Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-09-27


ed is great. The mother of Mayor
Courtenay, aged 81, died yesterday.
WILLOUGHBY AS A MASSACHU-
SETS LADY SAW 1T.
A lady from Massachusetts, who
spent some weeks at a pleasant cot
tage on the shore of Willoughby,
wrote a graphic letter to her home
paper from which the following is
condensed:
Choking down the lake from cot
tage Point, upon the left are scatter
ed farm houses a little beyond the
sleepy village with its one store, post
office, and a neat white schOol-house,
serving for its church as we'll. Here
the Episcopal service is conducted
every Sunday, and during the season
the boats carry full loads from the
hotels that help fill the little building.
Farther on, upon a higher elevation,
stands Gilman's Hotel, the first built
here, where those who enjoy old
fashioned hospitality with correspond
ing prices, fill it to overlooking. Still
farther on stand Mounts Willoughby
and Hor, evidently once united, but
in ages past rent asunder, giving
room for the waters of the lake, above
which the highest peak rises $500 it.
or 3, 700 feet above the level of the
sea. Beyond our sight is the Lake
House, where mine host. Mr.. Rich
ardson, makes life so pleasant that
those who come as guests, leave as
friends.
How do we amuse ourselves? Some
of the party have horses and we may
drive over these mountain roads, OF
we may row in one of Capt. Wilder's
best boats upon the lake, perhaps
across to the s'Pirates' cave" form.
ed by projecting rocks, large enough
for a boat to seek shelter in storm
One day when the wind was strong
our boys spread two umbrellas, as
sails, and foated the length of the
lake, being kindly towed back by the
returning steamboat. Fishing, berry
ing, excursions upon the mountain
croquet, etc., fill the days. Upol
a moonlight evening friends gathe
from nelghboring cottages and tent
to sit with US land an impromptq con
cert is given, enjoyable if not arts
tic.
But for real enjoyment NOTHING
surpasses ride upon the lake eithe
IN Capt. Ruggles' fleet little craft G
the more commodious boat of Capt
Averill, whose long experience an
genial manners particularly adaE
, him to his position. AS we pas
D Mount Willoughby we observe "Ga
e den of Eden," so called, from the v:
ried and rare plants found there, co
, lections of which were this year mac
for the Natural History rooms {
e Cambridge. At the gate where
s meets the precipice sits Gen. Butler
e we doubted at first, averring that
S was not a proper guardian of tt
O place. but the familiar half-clost
It eve established his identity; behir
O him stands huge black bottle as
+ the serpent had assumed the most
re Turing guise to seek an entrance
g modern Eden. The curious may ira
s. many odd figures upon the perpendi
ular rocks. There Is the owl, hog,
duck at which hunter is taking al
lie as it rises; the lady in white, t
l. face turned toward the north, b
t. garments blown by the wind, the ola
e Indian stealthily watching her; tt
k Quaker calm and serene, the lette
s. gu. S." and farther on huge "A
II as if Dame Nature Jealous Tor Unt
le Sam, had set her seal thereon.
> distinct are. they that a gentlem
Of from Boston, sitting near us on
}, boat one morning remarked, ST
le bottom of that s is blurred" Meet
Id onr amused glance he QUESTION:
10 .sWere not those letters carved
e, Roaring Brook comes leaping dow
st a thing Of beauty now, but when
a. SHOWS are melting, q fearful torre
40 Returning past Mt. Hor, at cert'
I'd point of view, the rocks form a p
a file similar to the sold Man of
Of Mountain"
We are treated to the novel sp
tacle of immense logs rushing do
an almost perpendicular slide of S
ty rods In length into the water, sci
on ing the spray high into the air. I'll
a again we may leave the boat, 9
"a scaling the rugged rocks explor
rk cave eighteen feet in depth, named
a its discoverer, Prof. Churchill of A
., over. n. B. f
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