. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . the smooth meadows, dotted with gipsy encampments of 229 elms and maples, exceedingly green in the sunlight, while here andthere glistening spaces or ribbons showed where a pond slept or ariver wt^ndered. The nearer hillsides were fairly ablaze with color,—not in solid masses of flame; that would have been too much; butin innumerable points of carmine, orange and yellow, evenly scatteredamong white-and-green birches and the richly dark spruce and
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . the smooth meadows, dotted with gipsy encampments of 229 elms and maples, exceedingly green in the sunlight, while here andthere glistening spaces or ribbons showed where a pond slept or ariver wt^ndered. The nearer hillsides were fairly ablaze with color,—not in solid masses of flame; that would have been too much; butin innumerable points of carmine, orange and yellow, evenly scatteredamong white-and-green birches and the richly dark spruce and can trace the waters of the Saco almost continuously from itssource to its mouth, but no part of it is so lovely as those exquisitegreen intervales at Conway, encircled by the autumnal hillsides. There are ponds by the score, each reflecting the clouds or flashingthe sunlight. Sebago seems quite near, and a strong glass discernsthe smoke of Portland and the glimmer of light upon the sails inCasco bay. The ocean itself is readily visible in a proper light; and,farthest of all, INIonaduock, 100 miles distant, straight south, sketches. MT. WASHINGTON, FROJI CONWAY MEADOAVS. a faint blue crescent upon the horizon. Eastward, Maine stretchesaway comparatively level, yet not monotonously so, the foregroundspangled with irregular lakelets and embroidered with streams andshadowy glens, and the horizon notched with pale blue summits. Theloftier groups toward the Rangeley lakes are hidden from sight. InTicknors Guide an elaborate description of all that is to be seen fromthis peak is written out, supplemented by a panoramic sketch. Toward sunset that evening, we left the hotel and sauntered downthe road to the covered bridge. The sky was serene and sun shone with a soft and elegant lustre, such as seems peculiarto that delightful weather which, from the 20tli of September to the20th of October, so often elicits from the mouths of mankind the 230 epithet of charming. Mil
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