. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . y I saw this in proof, though he didnt mean I should. The idea!Ab though I had no enjoyment in, not to speak of any appreciation of, the scenery, andthe songs of birds, and that sort of thing, until he taught me! I hate to speak rightout in mcetin this way, but I wont be so misunderstood,— yes, misrepresented bythat horrid man, to all the dear frieuds we made up in those perfectly delightfulmountains. —P. 225 Mountains? Oh, lots of em. You remember when
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . y I saw this in proof, though he didnt mean I should. The idea!Ab though I had no enjoyment in, not to speak of any appreciation of, the scenery, andthe songs of birds, and that sort of thing, until he taught me! I hate to speak rightout in mcetin this way, but I wont be so misunderstood,— yes, misrepresented bythat horrid man, to all the dear frieuds we made up in those perfectly delightfulmountains. —P. 225 Mountains? Oh, lots of em. You remember when you were onLake Winnipesaukee all those big peaks northward,— Chocorua, Pas-saconaway, Paugus, White-face and the others? What a question! of course we do. Well, I was right behind them, and close at their base, but Iwould never have recognized them. They form one side of the wallaround this delightful spot; and then comes in Hedgehog (swinginground toward the north, you know), Tremont, and others, cleararound to Moat mountain and Haystack, down at the mouth of theriver. The river itself, by the the way, was wandering through the. THE PINNACLES. meadows very uncertainly and quietly, in the weakness of extremeyouth, for it is born just above. ISTow that a railroad is building fromBartlett, it wont be long before the place will be a popular point withthe tourists, and the road will find their passenger-traffic a bigger itemthan their lumber-carrying. In the fall it ought to be especially at-tractive, for fully half the timber is hard wood. The swamp mapleswere brilliant crimson even when I was there, and the whole valleymust now be like a great Japanese punch-bowl for color. 226 That night there Avas a terriffic storm, but it lulled soon after mid-night, and the morning broke clear and still. Our first look wastowards Kearsarge, which we meant to climb; and as I saw it Iquoted those lines in Lucilc :— And high over oar headThe wrecks of combat of Titans were g
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