. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . d Prue found her river expanded into a broadinegular sheet of ruffled water, where tiny white caps were sparklingin the sunlight, and the breeze blew stiff and cool. How refreshingwas that wind, chilled bv the frosty crags, and fragrant with the vastspruce woods of the nortli! What promises of joy and vigor it heldout to us jaded ones; and how richly were those promises afterwardfulfilled! This western wind hath Lethean powers, Yon noonday cloud Xepenth
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . d Prue found her river expanded into a broadinegular sheet of ruffled water, where tiny white caps were sparklingin the sunlight, and the breeze blew stiff and cool. How refreshingwas that wind, chilled bv the frosty crags, and fragrant with the vastspruce woods of the nortli! What promises of joy and vigor it heldout to us jaded ones; and how richly were those promises afterwardfulfilled! This western wind hath Lethean powers, Yon noonday cloud Xepenthe lake is white with lotus-flowers! * * Prue, happening to look over my shoulder at this page of manuscript, warns methat if I dont put quotation marks about this stanza, readers who dont happen to recallthe verses will think theyre mine instead of Mr. Whittiers! This is rather hard on thesupreme poet of New England landscape; and I may as well declare, once for all, that Ishall in no case enter into competition with him, or any lesser rhymer, and thereforecan safely omit the unsightly marks from all quotations of poetry. 18. 10 After touching at Wolfeborough (of which more anon), the prowwas headed straight up the lake, and our trip really began. On our leftwas the rough elevation of Rattlesnake island, — to wliich the snakesare welcome, as Baily remarked — and behind it rose the dark andhandsome mass of Belknap mountain, with its regular twin peaks dom-inating the lateral heights and foothills in Gilford and Alton. Thehigher of the two peaks reaches 2,394 feet * and is an important stationin the service of the Coast Survey, upon whose maps it is designatedMt. Gunstock. The view from this summit, pronounced one of therichest and most fascinating in New England, embraces not only thewhole of the lake region and a host of mountains beyond, but a vastarea southward between tlie sea coast and Wachusett. The regularascent is made fromLaconia by a drive of seven mile
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