. Waldie's select circulating library. ng so dark a mass. The course of the rapid Con-necticut was marked out by the light morning mist float-ing over it; the green mountains of Vermont were visibleeighty miles distant in the west; and a long streak oflight, far away upon the eastern horizon, appeared topoint out the waters of the broad Atlantic ; but the sunshining brightly upon the surface of tiie vapours in thevalleys rendered appearances so deceptive that it wasdifficult to distinguish between them and the numerouslakes with which that portion of the country abounds. The summits of aU the
. Waldie's select circulating library. ng so dark a mass. The course of the rapid Con-necticut was marked out by the light morning mist float-ing over it; the green mountains of Vermont were visibleeighty miles distant in the west; and a long streak oflight, far away upon the eastern horizon, appeared topoint out the waters of the broad Atlantic ; but the sunshining brightly upon the surface of tiie vapours in thevalleys rendered appearances so deceptive that it wasdifficult to distinguish between them and the numerouslakes with which that portion of the country abounds. The summits of aU the White Mountains, exceptingthat of Washington, which has a short flat ridge with aslight peak at each end, are rounded off, and composedof loose fragments of granite, which, at the distance ofsome miles, assumes the white appearance from whichthey take their name. The intense heat of the Americansummer usually thaws the snow upon them by the endof August, but this year it was found, during that month. and astonishment; but when I brouj. chair, and, squirting a mouthful of tobacco juice into tlgrate, walked to and fro upon the floor of the room, withhis hands in his pockets, whistUng Yankee Doodle,and thus made my triumph complete. I rode out early the following morning to the iworks at Franconia, about six miles distant. They artthe property of a company, and produce a metal of soft,tough quality, considered superior to any in the ore is found in considerable quantities in the hills,three miles distant, and supplies another foundery inthe immediate vicinity ; both establishments, however,are upon a small scale. Pursuing the Plymouth road forseven miles, I entered the Franconia Notch, a continua-tion of the White Mountains range, and visited theProfile of the Old Man of the Mountain, which is amost singular lusus natures. An exact representation ofthe human features, as seen in profile, is most correctlydelineated by the hand of nature upon the brow of a barerock nearl
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