. The New England magazine . still, what must it have been in the seven-teenth century? Whittier evidently knewand admired the passage I have quoted,when he wrote, in the first part of the Bridal of Pennacook : * * * And atopOf old Agioochook had seen the mountainsPiled to the northward, shagged with wood, and thickAs meadow mole-hills * * * Brief historical narratives of earlyexplorations of the Presidential rangewere given by Winthrop in his Journal,1642, and by Dr. Jeremy Belknapin his manuscript Tour to the WhiteMountains, 1784. Dr. Belknap was oneof a party which climbed Mount Wash-ington
. The New England magazine . still, what must it have been in the seven-teenth century? Whittier evidently knewand admired the passage I have quoted,when he wrote, in the first part of the Bridal of Pennacook : * * * And atopOf old Agioochook had seen the mountainsPiled to the northward, shagged with wood, and thickAs meadow mole-hills * * * Brief historical narratives of earlyexplorations of the Presidential rangewere given by Winthrop in his Journal,1642, and by Dr. Jeremy Belknapin his manuscript Tour to the WhiteMountains, 1784. Dr. Belknap was oneof a party which climbed Mount Wash-ington, probably by the way of Tucker-mans Ravine, and he makes mention of 720 THE LITERATURE OF THE WHITE the same ])lain and sugar loaf alludedto by Josselyn. The plain is sup-posed to be Bigelows Lawn. The datain \\lnthrops journal are derived fromhearsay, and are remarkable mainly for theamusing topographical notions set forthby the explorers. The first appreciative and extendeddescriptions of the scenery of the regionwere those published in 1821 by Presi-dent Timothy Dwight of Yale visited the White Mountains in 1797,again in 1803, and yet again in 1813, mak-ing long tours on horseback and takingnotes of all he observed on;hisway. Hisbook, Travels in New England andNew York, was in four volumes, and waswritten in the form of letters to an Eng-lish friend. It is a highly interesting andhistorically valuable work. All that hesaw and heard is recorded, as he says,■ with a good degree of exactness, aswell as with sincerity. He may be saidto be one of the discoverers of the rarebeauties of the lakes, particularly of LakeWinnipesaukee ; and his descriptions ofthe White Mountain
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