Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-12

threaded with tiny ponds, banked every
where with hardy gorse and mazes Of
heather, wild flowers and grass,
splaiched with knots OF noble trees,
intcrsected by countless ioot.ways. wild
and ragged as when the Romans were
here, and all seemingly held together by
intCrIacing ruadways and rugged sides
OF rock and sand and pines and urfe.
Around Il i- q shining thread Of lovely
hamlCis. stately halls and winsomc cot
tages, al gnhlgd ivicd, old. Within IL
on gardcned hills and hlo'somng boil.
lows. or az rs siumhCrng edges. where
old structures like old folk seem TO- love
90 d0zc In sun aud shade, are scores Of
those quaint and ancient inns, still the
most charming heritage OF the "mgrric
England of long ago; and the whole
region IS cAhilurating from its free, fine
uncouthuvss and the CClsclgss hrcczes
sweeping from odoruus northern wales.
ever inviting TO their lie.giving dallIaucc
the city millions below, and bcatiu.
back from these fields Of pleasure the
pestilcnual breath OF gumy London
town. is Il any wonder that the humid.
reds Of thousands of London folk who
come here give themselves to unrgs.
trained enjoyment, or that this transit
ton from city woes aud walls produces
such Joyous d1linum to young and old
that you will heat on Hampstead Heath
more ringing, almost Ccsialic, laughter
than IN any other place iu ail the
worli2
Seated beneath the flagstaff which
marks the highest elevation of the
Heath one eau readily understand how
the region roundabout has been the best
I beloved OF all the near haunts of Lon,
don ndiuralists, and why. from the days
I OF Gaincsblrough aud Constable % has
/ furnished the landscape artists canvas
with many OF rs noblcst themes and
scenes. lis the one place Ia England
where Us greatest city aud a vast ,N.
pansc OF typical English landscape can
I be contemplated almost No the same
I glance. Wide open to the wind and sun
[ stretches vale after vale TO the southeast,
7 the north and the west Your cifcling
l view extends into seven English hires.
Far In the north can be traced the spifg
Of Hainsl0p Siccplr. IN Northampton
shire. The Knocholt Becches IN Kent
the hills and downs OF Surrey the Lain
| don hills OF Essex the turrcts OF fOya
| Windsor IN Bgrss aud church on ih,
| far borders OF OXloTdshirc, are 90 iul
[ view.
Down below old Hampstead ,cnloggcc
/ by the calculations of hundreds OF thou
sands OF chmucys, in the distance 10
| myriad roofs Ike a plain OF broken ant
secthing lava, lies the metropolis %
/ the world, the dome Of gray old 81
/ Pau's like "a peak OF useless steel 10
measurelcss. incIneraiing mass. VIVA
mind can grasp the magnitude OF humai
history, Of human accomplishment ant
OF human despair within this singl,
circle Of visionl
One 3, said TO always find good com
pauy at Hampstead Heath. Yes, cyei
/ " alone. You eau still sit here by thl
. flagstaff with no one TO converse witt
and coniurc up grcwsome OF goodil
company, lt was at Hampstead Heat
as al t0unslow Heath that the lacksons
the Duvals and the Iurpins Of the sis
tepath. seventeenth aud eighteenth cen
turtles cut purses, and throats u need b.
10 get them, and made merry as lords O
lbs inns, some Of which are here to min
lister alike to saint and sinner now
over against the gardens Of Wildwood
at the side Of Heath hill road, s,i
stands the ancient Gibbot Elm. Upo
its huge old arms, many centuries ole
were hung In chains when caught, thes
merry knights Of the road.
! The same locality, as you stroll to