. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . pitmans arch — NO. CONWAY. 218 that the shadows are more delicately penciled,— that the curves ofthe brooks are more seductive thau elsewhere? Wliy do the nightsseem more tender and less solemn? What has touched the ledgyrocks with a grace that softens the impression of sublimity andage? What has made the twilight parks of pine dim with a pensive,rather than a melancholy, dusk? .... The atmosphere and the out-lines of the hills seem to lull rather than
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . pitmans arch — NO. CONWAY. 218 that the shadows are more delicately penciled,— that the curves ofthe brooks are more seductive thau elsewhere? Wliy do the nightsseem more tender and less solemn? What has touched the ledgyrocks with a grace that softens the impression of sublimity andage? What has made the twilight parks of pine dim with a pensive,rather than a melancholy, dusk? .... The atmosphere and the out-lines of the hills seem to lull rather than stimulate. There are nocrags, no pinnacles, no ramparts of rock, no mountain frown orsavageness brought into contrast, at any point, with the general serenebeaut J. Kearsarge is a rough and scraggy mountain, when you attemptto climb it, but its lines ripple off softly to the plain. Mt. Wash-ington does not seem so much to stand up, as to lie out at ease across. Tin; ;s — no. con way. the north. The leonine grandeur is there, but it is the lion not erectbut couchant, a little sleepy, stretching out his paws and enjoying thesun. And tired Chocorua appears as if looking wistfully down into A landIn which it eeemed always afternoon. Why, that, said my wife, is pure rhapsody. It may be, but it is the honest impression which familiarity withthis spot must make, more or less distinct!}, on every sensitive could support it by an immense quantity of testimony from all sortsand conditions of men, and women too, had I the time to bring ittogether. 219 Our first excursion was the regulation drive ** around the Ledges Inone of the trim black buckboards that go kiting over Conways hillsfrom May to October. There are single buggies and landaus, phae-tons and waggonettes, carryals and gigs, Concord coaches and moun-tain wagons; but the buckboard has the most fresh air, exercise, andgayety to the mile in it,— and we choose it every time. The
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