. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. n the return drive, that a perfectly finished picture is shown from asmall hill, about four miles from the hotel, just at the turn of theroad that leads to The Lead-mine Bridge. Mount ]Madison sitson a plateau over the Androscoggin meadows. No interveningridges hide his pyramid, or break the keen lines of his sides. Hetowers clear, symmetrical, and proud, against the vivid blue of thewestern sky. And as if the bright foreground of the meadowsgolden in the afternoon light, and the velvety softness of the vagueblue shadows that dim the des
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. n the return drive, that a perfectly finished picture is shown from asmall hill, about four miles from the hotel, just at the turn of theroad that leads to The Lead-mine Bridge. Mount ]Madison sitson a plateau over the Androscoggin meadows. No interveningridges hide his pyramid, or break the keen lines of his sides. Hetowers clear, symmetrical, and proud, against the vivid blue of thewestern sky. And as if the bright foreground of the meadowsgolden in the afternoon light, and the velvety softness of the vagueblue shadows that dim the desolation of the mountain, and the huesthat flame on the peaks of its lower ridges, and the vigor of itssweep upwards to a sharp crest, are not enough to perfect the THE FOUR VALLEYS. () artistic finish of the picture, a frame is gracefully carved out of twonearer hills, to seclude it from any neighboring roughness aroundthe Peabody valley, and to narrow into the most shapely proportionsthe plateau from which it soars. It is not probable that the tourist. will find any other point in the region, where one of the White Moun-tains is singled out from the rest and drawn so firmly in isolatedgrandeur. And yet he will find that a quarter of a mile, either way,from the insignificant hill on which his wagon rests, spoils the charmof the picture by breaking the frame, or cutting away the base, orshutting out some portion of the meadow foreground, or extinguishingthe flashes of the silvery river. This view, during the long midsummer days, can be enjoyed after 10 THE WHITE HILLS. tea, and hi;tore sunset, when the hght is most propitious, on the sameday that the traveller leaves Boston. A drive of three quarters ofan hour from the Alpine House in Gorham, on the Shelburne road,is the only exertion it costs. Or, the same time devoted to a wagonride towards Berlin, or towards Randolph, will bring out other moun-tains of the range, framed off in similar ways from the chain, inmajesty equally im
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