. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. ^ drink in their beauty. No won-der that the Indians were so strongly attached to this fought so desperately before yielding the possession of it to thewhite intruders. The lower hills tempted them with abundance ofgame, and the calm water supplied them with unfailmg stores offish ; while Winnipiseogee was but six miles distant one way, andthe Pemigewasset equally near on the west. And possibly the sur-passing lovelmess of the landscape served as a golden thread in thecord that bound them to this peaceful dell in the cen
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. ^ drink in their beauty. No won-der that the Indians were so strongly attached to this fought so desperately before yielding the possession of it to thewhite intruders. The lower hills tempted them with abundance ofgame, and the calm water supplied them with unfailmg stores offish ; while Winnipiseogee was but six miles distant one way, andthe Pemigewasset equally near on the west. And possibly the sur-passing lovelmess of the landscape served as a golden thread in thecord that bound them to this peaceful dell in the centre of New Eng-land. The larger Squam Lake, not a fourth part so large as Winni 84 THE WHITE HILLS. piseogee, is doubtless the most beautiful of all the small sheets ofwater in New England ; and it has been pronounced by one gen-tleman, no less careful in his words than cultivated in his taste,more charmingly embosomed in the landscape than any lake of ec[ualBize he had ever seen in Europe or TJie whole Sandwich range is in view behind the lower hills thaiguard the lake. The most striking picture is gained about five milesfrom Centre Harbor, from the top of a hill on the road, where, as welook over the broadest portion of the lake, and across several parallelpars of narrow islands, the whole form of gallant Chocorua, with his THE PEMIGEWASSET VALLEY. 85 eteel-hooded head, fills the background to the north-ward, to^vering,without any intervening obstruction, twelve or fifteen miles away. Wegive an illustration of this view. But we can call attention in wordsonly to a dark and massive mountain that stands also in the landscape, wearing a hue as of beaten metals and adamant. From what-ever point it is observed near Centre Harbor, it is distinguished byits darker color from the main Sandwich range, back of which itlooms. And from Squam Lake it shows scattered points, and short,jagged lines of glittering lights, (probably bare points of quartz,)which make its darkness spar
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