents her face for a long, admiring stare
| The lake is thirty-eight miles in length be-
tween its extreme points and about ten miles
at its greatest width. Nearly four hundred
green islands stud its surface. These vary in
size from small round tufts of verdure to
islands embracing many hundred acres, on
which are cultivated farms. For the most
part, however, forest trees clothe their surface
and they are the summer abodes of sportsmen
and the sites of pleasure camps. Like Indian
names in general Winnipeseogee is expressive.
A /" beautiful sheet of water in high place.
by some interpreters, by others, 1.-THE smile of
the Great Spirit is its apt Specification. The
orthography of the name is as varied as appar-
emily was the capacity Of colonial ears to inter-
pret Indian sounds by English characters.
''Wenepesoce," Winnapuseakit," are some
of the "spells perpetrated by the untutored
white man. Mr. w. p. Hill has observed forty
different ways OF spelling the name and has
enumerated nearly score of them. But the
visitor twill little note nor long remember " the
difficulties of Indian orthography. The formid
able array of vowels and consonants which make
up the written name will cease from troubling
in the light of The smile Of the Great Spirit"
The lake, however Winnipiseogee is spelled, is
its own best interpreter. sail in clear sum-
mer day over its bright waters, among its
emerald islands, environed by circling ranges
of wooded hills, with the peaks and domes of
the lofty mountains in the blue northern dis
tance is the cherished rnbrance OF life
time. The Lady of the Lake, staunch
steamer of eleven hundred tons capacity, is
familiar with every inlet of the nook shotten
shores, knows everv island and reef, can call
them BY name and is on speaking terms with
every plebeian hill and the aristocratic noun
tain neighbors. She has piled these waters for
, thirty-five years and myriads of pleasure
seekers have sung her praises. She has never
betrayed her trust. In all her career her pas
sengers have never had occasion to use her life
preservers nor has life been lost from her.
This gracious Lady" makes regular trips from
the Weirs to marlborough and Center Harbor,
the extremes of the lake, going and coming
four daily trips j. S. Wadleigh, her watchful
captain, Is patient anu OD!lSluB III pOlutluR OuI
: points of interest and in answering the oft-re-
: curing queries of tourists He has sailed the
lake for fifteen years and reads its surface and
surroundings like a book He will tell the
traveller of its islands, of Gun-stock and Bel
khan mountains, twin SUBMITS rising from the
southern shore to a height of two thousand five
hundred feet OF Rattlesnake island looming
up from mid lake. and in the distance beyond
this serpent abode amid sea OF tossing hills, OF
3 matter-of-fact Coppe Crown sending its conical
3 peak into the southeasterly skies. Nearer at
| hand on the north he will point out the Ossipee
: range, Chocorua's sharp peak, the blue sum
mits of Paugus, and Passaconaway and White
. faces staring outlines. Over the Red Hill of
, Northumberland he will show the sharp points
= of Tri-pyramid and in the interval between
overlapping ranges, Sandwich Dome II the
Q presidential range and Mount Washington, the
' monarch of this mountain region are not sulk-
Y ing in their cloudy pavilions, an exceedingly
formal introduction may be had. These are a
few features only in the varied landscape
: around Winnipeseogee. Poetry or descriptive
. rhetoric can convey to the stranger no adequate
| idea of the charms of this region, the combined
Z loveliness and magnificence of its scenery. A
a | few conspicuous points may be named, but the
= lake and its islands are the center of natural At
+. fractions which cannot be catalogued. AL
q | around are bavs and lakes, inlets and streams.
a " Hills peep DER hills and alps on alps arise.
p The individual observer must devote his pow
: ers of observation to detect the finer combina-
q tions made by water land, sunshine, mist,
A cloud and "monntains whose sunbright sum-
q | mits minge with the sky" He must furnish
n the capacity to gather up the subtitle details of
! scenes like these. to group, arrange and enjoy.
\ Nature has furnished the material with more
a than regal munifcence