The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . unseen altar crowns the hills That reach up stair on stair?What eyes look through, what whitewings fanThese purple veils of air?What Presence from the heavenlyheightsTo those of earth stoops down ?Not vainly Hellas dreamed of godsOn Idas snowy crown ! The early history of Choeorua isshrouded in legend, tradition, andimagination. Even its legend is toldin at least five radically differentways. But after all, the sweet mys-ticism and beauty of many a quaintlegend or even a leaf of history 184 IN THE CHOCOR
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . unseen altar crowns the hills That reach up stair on stair?What eyes look through, what whitewings fanThese purple veils of air?What Presence from the heavenlyheightsTo those of earth stoops down ?Not vainly Hellas dreamed of godsOn Idas snowy crown ! The early history of Choeorua isshrouded in legend, tradition, andimagination. Even its legend is toldin at least five radically differentways. But after all, the sweet mys-ticism and beauty of many a quaintlegend or even a leaf of history 184 IN THE CHOCORUA COUNTRY. - First House on Chocorua. - —^cj-SV would be taken away if the coldlight of nineteenth century investi-gation was to be thrown too scruti-nizingly upon it. The legend mayhave been largely the product ofliterature, but at least it exists andis told to-day by those settlers ofthe hills to whose eye the writtenaccount may never have come. The mountain was known andmapped as Chocorua decades beforethe legend was ever written. On amap of New Hampshire, published. m . h SB mo James Liberty. in 1791 by Jeremy Belknap in hishistory, Chocorua is the only moun-tain of the Sandwich range to belocated or named. Moat mountainand Red hill were the only othersummits named on this map, evenMount Washington being undesig-nated there. The same authority,writing in 1792, has this to say ofthe region: Farther back (fromthe Wakefields) the mountains arehigher, and among the third rangeChocorua, Osapy, and Kyarsargeclaim the preeminence. James Liberty, an enterprisingFrenchman, succeeded in obtaininga charter for a road and path here,which he opened in 1881. He hadthe help of many of the townspeople,who gave money or labor. The car-riage road was extended to an oldlogging camp a mile and three quar-ters abcve the Durrell house. Herea horse camp was located. Be-yond this the path was straightenedand improved. A stone camp wassoon erected of split rock, under thepeak. The canvas roof bl
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