| Show correspondent Correspond ene e of the new haven journal Jo ronall visit to the dismal swamp virginia mortal man never conceived a more ilace flace place than the entrance to this swa swamp it really y quires requires uncommon nerves to enter the thickets upon the border of the swamp and the courage I 1 of a napolean would quake A canal is made through 9 it the swamp and it goes through the lake a part of the way on I 1 the bank of the lake the stage roid TOW has been laid out and we were ivere driven over this road leisurely I 1 handmade and ma made ja short ext excursion arst sinto ilio tile thickets when h jq ve could suwim summon n sli bit sufficient courage 1 we were obliged lo 10 leave our vehicle in evaige of or our driver and penetrate the thickets with an old negro who acted as a sort of guide we would send him blin ahead to make inake a division divisi oll in the cloud of mosquitoes that was always hovering over and about our heads and then theta we would follow in his wake visions of canebrake serpents and coper copper heads kept haunting us and our fertile imaginations kept a huge alligator before us ready t swallow us ug body soul and breeches but we I 1 did not see pee an all alligator and have since been informed that alligators are not found in the swarre but the animal creation is numerous and anil snakes and lizards are found in abundance besides all kinds of wafer waler fowl rowl and insects insect and every tiling thing that creeps on the face of or the earth seem 0 to o be striving for en an existence in this swamp noahs ark never represented the tile animal creation better belter or was never nevor filled with an bomani inana living and creep ng things as now exist in the file dismal swamp in virginia birds of vf the most must beautiful plumage abound in this swamp arid and we noticed some great indo lent looking herons who seemed quite tamp tame and hardly seemed aware of our presence and certainly looking too lazy to stir huge buil burl frogg not quite as large as a common dog were lying about on the bank of the lake dense dge swarms of epher ephemera nera and sand flies fill the air snakes and lizards lizardi of abe the most horrid proportions crawl among llie tile underbrush the vegetation of the swamp is more luxurious ilhan ithan ban han can be sern seen in any offer oil er part of the world the timber is pine oak sweet gum black gum holly the tulip tree trec and the cypress loaded down with lone lona one ong festoons fes oes lons tons of moss that give the tile whole vegetable creation a arly ariy sombre appearance trees and shrubs that I 1 rever heard of bedor behor were found hound upon very side and our ebony guide told us its their n nimes aimea imes and chewed his knowledge to a good advantage and ani seemed to us a second audibon immense so thickly interwoven with vines as to prevent our passage them were encircling us uron upon every side when we changed our course and turned toward the lake we arrived there about sunset and ana were ejust just in time to hear bear the musical mu iani entertainment that is given there every night by the bull froc frogs tree iree toad load whip poor wills turtle doers and A erand grand overture by the hull bull frogs was the first performance we listened IP to and it was admirably executed especially the bas by tile the bigmouthed bie big mouthed fellow in the llie distance mouth opened and closed jike a tobacco box then came cam a solo performance by a tree free toad perched upon the i jimb limb mb of a tulip tree exactly above our heads the mosi most beautiful passages pasia ies jes in casta diva were erp ere by an old thi mosquito 39 that alighted on my arm and began to toi try the quality of my broadcloth broad cloth ile he had find an nj ei ex cellena soprano voice hut but lacked emphasis and nd articulation it was getting dark when the grand cipale commenced and we only slopped to in listen tp to it before starting starling homeward mevard ho no idea cah can can betoni be formed of its grandeur i the whippoorwill whip poor will opened the grand charls charis in a monotonous strain followed by the thi clear elear distinct notes of tree trie toad load and the ilie strains of or tile the turlie turtle dove while white the tile air air was chanted by bir about ten thousand mosquitoes moqui oes Aes then came cam the thunder tones from frogs and i hey they opened and closed 0 heir air months mouths with as its much preci precision ion lon as the images on a hand or ur gan qan oan can soon tile thunder tones of llie file bull frog orchestra becan began to sound along tile llie borders of tile the lake and set rood tried to echo like the of or distant da tant thunder the screech owl sent pent a piercing cry from froin yonder tree and tried to drown I 1 tile llie bullfrog bull frog thunder hurder t every living tind and cerep creeping tiling thin seemed anxious lo 10 drown Is and nii nil creation joined j ined hands in ill a great gre grf at medley ms atey during this performance we left the fakki fako impressed with wilh the idea flint eliat the tile had llad come and that gabriel as was blowing his tru trunie trumpet nip somewhere and we were mere unable to Ile lle hear bear arhim him we left the like lile like of the dismal swa swamp nip by moonlight and c ud not help repeating the tle beautiful song that we ve have heard the huch hueh antons sing 0 o descriptive derca etive of this gamy place and yet human beings make this swamp their abode here nere the dunaway slave finds what seems to him a paradise here live on thi spontaneous productions of the coil and often oon is biffer untold hardships hard hips rather than emerge from their gloomy obide abide 4 NOT so VERY veny giefen A and lanil app apparently a antly slip who nave cave his hailing pl acS 4 om garmount Yar var mount found himself surrounded upon a certain occasion by fly a crowd of or quizzing up it starts who seemed bent upon displaying their thi r own smartness at the expense hello nelio jonathan says saly oe n here are jou you bo bound und doun to toB bostin r on a little 1 I amp tamp was the reply renly your bu business siness in boston baston c continued onti u ed t ayour thein the inquisitive quis ive gentleman oh im deaoun arter my pension money re responded s the greeny I 1 pension money ejaculated oskeree how much do you get and what are you drawing pension money for oh answered the 1 11 I get fourd cent centis every year ewt mind my own business busi busl nebs neEs and let other folks business alone alonet xi th the crowd had no more mure i remarks t gge oil the answer was enair entirely ely satisfactory |
