. Here and there in New England and Canada . dgy crest of the moun-tain, a patient and melancholy visage, noble and strong and benignant, gazingtoward the distant south-east, haggard in the clear light of morning, and fullof majestic expression when outlined against the reddening sky of late after-noon. The geologists tell us that this weird simulacrum is produced by threedisconnected ledges of granite, nearly forty feet in height, and twelve hun-dred feet above the lake beneath it; and they warn us that the ledges arefast crumbling away, and that before many years the Profile will have van-is
. Here and there in New England and Canada . dgy crest of the moun-tain, a patient and melancholy visage, noble and strong and benignant, gazingtoward the distant south-east, haggard in the clear light of morning, and fullof majestic expression when outlined against the reddening sky of late after-noon. The geologists tell us that this weird simulacrum is produced by threedisconnected ledges of granite, nearly forty feet in height, and twelve hun-dred feet above the lake beneath it; and they warn us that the ledges arefast crumbling away, and that before many years the Profile will have van-ished. According to old traditions, the lonely stone face received the adora-tion of the Indians of the surrounding vallejs, as a visible manifestation oftheir Great Spirit. It is now more than eighty 3-ears since two wanderingmountaineers of our race discovered it, and with high political loyalty criedout, That is Jefferson. Can their descendants liken it to Cleveland orHarrison. Or will it fade away into a Meg Merrilies, and so pass, and be. OLD MAN Oh THE MOUNTAINS. 64 seen no more? A few rods down the road from the Profile House youcome to a guide-board, and, looking upward, the strange vision is apparent;and, passing either way thence, it changes its expression, and becomes femi-
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