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A Magnificent Prospect-A Tramp.


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Owls HEAD Sept. l.


Have you evor stood on the summit of the
Eghi, in Switzerland 1t is said to command
the finest view in that land Of magnificent pros
pects once stood on its top and saw the sun
come up in its glory till forests, lakes, rivers and
villages sprang into life and beauty, and the
whole range of the Barnese Alps from Sentas to
the Jungfrau gli!tered in red and gold, while the
vast snow fields slept in deep shadow bctween.-
Ny eye never opened on more glorious pano,
rama, and stood amid its surprising beauties
in silent amazement. The view, it is said, EN-
braces tract of country 300 miles in circum-
ference, with eleven lakes in sight from the
summit, though never could make out more
than half that number. The Righi has become
almost classic name, while the o Wis Head, ="
from which date M letter, has never yet dared
10 show its face in civilized lfe Indeed the
name has been given by man wandering by,
from its shape, and it waits new christening.
A forester here has requested me to give it q
name, promising it shall keep it. If you will
sead me one l will see to, the christening, and
you shall have the honor of raining mountain
which is far more imposing than giving name
to baby. And it deserves good one, for in.
significant as it may seem to stand on an owls
head, 1t looks of on prospect that would make
your heart stand stillin your bosom. Look away
toward that distant horizon. In It's broad sweep
round the heavens, it takes in nearly 400 miles
while between slumbers an ocean-brt il is an
ocean OF trse-tops. Conceive, if you can, this
vasiexpanse stretching on and spreading away iii
Tho bright green becomes shaded into a deep
black, With not souad to break the mighty soil.
tude, and not hands breadth of land in view
throughout the whole. Il is vast forest ocean,
with mounsa'n-ridges for pillows, rolling smooth
ly and gently on like the subsiding swell of a
storm. stand on the edge OF precipice which
throws its naked wall far down TO the tops of the
h'trees below, and look off on this to me new
snd strange spectacle. The life that villages
sno towns and cultivated 6el ds give to g land.
cape Is not here, neither is there the barrerness
ano death of the desert Il is all yegotatioD
luxurious gigantic vegetation; but man has had
no hand IN 1t. 1t stands IS the Almighty made
II majestic and silent, save when the wind .,