. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. on one side, a grassy or tangled shore in front, and arocky cape curving in from the other side, compose an effective fore-ground to a quiet bay with finely varied borders, and the double-peaked Belknap in the distance. Or what more charming than toBail slowly along and see the numerous islands and irregular shoreschange their positions and weave their singular combinations ? Nowthey range themselves on either hand, and hem a vista that ex-tends to the blue base of Copple Crown. Now an island slides itsgray or purple form across, and, li
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. on one side, a grassy or tangled shore in front, and arocky cape curving in from the other side, compose an effective fore-ground to a quiet bay with finely varied borders, and the double-peaked Belknap in the distance. Or what more charming than toBail slowly along and see the numerous islands and irregular shoreschange their positions and weave their singular combinations ? Nowthey range themselves on either hand, and hem a vista that ex-tends to the blue base of Copple Crown. Now an island slides itsgray or purple form across, and, like a rood-screen, divides the longwatery aisle into nave and choir, followed by another and another,till the perspective is confused and the vista disappears. Then inthe distance, islands and shores will marshal themselves in longstraight fines, fronting you as regular as the phalanxes of an army;and if the sun is low present the embattled effect the more forcibly,with their vertically shadowed sides and brightly lighted tops. Or LAKE WINNIPISEOGEE. 67. lo s^vlltlJ over loMer ranges, and soon 68 THE WHITE HILLS. the whole mountain sweeps into view, startling you with its ghostlike pallor, and haggard crest. On a morning when the fog is clear-ing, is the time to be tempted towards the middle of the lake, to seethe islands, whose green looks more exquisite then than in any otheratmosphere, stretch away in perspectives dreamy and illusive. Twoor three miles of distance seem five times as long, when measuredthrough such genial, moist, and silvery air. And now, if we will bendwestward, between curving shores that will grant us ample passage,we shall be glad to find ourselves in the encircled bay near Weirs,and can have leisure to enjoy in silence the gentle slopes of the Bel-knaps, and the succession of mounds that heave away from them tothe southeast, while the fog is rolling up into clouds, and the sunshineslipping down a broad cultivated field on one of the swelling cones,burnish
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