. Stowe notes, letters and verses . tely clear. The transitions in color on the even surface of thesnow being sharper, more sudden, than such variationsin summer, or at any other time of year, give the impres-sion of an unusual amount of color in a winter landscape;the distance is more complex than at other thrown from the belts of purple woodland area clear light blue; where the wind has packed the snowto form a crust, the surface presents a purple or pinkishshade; the drifting surface snow is a yellow-white nearat hand, in the distance threading the blue or purplefields with
. Stowe notes, letters and verses . tely clear. The transitions in color on the even surface of thesnow being sharper, more sudden, than such variationsin summer, or at any other time of year, give the impres-sion of an unusual amount of color in a winter landscape;the distance is more complex than at other thrown from the belts of purple woodland area clear light blue; where the wind has packed the snowto form a crust, the surface presents a purple or pinkishshade; the drifting surface snow is a yellow-white nearat hand, in the distance threading the blue or purplefields with lines of golden pink. DECEMBER 81 How colorless are these winter skies! It is only bylooking at the very apex of the sky that you are fullyconvinced of its blueness. The mountains bathe in acold glory. It falls upon them breathlessly cold. Theyare frozen, as completely tranced in it as the sapless trees. The horizon sparkles in a flood of sunshine, cold,cold as the streamers of the northern lights. EXTRACTS FROM NOTE-BOOKS1887-1888. THE SOUTH Thomasville, Georgia, March. The trains loiter in as leisurely a fashion as in Ver-mont. Since from Wilmington, North Carolina, thecountry has undergone no change in general charac-teristics—the inevitable pine, the clearing half cleared,with blackened stumps protruding at short intervals; thewretched negro hovels, in so many cases no better thanthe Irish shanties of the vacant upper part of New York,often in appearance of as evil a construction as the out-buildings, which for the most part seem to consist of achicken-house, etc.; the glassless windows, wooden shut-ters being the substitute; the mud chimneys; the en-closure of rail fences. Peach trees, with their softrose-colored blossoms, alone give any touch of comfortto the dismal scenery. The atmosphere was hazy with the continual burningfor clearings, which goes on day and night. In manyplaces, where the pertinacity with which the pines haveheld their ground has triumphed over the f
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