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The wild flowers begin to flaunt their blue and crimson draperies
about us, as if conscious that they are borne upon the bosom
of undecaying beauty; and the spot so marked and hallowed by each
charming variety of bud and blossom, would seem to have been a
selected dwelling for the queenly Spring herself.
Man, mindful of those tastes and sensibilities which in great part
constitute his claim to superiority over the brute, has not been
indifferent to the beauties of the place. In the winding hollows
of these hills, beginning at our feet, you see the first signs of
as lovely a little hamlet as ever promised peace to the weary and
the discontent. This is the village of Charlemont.
A dozen snug and smiling cottages seem to have been dropped in
this natural cup, as if by a spell of magic. They appear, each of
them, to fill a fitted place--not equally distant from, but equally
near each other. Though distinguished, each by an individual feature,
there is yet no great dissimilarity among them. All are small, and
none of them distinguished by architectural pretension.


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