What to see in America . Lake Sunapee saukee. These names were bestowed by the Indians. The^latter means The Smiles of the Great Spirit. Winnepe- saukee is a very ir- regular lake with abreadth of from oneto twelve miles and alength of twenty, andwith three hundredand sixty islands. The beaches ofthe states shortshore line attractmany visitors, andso do the famous Isles of Shoals which Lowell describes as: A heap of bare and splintery crags,Tumbled about by lightning and frost,With rifts and chasms, and storm-bleached jags,That wait and growl for a ship to be lost. These isles areabout threele
What to see in America . Lake Sunapee saukee. These names were bestowed by the Indians. The^latter means The Smiles of the Great Spirit. Winnepe- saukee is a very ir- regular lake with abreadth of from oneto twelve miles and alength of twenty, andwith three hundredand sixty islands. The beaches ofthe states shortshore line attractmany visitors, andso do the famous Isles of Shoals which Lowell describes as: A heap of bare and splintery crags,Tumbled about by lightning and frost,With rifts and chasms, and storm-bleached jags,That wait and growl for a ship to be lost. These isles areabout threeleagues off largest ofthe nine islandsis a mile inlength and halfa mile one of themenough groundfree from bowl-ders is found fora few acres ofmowing, and onanother for some garden plots. They are wholly Mt. Chocorua and Bear Camp River 20 What to See in America and support nothing of larger growth than huckleberry andbayberry bushes, woodbines, and wild roses. Formerlyswine were numerous on Appledore, which was then knownas Hog Island, and there was a tavern on Smutty considerable number of people made the Isles theirhomes, and engaged in trade, commerce, and fishing; butof late years the only permanent family has been that ofthe lighthouse keeper. One of the most charming and unusual of New Hampshiretowns is Cornish on the bank of the Connecticut. It is a place of wonderful estates thathave been developed by a colonyof artists, authors, and other pro-fessional men. An early comerwas Augustus St. Gaudens, Amer-icas greatest sculptor. Thebeautiful homes are widely scat-tered about the neighborhood ofBlow-me-down Brook in a regionof steep hills and deep valleys,with the giant form of Mt. As-cut ney looming skyward not faraway to the south. Portsmouth, formerly the larg-est place
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