. Here and there in New England and Canada . n. Still broader is the view from Catamount Hill, a mile out of the village,or from Powder-House Hill, on the other side. And if one wants a capitalmountain-trip, with plenty of hard climbing and amply rewarding views, therocky Benton Range may be attacked from Haverhill, and from Black Moun-tains splendid crest of white rocks he may look out on Moosilauke andLafayette, and enjoy a birds-eye view of the Arcadian valley. On the Vermont side of the great Connecticut Valley, opposite Haverhill,a plateau makes out from Mount Pulaski, upbearing the lovel
. Here and there in New England and Canada . n. Still broader is the view from Catamount Hill, a mile out of the village,or from Powder-House Hill, on the other side. And if one wants a capitalmountain-trip, with plenty of hard climbing and amply rewarding views, therocky Benton Range may be attacked from Haverhill, and from Black Moun-tains splendid crest of white rocks he may look out on Moosilauke andLafayette, and enjoy a birds-eye view of the Arcadian valley. On the Vermont side of the great Connecticut Valley, opposite Haverhill,a plateau makes out from Mount Pulaski, upbearing the lovely and tranquilvillage of Newbury, with its churches and academy and elm-shadowed com-mon, and many legends of the ancient days, when the beginnings of NewEngland were in progress. There can hardly be a fairer prospect in all theseStates (or in the world beside) than that given from the little rocky hill ofMontebello, on the edge of the hamlet; and Picturesque America hasdone well to praise its exquisite beauty. The foreground is occupied by. 90 the great Ox-Bow intervales, covering four iiundred and fifty acres with theirrich farm-hmds, golden grain and deep-green meadow-grass, and nearly en-circled by the broad silvery curves of the Connecticut, placid and stately,and flashing in the warm sunlight. Beyond this foreground of Paradise-likebeauty, the alder-bushes along the stream give place to dark woods andsteep upland pastures; and over these rise the fine peaks of the BentonRange, Black and Sugar Loaf and Owls Head, ten miles long, and over-looked by the grand purple-tinted Moosilauke. The highest of the Bentonpeaks reaches but little over three thousand five hundred feet, but smoothpastures lead up to the very edges of the cliffs, and lend to the prospect anunusually alpine aspect of ruggedness and height. The combination of thislong line of stern uplifted crags and the idyllic peace and soft Southernbeauty of the Connecticut intervale is the glory of the Newbury view. Inram
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