. East of the White Hills. ^out his plans. His wife and daughter, however, withunusual fidelity to right action, certainly with unquali-fied munificence, have carried into execution what heanticipated. Thomas L. Jenks was born in Conway, N. H.,June 20, 1829, a short distance south from the site ofthe Memorial Library. He died in Boston, Octobe-81, 1899. The place offers many inducements for summertourists, and no one will feel that it is time and moneywasted to stop here awhile for rest and recreation. Theair is pure and bracing, the scenery delightful, thepeople genial and >-<
. East of the White Hills. ^out his plans. His wife and daughter, however, withunusual fidelity to right action, certainly with unquali-fied munificence, have carried into execution what heanticipated. Thomas L. Jenks was born in Conway, N. H.,June 20, 1829, a short distance south from the site ofthe Memorial Library. He died in Boston, Octobe-81, 1899. The place offers many inducements for summertourists, and no one will feel that it is time and moneywasted to stop here awhile for rest and recreation. Theair is pure and bracing, the scenery delightful, thepeople genial and >-< CL -J -J< O X H Mt. Chocorua and the Legend. ^T^HE two Chocoruas are as near, if not nearer, alike^ than the Siamese twins. One is a desolate,rocky, craggy, peaked substance, the summit of whichsuggests the half-turned head and beak of an eagle onthe watch against danger; the other is the wraith ofthe proud and lonely shape above. What a rich, sonorous word Chocorua is! Doesnot its rhythm suggest the wildness and loneliness ofthe great hills? To our ears it always brings with itthe sigh of the winds through mountain pines. Nomountain of New Hampshire has interested our bestartists more. It bears the name of an Indian chief,and is invested with traditional and poetic form it is massive and symmetrical. It has thefortune to be set in connection with lovely water scen-ery,—with Squam, and Winnipiseogee, and Chocorualake directly at its base,—the latter one of the mostbeautiful bits of water in New England. Its pinnacle,too, that looks so sheer and defiant, is
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