. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . - and many a familiar peak and notch,— the wavy lines offar-receding hills. Then came the knightly vigor and mailed strength of Chocorua,towering right beside us for flnal admiration; the mirror-plates ofOssipee and Silver lakes; and the pretty villages scattered in thevalleys that seem so green and spacious to us after the narrow androcky defiles ; the clustered peaks of Ossipee, the lone hill in Effingham,the symmetrical cone of Copple Crown,— and so
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . - and many a familiar peak and notch,— the wavy lines offar-receding hills. Then came the knightly vigor and mailed strength of Chocorua,towering right beside us for flnal admiration; the mirror-plates ofOssipee and Silver lakes; and the pretty villages scattered in thevalleys that seem so green and spacious to us after the narrow androcky defiles ; the clustered peaks of Ossipee, the lone hill in Effingham,the symmetrical cone of Copple Crown,— and so good-by to tlieWhite Hills! 1 231 CHAPTER XXIII. iOMEWARp BY THE MORJH ShORE. The sea is calling, calling, Along the hallow shore. I know each nook in the rocky strand, And the crimson weeds on the golden sand. And the worn old cliff where the sea-pinks cling, And the winding caves where the echoes ring.— ^JpOW a new interest lay ahead,— glimpses of oldcolonial seaports and coast scenery, and reminis-cences of that Pilgrim history m which everyAmerican must feel the keenest interest; for wewere going homeward along the Eastern Division,or coast line of railroad, extending from Ports-mouth to Boston. It is perfectly natural, remarks Baily, thatall these places along the northern shore of Mas-sachusetts should become, as they are doing, the haunt of a constantlyincreasing throng of pilgrims. Of course it is. There is scarcely a headland, a reef, an island, ahill, and certainly not one of the older towns, on the coast betweenBoston and Portland, which is not linked with some noteworthy incidentin our history, or about which poetry has not thrown some of its ownpeculiar charm. There is not a town on this seaboard but was the homeof ancestors for a time of all who are of New England descent; not anold graveyard but we find in it stones marking their last , Prue assents;
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