. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. ?£? Which slopes to the western gleams:And gliding and springing,She went ever singing, THE SACO VALLEY. 207 In murmurs as soft as sleep; The Earth seemed to love her, And Heaven smUed above her,As she lingered towards the deep. But a more wild and beautiful waterfall than any hitherto seen onthe western side of the mountains, was discovered on Mount WUleyin September, 1858, by Mr. Ripley of North Conway, and Mr. Por-ter of New York. An old fisherman had reported at the CrawfordHodse that he had once seen a wonderful cascade on a str
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. ?£? Which slopes to the western gleams:And gliding and springing,She went ever singing, THE SACO VALLEY. 207 In murmurs as soft as sleep; The Earth seemed to love her, And Heaven smUed above her,As she lingered towards the deep. But a more wild and beautiful waterfall than any hitherto seen onthe western side of the mountains, was discovered on Mount WUleyin September, 1858, by Mr. Ripley of North Conway, and Mr. Por-ter of New York. An old fisherman had reported at the CrawfordHodse that he had once seen a wonderful cascade on a stream thatpours down that mountain, and empties into the Saco below the Wil-ley House. These gentlemen drove through the Notch to the sec-ond bridge below the Willey House, which crosses a stream with theunpoetical name of Cow Brook, and followed up this rivulet into thewild forest. An ascent of nearly two miles revealed to them the ob-ject of their search inclosed between the granite walls of a verysteep ravine, whose cliffs, crowned with a dense forest of spru
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