. Here and there in New England and Canada . he narrow Wolfeborough Bay,beyond whose shining levels the peaks of the Belknap ;range rise with grand effect. The facilities for boat- :;ing, fishing, and riding are good; and here also the vacation-idler may say, with Walt Whitman: — I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass. A mile or so back of the village is the charming Lake ) / W^entworth, four miles long, and endowed with several islands, and abund-ant store of fish. On its eastern shore stood Wentworth House, the greatfeudal mansion of John W
. Here and there in New England and Canada . he narrow Wolfeborough Bay,beyond whose shining levels the peaks of the Belknap ;range rise with grand effect. The facilities for boat- :;ing, fishing, and riding are good; and here also the vacation-idler may say, with Walt Whitman: — I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass. A mile or so back of the village is the charming Lake ) / W^entworth, four miles long, and endowed with several islands, and abund-ant store of fish. On its eastern shore stood Wentworth House, the greatfeudal mansion of John Wentworth, the last royal governor of New Hamp-shire, who fled from this fair domain to the British fleet at Portsmouth,bearing Lady Wentworth with him. The house was attacked by the patriotsin 1775, and burned to the ground in 1820. Six or seven miles from Wolfeborough is Copple Crown, whose summit,reached by a mile-long path over the pastures and through the woods,commands a birds-eve view of Winnipesaukee and its mountain-walls, with 23. 24 Chocorua, Mount Washington, Kearsarge, the Isles of Shoals, Wachusett,and Monadnock. The high grassy hill called Tumble-Down Dick, about amile distant, gives another interesting prospect. Running out from Wolfeborough Bay, after passing the landmark ofParkers Island, the steamer lays its course between Tuftonborough Neck,on the right, and Rattlesnake Island, on the left, high and bold, coveringone hundred and fifty acres with its luxuriant forest, and containing all therattlesnakes in the Lake Country. Farther on, the lonely and unvisited
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