History and description of New EnglandNew Hampshire . once a day. No one went without somethino-,— a chair, or door, piece of crockery, or some provisions. Mr. Rose-brook, who was a young giant, carried up, at one time, a door of theusual length, three feet wide and three and one half inches thick teapounds of pork, and one gallon of molasses. The walls were raisedeight feet high, and the roof fastened on by heavy iron bolts, over which 694 HISTORY AXD \ OF XEW ENGLAND. strong cables wen- passed, and attaclied to the solid rock of the niouii-taiii. But two or tlirii hours \v<.)rk
History and description of New EnglandNew Hampshire . once a day. No one went without somethino-,— a chair, or door, piece of crockery, or some provisions. Mr. Rose-brook, who was a young giant, carried up, at one time, a door of theusual length, three feet wide and three and one half inches thick teapounds of pork, and one gallon of molasses. The walls were raisedeight feet high, and the roof fastened on by heavy iron bolts, over which 694 HISTORY AXD \ OF XEW ENGLAND. strong cables wen- passed, and attaclied to the solid rock of the niouii-taiii. But two or tlirii hours \v<.)rk could be pertbnncd eatli dav, onRecount of the severity of the winils and mists at the top, whiih wouldoften incvust the men in ice, and compel them to llee to their tenqjoraryretreat about half-way down the mountain. ]n this way the wholeday was often lost in travelling back and forth, — the clear sunshineabove inviting them up, but the liekl vi op<raiions often being envel-ojKd in stormy clouds before they could reach it. The inside of the. T I nf Mt AV h Dgton house had only curtained apartments. A table was set of sufficientcapacity for thirty or forty persons, a cooking stove at the end. a smallkitchen and a row of beds, each curtained off, completing the arrange-ment. The Tip Top was erected afterwards with a flat roof, andimbedded so far into the rocks that their rortgh, projecting points servedfor ste]3s by which to mount the roof for observation, one or two goodtelescopes generally standing there for that piir|50se. And now the traveller certainly finds a new application of the oftipioted line. ? T is distance lends cnoliantment to the view. NEW HAMPSHIRE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 695 He has made a wearisome, pilgrimage up from the dull world, withits commonplace scenes, to gaze upon them with new eyes, to see inthe vales and hills, woods and waters, new beauties. The eye takes inthe vast panorama for 150 miles around. The other summits pnsrntthemselves around like yeom
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