. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . the proper focal dis-tance, or somethingof tliekind? What I readwas Avritten by ; but theidea in that particu-lar phrase is StarrKings. Hand me,if you please, hisWhite mils. Thankyou. Now,—let mesee,— oh, here it is,on page 175 : NorthConway, he in-structs us, lies atthe proper focal dis-tance from the hillsthat enclose it, andfrom the Mt. Wash-ington range, to com-mand various andrich landscape ef-fects, and this nodoubt is the greatcharm of
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . the proper focal dis-tance, or somethingof tliekind? What I readwas Avritten by ; but theidea in that particu-lar phrase is StarrKings. Hand me,if you please, hisWhite mils. Thankyou. Now,—let mesee,— oh, here it is,on page 175 : NorthConway, he in-structs us, lies atthe proper focal dis-tance from the hillsthat enclose it, andfrom the Mt. Wash-ington range, to com-mand various andrich landscape ef-fects, and this nodoubt is the greatcharm of the place. In another place, he assures us that a most accurate report ofthe meadow-forms and mountain-guards of the village would giveno suggestion of its loveliness, and goes on: One always finds, wetliink, on a return to North Conway, that his recollections of itsloveliness M^ere inadequate to the reality. Such profuse and calmbeauty sometimes reigns over the whole village, that it seems to be alittle quotation from Arcadia, or a suburb of Paradise. Who can tellhow it is that the trees here seem of more aristocratic elegance,—. pitmans arch — NO. CONWAY. 218 that the shadows are more delicately penciled,— that the curves ofthe brooks are more seductive thau elsewhere? Wliy do the nightsseem more tender and less solemn? What has touched the ledgyrocks with a grace that softens the impression of sublimity andage? What has made the twilight parks of pine dim with a pensive,rather than a melancholy, dusk? .... The atmosphere and the out-lines of the hills seem to lull rather than stimulate. There are nocrags, no pinnacles, no ramparts of rock, no mountain frown orsavageness brought into contrast, at any point, with the general serenebeaut J. Kearsarge is a rough and scraggy mountain, when you attemptto climb it, but its lines ripple off softly to the plain. Mt. Wash-ington does not seem so much to stand up, as to lie out at ease across
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