. The New England magazine . edthe most obvious means of escapefrom his painful and dangerous posi-tion after he had lost his way. Inthe midst of a driving snowstormhe persisted in remaining on theupper part of the mountain, abovethe line of vegetation, where hepassed two nights of horror and agony THE LITERATURE OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 723 before he was rescued by a i)arty ofsearchers who were naturally astonishedto find him ahve. The reader of hisbook feels both pity and Dr. Balls experience, which shouldhave served as a warning to indiscreetmountain climbers, has not fulfilled
. The New England magazine . edthe most obvious means of escapefrom his painful and dangerous posi-tion after he had lost his way. Inthe midst of a driving snowstormhe persisted in remaining on theupper part of the mountain, abovethe line of vegetation, where hepassed two nights of horror and agony THE LITERATURE OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 723 before he was rescued by a i)arty ofsearchers who were naturally astonishedto find him ahve. The reader of hisbook feels both pity and Dr. Balls experience, which shouldhave served as a warning to indiscreetmountain climbers, has not fulfilled eventhat purpose. The fatal accidents onMount Washington since his day have all phrases. We may, he says in his in-troduction,— we may for future visionsgaze back from the cloud-capped cragsinto the valley of the past, and rescuefrom the oblivious mist of years the oralmonuments, that, tinctured by the life-passion of times long gone, linger likevisions of light upon the map of talks about the works of nature in. The Old Man of the A RECENT PHOTOGRAPH. been due to the same insane entertaining collection of curiousold Indian legends, myths, and traditions,with accounts of numerous foolish feats andadventures, may be found in a book pub-lished on the top of Mount AVashingtonin 1858, and entitled Historical Relicsof the White Mountains, by John Like many worthy dabblersin literature, this author was fond of far-fetched, mixed metaphors and inflated their most sublime flights, the deso-lating track of the thundering avalanche,and those displays of almighty power which cause sensations of awe and mor-tal weakness. He calls the mountains gray old piles of eternity and baldold heads of nature, and makes theword crags do great service, precededby such appropriate adjectives as towering,frowning, and beetling. Among the fool-ish feats to which reference has been 724 THE LITERATURE OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
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