. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. ^^f^>- colossal armor gleaming up there in the starlight! Now the sunsends mingled light and lengthened shadows over the picturesquelabors of the haymakers, in the broad, green, beautiful meadows thatspread, a mile wide, waving with grass and grain and patches of THE SACO VALLEY. 159 glistening corn, clear to the mountains feet, to the hieroglyphicrocky faces of the curious ledges, that form its outposts in front, andto the winding Saco River, -whose course is marked with gracefullyoverhanging elms and oaks and maples, that also stud
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. ^^f^>- colossal armor gleaming up there in the starlight! Now the sunsends mingled light and lengthened shadows over the picturesquelabors of the haymakers, in the broad, green, beautiful meadows thatspread, a mile wide, waving with grass and grain and patches of THE SACO VALLEY. 159 glistening corn, clear to the mountains feet, to the hieroglyphicrocky faces of the curious ledges, that form its outposts in front, andto the winding Saco River, -whose course is marked with gracefullyoverhanging elms and oaks and maples, that also stud the plain inscattered groups, and shade the brooks that ramble, musically gurg-ling, to the river. A lovelier plain was never spread before a poetsfeet, to woo the Avilling thoughts abroad. A scene of plenty, purity,and peace. On our right, in the north, loom the White Mountains,blue and misty and yet boldly outlined. There is Mount Washington,rearing his broad Jove-like throne amid his great brothers and sup-porters ; these, Avith innumerable lesser m
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