. The New England magazine . Timothy Dwight. THE LITERATURE OE THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 19 > ^t • 1 •> / • v V -^ #, i ; 1 L f. - ^. still, what must it have been in the seven-teenth century? Whittier evidently knewand admired the passage I have quoted,when he wrote, in the first part of the Bridal of Pennacook : * * * And atopOf old Agioochook had seen the mountainsPiled to the northward, shagged with wood, and thickAs meadow mole-hills * * * Brief historical narratives of earlyexplorations of the Presidential rangewere given by Winthrop in his Journal,1642, and by Dr. Jeremy Belknapin his

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. The New England magazine . Timothy Dwight. THE LITERATURE OE THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 19 > ^t • 1 •> / • v V -^ #, i ; 1 L f. - ^. still, what must it have been in the seven-teenth century? Whittier evidently knewand admired the passage I have quoted,when he wrote, in the first part of the Bridal of Pennacook : * * * And atopOf old Agioochook had seen the mountainsPiled to the northward, shagged with wood, and thickAs meadow mole-hills * * * Brief historical narratives of earlyexplorations of the Presidential rangewere given by Winthrop in his Journal,1642, and by Dr. Jeremy Belknapin his manuscript Tour to the WhiteMountains, 1784. Dr. Belknap was oneof a party which climbed Mount Wash-ington, probably by the way of Tucker-mans Ravine, and he makes mention of 720 THE LITERATURE OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.

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