. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. the veryborders of Milan, we might not find in the red spire of the villagechurch that would greet us, the artistic satisfaction which one wouldanticipate from the first glimpse of the Buomo, which we associatewith the capital of Lombardy. (A wicked friend of ours who tookthe drive with us, when the village first saluted our eyes remarked,that this Milan seemed to be set in the plain of Lumber-dy.) But we will not drive so far as the village. We will follow theroad about two miles above Berlin Falls, cross the large, coveredbridge of the
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. the veryborders of Milan, we might not find in the red spire of the villagechurch that would greet us, the artistic satisfaction which one wouldanticipate from the first glimpse of the Buomo, which we associatewith the capital of Lombardy. (A wicked friend of ours who tookthe drive with us, when the village first saluted our eyes remarked,that this Milan seemed to be set in the plain of Lumber-dy.) But we will not drive so far as the village. We will follow theroad about two miles above Berlin Falls, cross the large, coveredbridge of the Androscoggin, and drive about two miles above that onthe eastern bank of the river. Then we will turn the horses headsagain towards Gorham. Now look down the river towards the moun- 2G8 THE WHITE HILLS. tains ! Do we see the two peaks that were so fascinating at theFalls below ? They have received an addition to their are three now. Mount Washington has lifted his head intosight behind Madison, and has pushed out the long outline of the. ridge that climbs from the Pinkham forest, and by all the stairwaysof his plateaus, to his cold and rugged crown. What a majestictrio ! What breadth and mass, and yet what nervous contours !The mountains are arranged in half circle, so that we see each sum-mit perfectly defined, and have the outline of each on its character- THE ANDROSCOGGIN VALLEY. 269 istic side lying sharp against the sky,—Adams as it is braced fromthe north, Madison from the southeast, Washington from the hide the other summits of the range completely. And fromour position we look down the long avenue of hills that guard theAndroscoggin, and over the wilderness from which they spring, andsee them from a height very favorable for revealing their elevation,and through a sufficient depth of air to give them both distinctnessand bloom. Is it not something to mourn over, that the spectacle of thisbivouac of hills should have been so seldom seen by tou
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