. Here and there in New England and Canada . several uninhabited islets gemming the bright lake, and the great mountainsof Ossipee and Sandwich towering in the distance. How start to light the clustering isles, Each silver-hemmed! How sharply showThe shadows of their rocky pilesAnd tree-tops in the waves below! The pleasant village of Wolfeborough, at the end of a branch of theNorthern Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, four hours from Boston,and two hours from North Conway, has been a favorite summer-resort for. MOUNT BELKNAP, FROM forty years, and affords accommodations forover a thous
. Here and there in New England and Canada . several uninhabited islets gemming the bright lake, and the great mountainsof Ossipee and Sandwich towering in the distance. How start to light the clustering isles, Each silver-hemmed! How sharply showThe shadows of their rocky pilesAnd tree-tops in the waves below! The pleasant village of Wolfeborough, at the end of a branch of theNorthern Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, four hours from Boston,and two hours from North Conway, has been a favorite summer-resort for. MOUNT BELKNAP, FROM forty years, and affords accommodations forover a thousand guests. The view is of great \,^^ beauty, and includes the narrow Wolfeborough Bay,beyond whose shining levels the peaks of the Belknap ;range rise with grand effect. The facilities for boat- :;ing, fishing, and riding are good; and here also the vacation-idler may say, with Walt Whitman: — I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass. A mile or so back of the village is the charming Lake ) / W^entworth, four miles long, and endowed with several islands, and abund-ant store of fish. On its eastern shore stood Wentworth House, the greatfeudal mansion of John Wentworth, the last royal governor of New Hamp-shire, who fled from this fair domain to the British fleet at Portsmouth,bearing Lady Wentworth with him. The house was attacked by the patriotsin 1775, and burned to the ground in 1820. Six or seven miles from Wolfeborough is Copple Crown, whose summit,reached
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