. Here and there in New England and Canada . o miles east of the head of Mascoma, the beautiful CrystalLake (East Pond) glimmers among the guardian hills, with a single lonelyisland breaking its deep clear waters. Four miles down the Mascoma valley are the famous Chiron Springs, apure and aerated alkaline-saline water, and reputed to be rich in healingproperties, especially in connection with rheumatism and dyspepsia. TheJerusalem Spring lies over in Canaan, with its extraordinarily pure water,and views of many a noble mountain wrapped in blue veils of distance. 52 CHAPTER IX. NEWFOUND LAKE. 1
. Here and there in New England and Canada . o miles east of the head of Mascoma, the beautiful CrystalLake (East Pond) glimmers among the guardian hills, with a single lonelyisland breaking its deep clear waters. Four miles down the Mascoma valley are the famous Chiron Springs, apure and aerated alkaline-saline water, and reputed to be rich in healingproperties, especially in connection with rheumatism and dyspepsia. TheJerusalem Spring lies over in Canaan, with its extraordinarily pure water,and views of many a noble mountain wrapped in blue veils of distance. 52 CHAPTER IX. NEWFOUND LAKE. -A View in Bridgewater.—Lacustrine Localities.—AroundTHE Lake.—Peaked Hill. OXE of the most lovely and least known lakes of New England maybe reached by going up the Bristol Branch from Franklin, on theNorthern Railroad, alongside of the swift Pemigewasset River. On the littleplateau over the gorge of the Newfound River stands the bright manufactur-inc^-villnge of Bristol; and five or six miles to the northward the sparkling. waters of Newfound Lake open away among the hills, seven miles long andthree miles wide, and well populated with lake-trout, landlocked salmon,black bass, pickerel, chub, and perch. The kindlv and hospitable farmers of the surrounding hills take manysummer-boarders into their homes; and along the shore, now in low andsandy beaches, and again swelling into rocky promontories, scores of whitetents of peaceful campaigners blink at each other over the wide water. Thelittle-used pastures are occupied by battalions of berry-bushes; and myriadsof sweet northern flowers bloom aU summer long around the peaceful bays. And the fir and the sassafras yield their as the odors of morning land*.Where the eagle floats in the summer noon,^\^^ile his comrade clouds drift silent by. 53 And the waters fill with a mystic tuneThe fane the cliffs have built to the sky. From the eastern shore, in Bridgewater, near the only hotel on the lake,there is an u
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