The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-09-28

than one taken over the road in an automobile
when Mr.. Mark, just buying new car and
learning to run it, "tried it out" to speed and
general desirability. To reach Middlebury,one
changes at Claremont Junction. N. H., and
changes again at Bellows Falls, VT, for the
Rutland Railroad. The scenery is wonderful
all the way. Winding streams and rivers,
picturesque towns and villages. and the ever
changing beauty of the mountains and hills
lend it diversity of charm that never wearies
the eye At one point we looked straight up
at a hill top beside the track, probably two
hundred feet high. and soon after we were
winding around another hill from which we
looked down nearly as far upon the roofs and
streets of some town. The most interesting
thing along the route, to me, however, was the
marble quarries that appeared after we were
we'll into Vermont At Proctor. VT. all the
rocks appeared to be white marble, the side
walks and steps and walls and foundations
were of white marble, and at the depot i'm
mense piles of marble slabs and blocks were
Grated up ready for shipment Between Proc
tor and Brandon, Vt. even the foundations OF
several old barns were of the cleaning white
stone which we at home have been accustomed
to treat with the greatest veneratlon and res
pect, Everywhere it was peepng out f4om
the hills of the fields and pastures. and here in
Middlebury the whiteness of the marble IN the
many fine buildings gives the town peculiar
beauty of its own.
1t may be the whteness of the rocks that
prlu hut
mont has seized me with grip that no other
State has ever had outside of good old Maine.
This is the land of Inspirations. and would
that under their spell my pen might pant Tor
you some of these scenes as see them IL Is
the land of Ethan Allen and the Green Noun
tain boys, and Otter Creek still meanders as
peacefully thrc ugh the town as it did in those
OLD days. From the office window watch a
cascade of it's foaming waters, and dream OF
those who, more than a century ago, on TINS
very spot, SO nobly won their way to freedom.
Lake Dunmore and the famous cave under the
shadow of Mooslamoo mountain are only
few miles away on the east You have of
course read THE Green Mountain Boys"
which begins thus: These who have wander
ed along the banks of the Otter Creek. In
search of the beautiful and picturesque, may
have extended their rambles, perhaps, to the
hills few miles to the eastward of that quiet
stream" Reading the old story again. amidst
the scenes which it pictures wildly. is like
living in those old times, and l seem to meet
here Ethan Allen and his followers, in the
spirit if not In the flesh. Five or six miles
away, on the east of Middlebury is the Green
Mountain range and the unobstructed view of
it from the home of Mr.. 5. B. Anes, where l
have the good fortune to board, is most beauti-
full Like all mountain scenery, it is constant
ly changing with every change of the atmos-
phere, now approaching SO near that one can
see every detail of the hills, now receding I'M
til all detail is lost in soft mist and haze.
Especially is this view of the mountains beau
tiful, under the radiance of the harvest moon
which softens it into land of dreams On the
west side of Middebury. about twenty miles
away, are the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain
and Ticonderoga. One Sunday afternoon l
went for a walk of about three miles. with the