. East of the White Hills. ^ hadwound their coils fairly around them, and were crumblingthem at leisure. The lichens upon them look bleachedand feeble. These protruding portions of its anatomy 1 Starr Kiiii;.. Crystal Cascade. I AST- O - hj-® «.TlO^ - > SUMMIT MT. WASHINGTON TO THE GLEN. 89 indicate that Mount Washington has passed the merid-ian of his years. But the waterfall gives the impressionof graceful and perpetual 3^outh. Down it comes,leaping, sliding, tripping, widening its pure tide, andthen gathering its thin sheet to gush through a narrow-ing pass in the rocks,—all the way thus
. East of the White Hills. ^ hadwound their coils fairly around them, and were crumblingthem at leisure. The lichens upon them look bleachedand feeble. These protruding portions of its anatomy 1 Starr Kiiii;.. Crystal Cascade. I AST- O - hj-® «.TlO^ - > SUMMIT MT. WASHINGTON TO THE GLEN. 89 indicate that Mount Washington has passed the merid-ian of his years. But the waterfall gives the impressionof graceful and perpetual 3^outh. Down it comes,leaping, sliding, tripping, widening its pure tide, andthen gathering its thin sheet to gush through a narrow-ing pass in the rocks,—all the way thus, from underthe sheer walls of Tuckermans Ravine, some milesabove, till it reaches the curve opposite the point wherewe stand, and winding around it, sweeps down thebending stairway, shattering its substance into exquisitecrystal, but sending off enough water to the right sideof its path to slip and trickle over the lovely, darkgreen mosses that cling to the gray and purple how many thousand years has it enlivened themountainside thus with its flashes and its dance?Perhaps long enough to have fulfilled one of the greatPlatonic years, —long enough for the very water whichin one summer we
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