The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02

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is it to find mountains of any considera-
BILE height on the shores of the sea,
and the lakes of the interior are
usually but ponds under another name.
Yet these small sheets of water
are oflel so attractive that their shores
furnish sites for numerous camping
grounds, as well as for rustic cottages
and more pretentious hotels. These
are springing up as by magic all over
New England. and the tide of summer
travel is steadily setting in this direc-
ton. But by far the best, as well as
the largest body of water in the East, is
Lake Champlain with the accompany
magog is thirty miles long, but Lake
Champlain stretches its length one
hu1dred miles from north to south,
while Lake George members through
meadows green, along outrageous
hills, and underneath the beetling
crags Of lofty mountains for thirty-live
mi es, while more than two hundred
verdant islands lie emb)wered in its
bosom like gems in a coronal. Suppose
one has but three weeks for a icaton,
how can he best spend it? Let him
buy ticket for Burlington and make
his headquarters at the Van Ness
House. This hotel is wel-appointed,
well-kept and well-filled. Its accom-
violations for five hundred guests
proving insufficient, Mr.. Woodbury.
is constructing an elegant brick lock
on the other side of the street in which
a hundred additional guests can be
lodged. With satisfactory cuisine and
all modern appointments, with an ele-
vator reaching to the observatory, and
with reasonable charges, ones stay
here can hardly fail of being pleasant
Aside from its unparalleled location,
the attractions of Burlington are many.
1t has more and better public institu-
tons in proportion to its population
than any other city in the country, and
its advantages of this kind are such as
to cause it to be selected as the site OF
the Sauveur Summer School of Ian
guages. Overlake," the summer
residence of Colonel LpGrand B. Can
non, with its beautiful grounds of
sixty acres, is practically open to the
pubic, and one can easily secure al
open sesame to the magnificent estate
of three thousand five hunlre acres
belonging to DR.. w. S. Webb. Attrac-
tive excursions may be made to Wi
nooski Park, Rock Point, "L0ver's
Lane" Mallett's Bay, and other points.
But as a diamond is most beautiful
only when it is set, so Burlington is
viewed to best advantage. The world
wide traveller, Rev. DR.. Buckley, de-
clared the view of Burlington harbor
equal to that of the Bay of Naples.
Whether one takes this view from the
observatory of the Van Ness, the tower
of the University, or the grounds of
Colonel Cannon, the panorama of city
and country, lake and river, island and
mountain, is one never To be forgotten.
But it was the view obtained when
approaching Burlington by steamer
from the south that pleased the writer
most. One needs to view Vermont
Queen City" from many standpoints
in order to see its beauties. After
Burlington has been done one should
90 up through the lakes. To do this
he will board the steamers of the
Champlain Transportation Company
, the oldest steamboat firm in existence
The second steamboat ever const 'ucted
was launched upon the blue waters OF
: Lake Champlain, and from that time tC
this every resource which ingenuity
could devise, art embel ish aud wealth
procure, has been employed to perfect
the means of transportation, until the
paatial steamers of to-day embOdy
ones ideal of luxurious travelling
And what a trip it is up through these
lakes! Guide-book in hand, one seems
to be calling the roll of departed
heroes as the historic points are reached
{ and passed. Port Henry, Fort ST
Frederic, Crown Point and Ticonde
roga-what emotions they awaken a,
the thrilling facts of history come
. trooping through memory The hoteh
most anything, from the sword OF tn
gallant Ethan Allen to the thigh.bona'
of the g ,gAntic king Hen Trick. Blu
the ever-changing panorama cause
many to forget all about history in tht
intense enjoyment of the present
} Who can describe il? 1t leeds tn,
' brush of a landscape painter and The
y genius of heaven-inspired poet to do i
justice. Those who have once sailed
through the limpid waters, skrtet
mong the beautiful islam Is, passed
= under the shelving rocks, and enjoyed
, the ever-ch lnging AMI ever-length IN
ing vista of Lake George, have had al
= experience OF lifetime. why 90 no
I more people take these trips, stoppin!
t here and there at the hotels that line it
shores? Why do not more @ in Sep
TENDER and October, when the rate
are cheaper and the autumn tints NOR
0 gloiou,? Why do not people find tn
n beauties around them ere they journo,
f to distant climes?
w. r. DAVENPORT.
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