. Here and there in New England and Canada . 34 and five miles from Centre Harbor. Close by, iiemmed in by deep woodsand silvery beaches, and gemmed by many a pretty islet, is Lake Waukawan,whose cold depths are haunted by myriads of black bass. In the other direction, small steamboats run to Lake Village, a prosper-ous factory-town, almost environed by the fertile farms of Gilford. Itextends along the shores of Lake Paugus (the ancient Long Bay), a four-mile expansion of the Winnipesaukee River. Seven miles distant, a pathleaves the Alton road, and runs up over the steep pastures, for a mile
. Here and there in New England and Canada . 34 and five miles from Centre Harbor. Close by, iiemmed in by deep woodsand silvery beaches, and gemmed by many a pretty islet, is Lake Waukawan,whose cold depths are haunted by myriads of black bass. In the other direction, small steamboats run to Lake Village, a prosper-ous factory-town, almost environed by the fertile farms of Gilford. Itextends along the shores of Lake Paugus (the ancient Long Bay), a four-mile expansion of the Winnipesaukee River. Seven miles distant, a pathleaves the Alton road, and runs up over the steep pastures, for a mile anda half, to the summit of Mount Belknap, whence is outspread the noblestview in the Lake Country, surpassing even that from Red Hill. It includesall the lake and its confines, and also the magnificent Franconia andPresidential ranges, and a wide reach of the ocean from Wells to 35 CHAPTER III. LAKE V/INNISQUAM. Venetian Processions. — Winter-Fishing. — L.\conia. Tliere is power to blessIn hillside loneliness, In tarns and dreary places;A virtue in the brook,A freshness in the look Of mountains joyless faces. LAKE WINNISQUAM [winni, beautiful, and squam, water) isone of the prettiest of the great ponds in this fair region, and maybe explored by the small steamboats running from Laconia, or by house-boats towed from point to point. It is fully nine miles long, with anextreme breadth of two miles ; and in the northerly part several tiny isletsrise above the limpid waves. The shores are bold and well wooded, andfairly frame this gem of the hills. The lake is a rare bit of landscapebeauty, and reflects from its shining surface the tender colors of the over-arching sky, and the graceful outlines of the rural shores. Sometimes thereare illuminations of Winnisquam by fireworks, when the lower shores breakinto vivid pyrotechnic lights, and a procession of all man
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