. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . heights are far away, however, and the foot-hills near by aremostly cleared, yet dotted with copses and lines of trees that lenda somewhat cultivated appearance to the surroundings, pleasantly re-lieving the solid woodland that elsewhere overspreads the hills withan unbroken pall. Here are broad meadows, many farms, and a neatlittle hamlet of hotels of handsome modern architecture and everyappearance of comfort, among which, quaint old farmhouses and an
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . heights are far away, however, and the foot-hills near by aremostly cleared, yet dotted with copses and lines of trees that lenda somewhat cultivated appearance to the surroundings, pleasantly re-lieving the solid woodland that elsewhere overspreads the hills withan unbroken pall. Here are broad meadows, many farms, and a neatlittle hamlet of hotels of handsome modern architecture and everyappearance of comfort, among which, quaint old farmhouses and anelm-shaded meeting-house do not seem out of harmony. There is room to breathe here, Prue declared, and you can seethe mountains without being right against them, or half alarmed lestthey should slide down upon you some night. I wonder how she will feel at the Profile House! 164 CHAPTER XVII. ©ouNT Washington. There, as thou slaudest,The haunts of men below thee, and aroundThe mountain summits, thy expanding heartShall feel a kindred with that loftier worldTo which thou art translated, and partakeThe enlargement of thy vision.— -ITII a lurch of the wagon, a rush of four eagerhorses, and a chorus of good-byes, we were oflfor the drive over the carriage-road from theGlen House to the summit of Mount the sunrise a few wreaths of mist, wovenamong tlie tree-tops, had risen slowly half-wayup the naked slioulders of the range, only to beshorn of their wings and disappear, like theIcarian birds that typified them in the classicfa))le; and ragged fragments of clouds, hidingfrom both wind and sunshine, still lurked about the lieads of theravines; but the summits tliemselves, all five of them, toweredsliarp and clear into a marvellously blue sky, and had a copperyglow under the fierce sunlight which was reflected from a thousandmillion mica-points and polished edges in their broken rocks. It is aneedless exaggeration to speak of these mountains glittering or spa
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