The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-09-24
A Trip TO Mount Tabor.

ine. We were off at an early hour.
Where the Lake and Chester roads
met, signal bush was lying in the
road, sign that friends had passed.
Reaching the village the team was at
the store. Then on TO the top of
Stowell hill, now the fates we're
against us, for facing for GAINESVILLE
ruts, puddles and mud to
match met us. As our other self was
holding the reius, at once was COM
menced the stridlng of ruts and pud- |
dies, stunning some and plunging into
others, and when the carriage was
drawn out reeking, many learned ex-
pressions were heard in regard to the
Critic. Hapgood element. We start.
ed with clean carnage and reached |
GAINESVILLE axletrees, wheels and
body covered with mud. 70 avoid
mud turned up the school house hill,
and in one half hour turned by Zed
Shepherds, next came to the ancient
Kimball place occupied and owned by
the Jaquith's, in one mile came to
the Tabor road from Weston to Dandy
borough, here we dropped the sig
nal bush, it being three miles to the
den and nine to the borough With
in one nalf mile of our acatlaatloa we
heard the rumbling of wheels, turn
ing, saw our friends bearing upon us
at double quick. In a few minutes
in closed up ranks reached our desti-
nation, on roll call ten persons res
popded, two teams containing four
persons missing, present four horses,
one dog. Stripping the harnesses
from the leeking horses, it was found
to be ten by the watch. So some
went crystal hunting, others wonder
seeking but time flies, noon came,
the cloth is spread, and the matrons
triumphant voice called to dinner.
Down from the cliffs and up from the
gorge came the patrons around that
cloth of bouuteons supplies. Now
we have found the truth in what we
have heard so often said, if they had
dinner to eat and wanted It to taste
just right, they would carry it into
the mountain to eat it. Fairly in our
epicurian pleasures we thought of the
two absent teams, some suggested
sickness, sotne company etc. Din
ner through and things put away,
came the call, "down to the sheds, ;"
walking up the road about 20 or more
| rods, birch tree is reached, this tree
is six inches through standing prUin.
inently to the road. Turning short
around this tree, one steps down into
path leading into the gorge, and the
saying ''steep as the roof of the
house," has no bearing here. In
about thirty or more rods one comes
to an immense BOULDER of Gneiss, aud
this rock is looked upon with great
veneration it being segment from
the earliest slratified mineral deposit
of this planet, lying next to the gran
tie and forced to the surface by
earthquake forces through 10000
feet Of other variies Of stratifed aud
cong lomerate rocks, this boulder is
tightly cleft from the top running I'M
der and down and fallen off, hence
the name Of slird On the walls and
ceiling are the names OF visitors put
on with white paint and pencil brush
Farther down are other boulders not
as large but very interesting to the
geolo9ist, the first of which is an i'm.
mense boulder in which we saw nc
rents but thickly set about with scat.
tered boulders or fragments of rocks
the last of the series of sheds still
lower down, and at the bottom of Thu
gorge alb ut six feet away, witt
prominent face 10 tile last previou.
mentioned This rock contains
fracture commencing about ten fee
up The face and widening as it reache.
the bottom, forming the entrance O
cave and as we looked down upol
it, seemed large enough for man Il
go IN. We could not reach this cav,
without great labor but the view look
ed dark and uninviting. Heariu.
a shout from our friends at the uppe
: shed we cast one look up this terrbl
way then commenced our painful as
, cent, grasping bushes when in GU
reach, when not more friendly boul
ders. Reaching our awaiting friend
at the upper shed, resting few mo
ments and casting one more lool
down our awful ascent, all common
ced ascent out of the gorge. Reach
ing the highway and finding our tw
hunters had started bee and wer
off on the line away from our know
edge. So In a geological point 0
: view we began to look over the lime
7 stone out put. On reaching this DIES
tination in the morning the first motto
a IDLE presentlngs are two remnants G
e low cliffs of impure carbonate of lime
apparently having been worked i
g some far off day by the settler, unde
erCh OF these is an entrance or mas