. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. s, it passes among thetrees of a dead forest, the life-less relics of the great confla-gration of 1S55. Near the point where thepath turns sharply to the left,half way to the summit, thereis a mineral spring. Theledges on the north and westsides of the mountain/ havebeen rounded and polished be-long glacial action. , The up-per slopes are a compact massof rock, crossed by broad veinsof white quartz, which glis-ten like snow in the has had little action up-on the summits. Near the summit of Cardi-gan Do
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. s, it passes among thetrees of a dead forest, the life-less relics of the great confla-gration of 1S55. Near the point where thepath turns sharply to the left,half way to the summit, thereis a mineral spring. Theledges on the north and westsides of the mountain/ havebeen rounded and polished be-long glacial action. , The up-per slopes are a compact massof rock, crossed by broad veinsof white quartz, which glis-ten like snow in the has had little action up-on the summits. Near the summit of Cardi-gan Dome, on the east, andin the lee of a jutting crag,may be seen the charred tracesof many a camp-fire, indicatingthe spot where parties havecamped over night to see thesun rise. Near this point is a bareprecipice more than one thousandfeet deep. Many of the ledges belowthe summit are carpeted with moss, said to have been found several timessince, but the genii of the woods nowguard their secret so well that no onecan find it at the present time. The summit of Cardigan Dome is. Above Thoreau Basins. Stand-we can less than an acre in extent,ing on this granite peak,imagine how the primeval oceanwashed against the shore line of this sprinkled late in the summer with island long before the foot of man the small red berries of the mountain ever trod upon our cooling earth, cranberry, and the damper and more The view from the top includes sheltered ravines between the peak countless mountains and hills, nar- are overgrown with blueberry bushes, row glens and valleys, and many There is a tradition that a hunter, beautiful lakes in this Switzerland of having lost his way, discovered an America. Outcropping vein of graphite Or Bathed in the tendered purple of distance, black-lead in a ledge near South Tinted and shadowed by pencils of air. Peak, and that he removed a piece It is claimed that, in the clearest with his hunting knife. This vein is weather, one can see as far as 32 TWO NEW HAM
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