. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. a friend once used,—an artist in expressionas in feeling, and not given under strong stimulant to superlatives,—as he looked, for the first time, from the- ledge upon the square milesof undulating wilderness, See the tumultuous bombast of the land-scape ! Yet the glory of the view is, after all, the four highestcompanion mountains of the range. Clay, Jefferson, Adams, Madison,that show themselves in a bending fine beyond the tremendous gorgeat the right of the path, absurdly called the Gulf of Mexico, andare visible from their roots to t
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. a friend once used,—an artist in expressionas in feeling, and not given under strong stimulant to superlatives,—as he looked, for the first time, from the- ledge upon the square milesof undulating wilderness, See the tumultuous bombast of the land-scape ! Yet the glory of the view is, after all, the four highestcompanion mountains of the range. Clay, Jefferson, Adams, Madison,that show themselves in a bending fine beyond the tremendous gorgeat the right of the path, absurdly called the Gulf of Mexico, andare visible from their roots to their summits. These movmtains arenot seen on the ascent from the Notch, being hidden by the dome ofMount Washington itself. On the Glen path these grand form^ ?624: THE AVHITE HILLS. tower so near us that it seems at first as though a strong arm mightthrow a stone across the Gulf and hit them. There should be a rest-bg-place near the edge of the ravine, where parties could dismountand study these forms at leisure. Except bv climbing to the ridge.
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