Galesville Transcript (Newspaper) - August 31, 1860, Galesville, Wisconsin Devoted to Home IN S. S. 41 Vol I. CO. AUG. 31, No. the Transcript Song of tho i burnt Like the reveillo drum 1 to my cornet Come in your might When the sunbeams bright strikes tho grain with golden ii Come men of Conic maidens laughing youth their toils to Come from As each Follow iron in The poet's rhyme Of erery clime given unto Father Time The which Cuts want 1'mbleni of to IV But I'm coming With which swiftly Each loaded without Quickly serve on my v shuie to Let painter's and modern Our vision And senses Time upon my driver's seat VI Now nit And Yankee grit much too fist to wait a onward stride In honest If Time's behind I'll let him ride vi t Like the reveille drum I nay to my follow era Come from afar As fades each Follow Iron N. E. D. to the Old to the Old Father Time his blime MT. July 20, MR. we got up a company at for the of my sister John Henry and his Miss Sarah Mrs. and Mr. J. M. Henry and Mr. were ab- sent from home on but had en- gaged to meet us to-day at the We came and stopped for the night with my Elisha A. who resides three miles east of the foot of the Mr. Town and his lady and eldest joined our party and we started for the ascent of tho We rode up the side of the tain to tho within 1 1-2 miles of the We then left tho and seeing the ladies mounted on commenced the steep and rocky becoming the Our bridle path led us up the steep side of the through a dense tangled forest of spruce and balsam over through mud holes and along lofty after a toilsome march of two and a half hours wo reached with the Mountain an excellent Hotel on the top of the After resting our singing and partaking of an our with two dozen others who had arrived there from other parts of the set out for a walk along the summit ridge to the abont 1 3-4 We reached the Chin with the usual accidents of battered ed ankles and only two of the dies having and by i the Mount Mansfield is feet and with the exception of Mount of the White Mountains of N. is the highest mountain in Western England or New The prominent points on the top of the mount are known as the and Forehead from the resemblance of a man's so striking is the to a person six miles dis- either east or that it requires but little imagination to make out Father on his watching for the Aurora of and counting the revolutions of Major and The Chin is nearly two hundred feet higher than the nose and distant north two miles by Mr. Town informed mo that he had in carrying the chain to make the The Nose rises from the upper lip in one bold overhanging cliff nearly three hundred Along upon the upper Lin the and lock have grown in a dense thicket from ten to fifteen feet giving the a very respectable so dense is this thicket that the heavy snows of winter lodge on tho boughs of the trees and by the action of the wind become so that one can safely walk upon the tops of the trees with while underneath the rabbits and other animals riot with safety Mr. Town informed me that a few years ago he followed a bear into this covert and tracked him round and round for but the cunning old Bruin was too sharp eyed to allow head to become the mark for the A few trees south of the Nose constitute and the balance of the old face is as clear as a less The rock itself is interspersed with veins of Quart a The top of the rock is plainly and deeply showing that the great Diluvial current carried large rocks over this lofty in a south-eastern Who can deny that the of the great deep were broken when they see such unmistakable evidence of a current over the tops of the highest The view from the chin is very ating to any one having a respectable amount of ideality and In looking North your attention is first attracted by a fearful precipice of one thousand at the bottom of is a beautiful little lake of half an At the right of the lake another fearful decent carries the vision to the bottom of Mansfield From the ab- ruptly rises Sterling which ex- tends east nearly four miles when it is cut down by the valley of Waterbury Looking again north from the Chin the main range of Green Mountains does not appear as a continuous but as a succession of like so many separate hay stack until the view is interrupted by tho de- cending Looking down towards the you unconsciously deep urv fathomed as you imagine yourself on the top of a lofty precipice feet Far the little valleys ate their waters which form the West Branch of Waterbury The Branch wanders eastward until it unites with tho river six miles at the village of On the south of the Branch a high Spur of the with a sloping side on the runs down towards the where it nates by a few irregular hilla near that and about six miles from the is the source of which receives its main tributaries from the during its whole southerly course to Winoski eighteen miles This river forms a broad interesting under a good state of and has several flourishing the most of is About four miles east of Waterbury are high hills called the or which run allel with the river until cut down the Beyond these is a- succession of and south valleys and hills un- til the view is closed by the high White Mountains of New Hampshire and the towering peak of Mt. The Mils are all covered with the evergreen Hemlock and while their sides and the intervening valleys present alternate groves of hardwood timber and square blocks of In many of the so much of the land is in grassy that they present the of the prairie valley before its settlement by On tho south the peaks are not so numerous as at the and the view is mainly terminated by the lofty summit called which is not aa high as Mount but is much resorted to by travelers and is said to present quite as picturesque a On the view from Mansfield ia Lake Champlain is about twenty miles its crystal wa- ters sparkling in the with many sleeping smoking boats and gliding sail It es north and south as far as eye can Its extreme width is only about ten Between the mountains and the lake is a comparatively level try of great filled with cultivated sparkling rivulets and meandering with its sharp church and towering University dome shining like a is quietly reposing on the bank of the Beyond the the with its many rises gradually until it apparently terminates the lofty old tops of the Mountains of New York tho atmosphere it slightly but in the clearest days you can see Montreal seventy dis- and count fifty without the assistance of a The physical effort to reach the top of tho and the fresh pure phere so the body and the mind that the old feels really happy and free from and if he not sing is quite sure to try his with a regular Mt. Camel's Hump and Mt. are constantly resorted to by summer tourists in New and afford them the most pleasant of their travels in this G. FATAL the 23d of as two named Jonathan Roc and Frank living at Detroit near the were going from the shore to a vessel anchored out in the in a sail it is were struck by a squall and Both men were and the bodies the next Frank was a single is sad to relate leaves behind a wife and family to whom his loss is commend them to the care and consolation of the Islanders in the hour of their sad City SAD ACCIDENT IN On the evening of the 17th Miss Alice a young lady of eighteen met her death in a very sudden and singular manner at She was exercising on and accidentally came in con- tact with a stake or pole projecting from a in such a manner as to strike her person in the rupturing an She bled to death in about two MADAME LOLA who was lately reported to be at the point of death from has been removed to a healthy locality on Long and her is progressing She haa lost the use of her left bat her physician has hopes of Her ultimate re- Paris contains nearly
