The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-19
MARsHFIELp MoUNTAINalal
Highest Of Green Mountain Range Easy
of Access 94ioa I'll

OF ACCtSSs
1911 rs nof4Q. 81. snn+i ~ =.
There IS 2 mountain ~ notfherf n erf I
mont known to moderns at Mt. Mans
field, because it. is in what, WAS once the
teFh 1T MANSFIELD, which town long ago
was divided betNeeni JnderhillH land
Stowe. The old Indian name of the
mountain IS said to have been a lost
Eord signifying nose. and Chin on aer
count OF the fancied resemblance of the
A9riz6r outline pf it to an npturnedi hut
t11an face, whether viewed from the east
OF west. The resemblance iseso strong
that it takes but little stretch of the
imagination to trace it9 the nose being
iiear the south end and the chin at the
north end. To be sure, the nose appears
ike an exaggerated pug, and the chin
i pretty massive, but i'll yon consider
that the -oead is well yurned back and
the chin proportionately elevated yeu.
hatei0 quite clearly,a aa 93nlie4
The summit Of the highest peak Of
she the Green Mountain range is within
reasy reach Of anyone zwhoais lstEong
lenough to. climb into q carriage. Few
epountain peaks OF any height can be
descended without a vast expenditure Of
physical force -so great anfexpenditure,
that many constitutions that might
thave been kept fairly strong with proper
care, haYe been wrecked by it, the
spirits having driven the f'aesh'iI I'M
Idly a Mount Mansfield sunrise and
Fthe News from the matehless8 Vermont
mountain cost not a cent. 8aa 3sst
The scenes spread before the visitor
Ito the mountain top need not be desr
cr9bai4 even If 1T were pessible4-howi on
4 aseIeAf day one may see the White Noun
a taips 90 miles to the easts the .Adiron-
dacks, marking the western horizon
with Lake Champlain in the foreground,
4 to the wests Montreal TO the nerth.
4 the twin giant, Cancels Hump, with Ia
tumbled sen OF smaller mountains, to
n The south. and, a wonderful nearer land-
Escape on all sides. Perhaps YOU viii be
\ caught there in the mist, and he unable
to see more than a faw feat!6and then
n You can stand ON the brink Of some pre-
cipiee, of which there is no lack and lis
teh to the mysterious and solemn MUIR
MIR dllat comes up from the depthss
perhaps you will see what the writer
/ saw recently, a sea of clouds, white as
the underside Ola freshly sheared fleece
Of wool, stretching away from your feet
< 10 the wests covering Lake Ghanplain
and the whole world back to the0purple
adirondack line oftthe horizon a sea Of
clouds, whose pillows We're always
changing with solemn steadfness. No
one ever saw exactly the same scene
! twice, for the variety is as infinite az
eternity, but whatever one secs will fbt
worth seing from daybrealz, when the
world rises slowly from darkness, tc
, Enight, when it sinks back again, slowly
land solemnly, as if eternity had plenty
cf time ,aaoM4I3 Aaa Aoa
Mansfield is rich field for the geo
| tlopist, for there are abundant marks d
the great glaeierfand the eternal grind
J ing off the mills of the gods, Hugs
stones Aare scattered over the Summit
lsome a them trigged up with a big rocE
| ASST some eompany8of giants had pries
up ones side and chueked q rock beneath
tfor it to rest on There are great masse
/. on loose rocks that the glacier evidently
lunioaded 81 got Tired Of pushing Titan
ia forces have been at work here tumbl
ING rock masses as big as house
, about rs Ii they were pebbles. Their
, is no end to this sort Of thing, and If tn
I mist we're at its thickest there is plent.
ofunderf6ot to interest one who has til
fgift Of seeing sermons in stones.
: birds sing around the summit, too, th
I. lwhitethroated sparrow being much =
\ evidence, as we'll as the juncd, the fnyr
! tie wasbler and many Others which
bird expert wilt find no difficulty i
Identifying. The hora is interesting
too. many varieties growing here, at a
( elevation 81 4s0e feet, perfect ferns, n
, longersthan your finger nail, which, o
Y the lowlandssg afaw crank and bigse en-
i many rare sNrWlhs, plants and trees, an
5 the air Il so faden with The healing bal
!. sam that you actually taste it.
1 liil1f you have never been on a mouptal
i, land, y6lt haze any desire to do 50 and
: YOU ae feeble and constitutiaiiall
7 ttned. Chem 20 to Mansfield Nobody ca
/ EtelF yeil anything about it; You mus
{. see it FOR yourself to get any idea (
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