Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-07-10
the BRUNSWICK SPRINGS HOUSE.

once demands its return. But at the
Springs you breakfast i'll true country
style, supplied with everything which
two great lines of railroads running to
and from every city in the land can
bring you. and everything the country
affords fresh from the farm over across
the little lake. Then with morning pa
per and cigar, and Il situation not in
trusive you are in the midst of country
scenes enlivencd by intelligences bright
and new, and you are there without be
ing part of them unless YOU choose to
be so. You may have music billiards, or
any other exercise or pastime (barring
baccarat) belonging to country life. If
you are an equestrian go to the stables
fyou love to fish go to the numerous
lakes by which you are surrounded; go
and drive with wife and children in
the incest shades in the world; float on
the water; lie in the hammock; read
sing; or do what you like But first of
all come up on this dizzy height and look
down that steep slope to the river, and
back to that long line of Vermont hills
over beyond the "old ball alley" From
the unexplored depths of these hills issue
the famous Brunswick Springs and you
will wonder long time how all this
comes about
1t is as wonderful as a story of fairy
land. You look up over long line of
hills at the base of which you stand and
by your feet down a steep declivity which
runs so nearly perpendicular down to
the river that you may not walk it with
out falling. About half way down this
descent, and approached by long fight
of stairs, are some half n dozen springs
in circular array, bubblng up side by
side, seemingly not far enough apart to
admit of separation, being about the
length of board across the semi-circlc
1t is not detracting one iota from the
delicate beauty and the deity constructed
falls and the symmetrical half bowl of the
famous Minnehaha to say that these
curious springs and their surroundings
were conceived by nature when in an
equally fine and ingenious mood. and
their surroundings, like the laughing
waters of the west, retain all their primi-
tive features save that it has been dis
turbcd as little as possible by the erect
ing of a commodous house and equerrv
with necessary outbuildings and the
cultivation Of enough land to supply
freshly all that country place can fur
nish. The underground workings Of this
phenomenon has so awakened the solici.
tudc OF the proprletors of this property
that they have almost walked on tiptoe
over it fearing that the seemingly frail
or thin partition between the little lake
and the springs and between the springs
themselves might be disturbed and al
run away together into the river. And
so the general contour of the place has
remained the same. Although you may
look for miles up and down the valley
and watch the steam of approaching OF
receding engines on two great nationa
highways at any hour of the day. at the
same time your immediate surroundings
wear the same charms that they wore
when the wild red men camped there ant
filled the country with Indian legends o
the spirit of the medicine man which
haunted the woods. His light canoe
may have never glided over thos'
waters, and he may never have conducted
the sick to those healing waters, at thu
same time it is reasonably certain that
the medicinal qualities of these spring:
attracted even the savagcs who traverset
the forests from Lake Memphremagoe
to the Connecticut River.
These springs became noted without
single word of advertisement or {
single dollar of interest being used in thai
behalf When the country was surveyed
even the civil engineers discovered what
is at once obviously that these springs
were strongly impregnated with sulphur
iron, bromide, arsenic and other nedi
cinal qualities. They sent people to then
and at once the surrounding farm houses
were full, and one or two were enlarged
to accommodate patients. And now
although it is charming, quiet littl
retreat, the chief object in going there il
the benefit derived from using the water
from the springs. The strength Of on
spring is so great that it is discovcrabl
in the air which it pcrmcates for a grea
distance around it, and although all, o
= nearly all, who visit these springs as
, sumo the airs of happy tourists and d'
,, really enjoy their stay there yet, if The
truth was known there would be discov
cred in almost every group of friend
some one infrm in health and equal.
firm in the faith that those waters re
stored many to health and happiness.
To add to the attractions OF the plac
it is conducted by young, lively, hope
{ full and ambitious couple who arc wcddc
/ to each other and to the task of enter
tanning their guests, who have alread
included this season some OF the mos
: distinguished men in the country. An
= as Essex County furnishes as inviting r.
c treats as any county i'll New England
and better fishing and hunting grounds
the Brunswick retreat has come to be n
I Essex County institution and is rankin
c among the very first Of the sylvan r.
I treats of world wide fame. g.. D.