. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. tions in regard to his children, and the disposition of hisproperty. Let us drive now across the river, with the horses heads tow-ards Gorham again, and make our first halt near the house of in Shelburne, under the shadow of Baldcap Mountain, If wehad time to speak of the view from the summit, which requires abouttwo hours climbing, we should need words more rich than wouldcome at our bidding. But how grand and complete is the landscapethat stretches before us as we look up the river seven or eight milesto the base of Madison an
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. tions in regard to his children, and the disposition of hisproperty. Let us drive now across the river, with the horses heads tow-ards Gorham again, and make our first halt near the house of in Shelburne, under the shadow of Baldcap Mountain, If wehad time to speak of the view from the summit, which requires abouttwo hours climbing, we should need words more rich than wouldcome at our bidding. But how grand and complete is the landscapethat stretches before us as we look up the river seven or eight milesto the base of Madison and to the bulk of Washington, whose majes-tic dome rises over two curving walls of rock, that are set beneath itlike wings! Seen in the afternoon light, the Androscoggin and itsmeadows look more lovely than on any portion of the road between 38 278 THE WHITE HILLS. Bethel and Gorham, and more fascinating than any piece of riverscenery it has ever been our fortune to look upon in the mountainregion. The rock and cascade pictures in the forests of Baldcap. well reward the rambles of an hour or two. Boarders for the sum-mer, at moderate price, have been taken at Mr. Gatess, and we donot know of any farm-house where the view from the door offers somany elements of a landscape that can never tire. THE ANDROSCOGGIN VALLEY. 279 THE LEAD-MINE BRIDGE is reached by driving two miles in the direction of Gorham. Themine itself from which the bridge is named is about a mile dis-tant, in a ravine of mica-slate rocks. Although the ore is quiteplentiful, and contains three pounds of silver to the ton, it seems thatit cannot be profitablj wrought, and it is abandoned now. But inthe afternoon of a sunny day, when the mountain summits are notcovered, every ravine on the distant sides of Madison and Washingtonis a quarry of beauty. The whole substance of these mountainsseems then to be literally precious stones. They stand out in thesame shape as when seen from the Gates cottage two miles d
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