The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . hittier loved to watch the Sunset on the Beareamp. Tallerthan Mt. Whittier and rounded Redhill, more abrupt and craggy thanany other peak in sight, it is cov-ered and crowned with a whimsicalchangeability which mountain natureinexplicably assumes. It can be seenfrom Ordination rock, that cherishedold stone-pulpit as firm and enduringas the church that was founded on its flat height over one hundred yearsago. From Ossipee and the plainsbelow Chocoruas vast tooth seems tostand out all alone. Its aggressivecone drinks of
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . hittier loved to watch the Sunset on the Beareamp. Tallerthan Mt. Whittier and rounded Redhill, more abrupt and craggy thanany other peak in sight, it is cov-ered and crowned with a whimsicalchangeability which mountain natureinexplicably assumes. It can be seenfrom Ordination rock, that cherishedold stone-pulpit as firm and enduringas the church that was founded on its flat height over one hundred yearsago. From Ossipee and the plainsbelow Chocoruas vast tooth seems tostand out all alone. Its aggressivecone drinks of the clouds. From themirror-like, wind-caressed lakelet atits foot the rocks show like theflaunted crest of an eagle over thenearer hill-tops. As seen from Al-bany and the Conway woods on theeast it appears to be a huge rolling-comber of a raging sea, chargingtoward the north and its turbulenthills. To Chocorua alone, of all the WhiteHills, is it given to have an authenticlegend. The mountain is grim andgrand and stolid like the character ITS IN THE CHOCORUA COUNTRY St Lk. I -,. ^*£ OrdinaJion Rock. that its Indian name suggests. Seenfrom any point its individuality standsout as prominent as its ragged rocksand cliffs. The country around Chocorua isscarcely less interesting than themountain itself. There are othermountains too, higher, darker, moremassive. But Chocorua, as the east-ern summit of the Sandwich range,commands the first view. It is a cen-tering point for the radiation of moun-tain breezes. Twenty miles to theeast in Fryeburg, is the scene of thefight of Captain Lovewell, so well keptin mind by legend and ballad. Be-yond to the north the tops „»*.„ tjr ^^of the hills roll up thickand enormous. From itssummit one can see fardown the Saco valley. At )?the south is the land ofthe Ossipees, the site ofthe old Indian burying-place, Ossipee mound;also Ossipee lake, theWakefields, Winnipiseo-gee, and the broad, lowOssipee hills. At the footof its slopes is the town *
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