The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1886-10-14
Great Things to be Seen in America.

chord when il asks the question t:
"Is IL in order to see walled towns
that they Qhe intending traveler)
would have gone to Europe9 Where
will they come across one more to
their mind than 10 the Gibraltar OF
America, where Quebec sits on her
rock overlooking her mighty river
with view that has few rivals in
the world, with her ramparts and
citadel. her medieval streets and
dwellings,, her cathedrals and con-
vents, and strange schools and forN
eign torguos and iummortal histor-
les Is it only ancient cities they
desireY Then there is st, Augustine
among its palmettoes beside the sen,
almost at the extremity of the con-
tinent aud almost as old as the dis
covory OF the continent Is IL SEMI
tropical beauty OF landscape and
weather they would have 7 Not all
the soft.vspored cities by the Medi
terrauean will offer them more than
Savannah and the Sea Islands.
"Is il foreign life they want ?
Where will anything more alien to
all our northern and eastern experts
ence be seen or heard than in the
Rue Royale and the Rue Bourbon,
at the French market or at tho Span.
ish Fort of New Orlesns, with its
mocking.birds aud magnolias, where,
as la'e as the middle Of June, gar
dens full of jasmine and oleanders,
cape myrtles and palms. with moon
light that might be the northern sun
filtered through domes Of crystals,
make one doubt if it be plain, mat
ter'of fact, progressive America ?
Or where will more quaintness aud
delight he seen than in the Texas
town of San Antonia, where the
rosos lie on the red roofs Of the long
and low dwellings,, wbero the jalou-
sizes are latticod with the vine of the
night-blooming cereus. where the
banana 'rees .hlafF5 .6bop.' -. .hs
strong, sweet southeast gales, and
tho lanes are lined eilh figs and
apricots, and one walks nuder ave,
nues of stately pecsns, wh,re forests,
draped in melancholy mos, swayipg
heavily. make the landscape all un-
real; where grapevines il .erlace the
thickets with stems tho size of forest
trees themselves whcro the priests
go about with nocks OF little child
rem olinging to their skirts, and
where the ruins OF the oil missions
rival in sculpturod wondor many
ruins OF old Spain Or is it abso-
lutte Spain itself that our friends
would travel over7 Let them cross
The Rio Grande by rail, aud in Chi
nuahuo and Sonora aud tue heart OF
Mexico they have reached much that
makes old Spain 4; they have found
he old Spain Of 400 years ago, aud
nave gone there dryshod.
"Do our travellers want deserts
md thirt for their SIMMER expert
'Dcei They will find deserts in Ar
zona rivaling all Africa, with colors
lud mirages that even the Sshel
loes not give. Do they pant for
mountain climbing7 II the White
Mountains and the Alleghanies do
lot offer difficulties enough, are
here not Mount st. Elias, with its
1000 feet OF altitude, Shasta and
the terribly obs,ructed
'eights of Sogrs aud Of Snow Mass
'eak, alhthe wild SUBMITS OF the
iierraa. the fearful beauty OF tue
Yellowstone park, and tho wild gran
eur, too lovely to be terrible, of the |
losemite7 And do the Danube. the
chine, the Nile allure? Then shall !
ot the waters Of the Hudson, with |
Is picturesque reaches, OF the Mis-
issippi, with it's breadth Of volume.
I the Columbia, with it's gorges and
ataracts, wash out all memory Of
ssser and less beautiful streams.
"W Where, for mere beauty, for the
elight OF the eye, eau all Europe
how us anything like q blosssming
rairie through which we may ride
Il day and never come to tho end of
,e blossoming! And what hoary
ntiqaity to charm the thought back
the source of races has Europe TO
Ter that shall outdo ihean Glen tness
the ruins of onr prehistoric peo-
10 in the heart OF the continents I
fact, America is 80 full OF historic
terest and picturesque loveliness