The Republican journal., 1895-11-07
DR.. Miles Neryine Restores Health.

DR.. Miles Neryine Restores Health.
many people bound for the summit pass
the first night sleeping in herder's hut
among tbs lambs and calves; but since the
weather was SO favorable and our start
sufficiently early, we preferred to press on
TO the top and spend the second night
here on the return. Not far above this
place the donkeys must be abandoned and
the remainder of the ascent performed on
foot with the aid OF alpensticks. All who
undertake this journey should have the
good sense to bring along stout boots that
reach nearly to the knee. But about nine
out of ten do not. Most Of the women
wear ordinary walking shoes, with more
of heel, and sometimes even the abomi-
nable tooth pick pointed toes. The CON
/ sequence is that very few of them ever
get to the top. After climbing while in
| torture they are forced to sit down dis
consulate and wait for the others to 90 on
to victory, OF spend days afterwards pick
ing cinders ont Of their lacerated feet. A
lady sllod in spiked soied, COW hide bro
gans may not be able to frisk about grace
fully like an opera boutfe shepherdess,
but al least She can accomplish what she
| came for and sing a song of triumph on
| the mountain top. There are 1900 feet
| Of hard scrambling, pver loose rocks that
Slip away beneath the feet at every step,
not particularly dangerous, but toilsome
to the last degree. 1t is like climbing llp
over q dome, and as you ascend the apex,
the Wind, Gnhindered in It's sweep across
tile wide Atlantic. increases to 4 gale that
threatens TO wiirl YOU Oft into space. The
| supreme effort comes with sealing the
rocky wall that rims the Outside crater
Ion here is a crater within d crater. the
outei one perhaps 300 yards across, with
perpendicular sides averaging 70 feet in
height, except at one side whore a break
has been made. Looking down into it is
ike gazing upon a ruined fortress from
the battlements thereof the masses Of
scorae and blackened lava that lie
strewn all around answering for the
fragments 81 shattered towers Descend
ing easily enough through the breach
in the wall, you stand upon an almost
level floor, in the midst of which, on
a platform OF lava which is again sup
i.,-l !
twisted, like the writing limbs of ire
mendous dragons suddenly stiffened into
stone, rises the cone, 800 feet high. The
heat in the amphitheatre is intense, and
being overpowered with thirst you search
at once for Nv ulcan's Well which pre-
vious visitors have described 1t is a
bowl shaped hollow, hidden deep within
cleft in the wall, filled with ice cold
water, notwithstanding the atmosphere of
hades, being enclosed like the bulb of air
in spirit-level. Scrambling to the top Of
a spire-like cone, among constantly loos-
ening stones that roll downward, threat
ening the heads of those who follow, after
many bruises and back sl dings you final
ly reach the top, and find slightly de-
pressed second crater not more than %
feet in diameter, out of which thin, hot
vapor issues. This is the very chimney
tongues of flame visible so far out at sea-
The stones all around are so hot that you
cannot long bear your hand upon them,
and perched upon the edge Of the lofty
pinnacle you feel as if seated at the tops
OF smoke stack, as if you had only to
lean outward and drop down the sheer
descent ), 600 feet into the ocean immedi-
ately below. Giddiness seizes you, and
certain awesome solemnity, as if you were
the last living creature standing alone
upon the very apex OF creation, an indie |
scribable sensation which can be expert
enced only Oh the tops of mountains that
rise entirely isolated between sea and sky, |
and, like Pico, terminate in minute point. !
Thousands OF feet below white clouds lie
scattered like fleet Of ships becalmed;
the white walls Of Horta glisten almost at !
your feet. And the tender green Of Fay
ais softly undulating hills seem SO near
that you may hear the charcoal burners
at their work. To the north and east,
Terciera, Saint George and Graciosa look
like emeralds, surrounded by surf rim
Of pearls, set in the amethystine floor of
the ocean. The blended line OF sea and
sky is indistinguishable- blue
above and below, streaked with lavender,
Nile-green and palest tints Of rose.
Happily, the descent to the herders
cabin is rapidly made, or darkness would
overtake you on the mountain top. After
Jose Maria's savory and much needed /
Pitchers Castor1a.