News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-07-30

OdCko, MAJ hluS TIC VIC SlGI0 HOIlZOD,
with Lake Champlain Montreal to
the north; the twin.giant, Cancels
Hump, with a tumbled sea of smaller
mountains to the south and won
derful nearer landscape on all sides.
Perhaps you will be caught there in
the mist, and be unable to see more
than a few feet and then you can
stand on the brink of some precipice,
of which there is no lack, and listen
to to the mysterious and solemn MUIR
muir that comes up from the depths :;
perhaps you will see what the writer
saw last week, sea of clouds white
as the under side of a freshy-sheared
fleece of wool, stretching away from
your feet to the west, covering Lake
Champlain and the whole world back
to the purple Adirondack line on the
horizon, sea of cloud, whose pillows
we're always changing with solemn
stateliness. No one ever saw ex-
actly the same scene twice, for the
variety is as infinite as eternity, but
whatever one sees will be worth see
ing from daybreak, when the world
rises slowly from darkness, to night,
when it sinks back again, slowly and
solemnly, as if eternity had plenty of
time. There is the young lady who
is afraid the moisture will take the
crimp out of her hair, buried deep in
the mystery of some novel Titles
Grandmother" by Dottie Dimple, or
some stirring romance in which
heroes and heroines go cantering
back and forth over the brain until it
becomes sodden and fit for nothing
else. A Cornell professor who takes
parties of students abroad every sum-
mer, once told me that the only time
when he was inclined to ge tired of
life was when at the ruins of Baalbeck
the grandest sight on earth, in his
estimation-his company of young
women saw nothing of the grandeur,
so absorbed were they in contem.
plating the beauties of puppy dog,
which someone wanted to show them.
Mansfield is a rich field for the ge-
ologist, for there are abundant marks
of the great glacier and the eternal
grinding of the mills of the gods.
Huge stones are scattered over the
summit, some of them trigged up with
big rock, as if some company of
giants had pried up one side and
chucked a rock underneath for it to
rest on. There are great masses of
loose rocks that the glacier evidently
unloaded or got tired of pushing.
Titanic forces have been at work here
tumbling rock masses as big as
houses about as if they were pebbles.
There is no end to this sort of thing,
and if the mist were at its thickeSt
there is plenty underfoot to interest
one who has the gift of seeing "ser-
mons in stones" Birds sing around
the summit, too, the white throated
sparrow being much in evidence, as
we'll as the junco, the myrtle warbler,
and many others which bird expert
will find no difficulty IN identifying.
The flora is interesting, too, many
varieties growing here, at an elevation
of 1850 feet-perfect ferns no longer
than your finger nail, which on the
lowlands grow rank and big, and
many rare shrubs, plants and trees,
and the air is SO laden with the heal
ing balsam that you actually taste it.
As ga cat may look at king" so even
a layman must be permitted to say
that the old story of travelled boulders
being found on this summit, with
glacial scratches, are probably pure
inventions. 1t may perhaps be safe
ly said that there is not rock on the
whole summit which is not native
rock-talcose schist, Gf that's what
it is) with a good sprinkling of
quartz, which has fine crystals here
and there. Right beside the summit
trail there is a stone weighing per-
haps half a ton, of white quartz, but
it has evidently weathered out from
the darker rock. If you have never
been on a mountain and have any
desire to do so and II you are feeble,
or constitutionally tired, then go to
Mansfield. Nobody can tell you
anything about it; you must see it
for yourself to get any idea of it.
The horses are we'll kept, and uniaded
and strong the carriages are staunch;
the harness is stout; the drivers are
sober and careful; the water is pure,
and so cool. as it comes from the
springs and runs laughing across
your path that it needs no ice; di-
sease germs are unknown; the food
is good and well cooked, and every.
thing is clean at the Summit House.
Clement Sued For $4,000.
S. D. Wilson of Cambridge, Mass,
has brought suit against Percival W.