. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. e Saco and North Conway, let it remind usof Longfellows verses :— God sent his messenger the rain,And said unto the mountain brook, Rise up and from thy caverns lookAnd leap, with naked, snow-white feet,From tlie cool hills into the heatOf the broad, arid plain. God sent his messenger of faith,And whispered in tiie maidens heart, Rise up and look from where thou artAnd scatter with unselfish handsThy freshness on the barren sandsAnd solitudes of Death. The surroundings of THE GLEN ELLIS FALL are more grand than those of the cascade just
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. e Saco and North Conway, let it remind usof Longfellows verses :— God sent his messenger the rain,And said unto the mountain brook, Rise up and from thy caverns lookAnd leap, with naked, snow-white feet,From tlie cool hills into the heatOf the broad, arid plain. God sent his messenger of faith,And whispered in tiie maidens heart, Rise up and look from where thou artAnd scatter with unselfish handsThy freshness on the barren sandsAnd solitudes of Death. The surroundings of THE GLEN ELLIS FALL are more grand than those of the cascade just spoken of. In fact, ifwe wished to take a person into a scene that would seem to be the THE ANDROSCOGGIN VALLEY. lib very heart of mountain wildness, without wishing to make him cUmbinto any of the ravines, we should invite him to visit this fall of theEllis River. The best view of the fall is obtained by leaning againsta tree that overhangs a sheer precipice, and looking down upon theslide and foam of the narrow and concentrated cataract to where it. splashes into the dark green pool, a hundred feet below. And thenas we look off from this point above the fall, we see the steep side ofMount Carter crowded to the ridge with the forest. It is not thesense of age, but of grim, almost fierce wildness, that is breathedfrom the scenery, amid which this cataract takes a leap of eighty 316 THE WHITE HlLLb. feet to carry its contribution to the Saco. But we must be carefulhow we talk of the leap of the river, or we shall have Mr. Ruskiuafter us. He tells us that artists seldom convey the characteristicof a powerful stream that descends a long distance through a narrowchannel, where it has a chance to expand as it falls. The springinglines of parabolic descent are apt to be the controlling feature of thepicture. The stream is made to look active all the way, not supine. Now water will leap a little way, it will leap down a weir or over astone, but it tumbles over a high fall like this;
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