. Here and there in New England and Canada . t in the life of culturedNew England,— the first plea of Daniel Webster, and the death of NathanielHawthorne. The former occurred in the old Grafton-County court-house,which is now used as a public library, where several thousand volumes arekept for the use of the villagers. In May, 1864, Hawthorne retired to restin Room No. 9, at the Pemigewasset House; and at early morning his trav-elling companion, Franklin Pierce, entered the chamber, only tofind the great romancer lying upon his side, placid, silent, and cold, havingpassed painles
. Here and there in New England and Canada . t in the life of culturedNew England,— the first plea of Daniel Webster, and the death of NathanielHawthorne. The former occurred in the old Grafton-County court-house,which is now used as a public library, where several thousand volumes arekept for the use of the villagers. In May, 1864, Hawthorne retired to restin Room No. 9, at the Pemigewasset House; and at early morning his trav-elling companion, Franklin Pierce, entered the chamber, only tofind the great romancer lying upon his side, placid, silent, and cold, havingpassed painlessly from his slumber of the night into that longer rest, ofwhose duration none can tell. go By all means make the ascent of old North Hill, the Mount Prospect ofmodern days, where you can drive your carriage to the airy summit, andoverlook the fair Lake Country, with its mosaic of deep green and celestialblue, and the sharp Franconia peaks, and far-away Mount Washington,Whiteface and Chocorua, Kearsarge and Wachusctt, and hundreds of less. LIVERMORE FALLS. familiar mountains, villages, lakes, and streams. And you may drive up tothe Livermore Falls, or to Asquam Lake, or down into woodsy Bridgewater,or into the Camptons, or around Plymouth Mountain, or over to NewfoundLake, or to a score of other points of beauty and interest. And, withal, thisgem of a highland village is within three or four hours of Boston, by theBoston & Lowell line. 8i CHAPTER XVIII. THE PEMIGEWASSET VALLEY. An Aboriginal Jaw-Breaker. — Campton Village.— Mad RiversSong.— West Campton.—Thornton.—\—The Edge okTHE Wilderness.—Waterville. THLS lovely valley bears one of the longest of our inherited Indiannames, Pe/iaqici, which means crooked; waat/^^^, mountain;cooash, pine; and auke, place. As the long glen winds in andout among the pine-clad hills, the virtue of this sesquipedalian titlebecomes apparent. The Pemigewasset River descends fifteen hundred feetin its thirty-mile course fr
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