. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. in the forest, a hundred fifty feet broad, andabout as deep, wliich holds perpetually about forty feet of water. At noon-day hereTis twiliglit, and at sunset blackest night. If tliis was hollowed out for Naiads, they must be of a very sullentemper, Nymphs of the Stygian order, that love some uncouth cell,Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wingsAnd the night raven sings. One of the gi*andest cascades of the mountain region has beendiscovered on Mooseliillock River, the child of a hill unnamed as yet,wrhich is climbed by a path ab
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. in the forest, a hundred fifty feet broad, andabout as deep, wliich holds perpetually about forty feet of water. At noon-day hereTis twiliglit, and at sunset blackest night. If tliis was hollowed out for Naiads, they must be of a very sullentemper, Nymphs of the Stygian order, that love some uncouth cell,Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wingsAnd the night raven sings. One of the gi*andest cascades of the mountain region has beendiscovered on Mooseliillock River, the child of a hill unnamed as yet,wrhich is climbed by a path about two miles below the hotel. It is inBuch a hurry to get away from home, that it goes on the jump, almostall the way, to join the Pemigewasset, making two leaps of eightyfeet each, one immediately after the other, which, as we climbtowards them, gleam as one splendid line of light through the tree; 19 126 THE WHITE HILLS. and shrubbery that fringe the rocky cleft. Is it not possible to givethem a more appropriate name than Georgiana Falls ? The view. from the summit of the ridge that nurtures this adventurous stream,has been pronounced by the native philosopher, whom many of our THE PEMIGEVVASSET VALLEY. 127 readers have heard discouise at the Pool about geology and the fateof Captain Sjmmes, the stalwartest prospect in all Franconi. But the view from the Flume House itself is a perpetual refresh-ment, and one needs not seek by hard climbing or Avandering forany increased temptation to contentment. No scenes can be morestrongly contrasted in spirit and mfluence than those around the twohotels, five miles apart. From the Flume House the general view ischeerful and soothing. There is no place among the mountains Avherethe fever can be taken more gently and cunningly out of a Avorriedor buidened brain. So soft and delicate are the general features ofthe outlook over the widening Pemigewasset valley! So rich thegradation of the lights over the miles of gently sloping forest thats
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