What to see in America . y from the water, your voice or thereport of a pistol or the notes of a bugle come back withstartling clearness on a quiet day. Only a mile distant isProfile Lake, from which the woods sweep up a precipitousslope for more than a thousand feet, and you see, near thesummit, the grim stone features of the Old Man outjuttingfrom a tremendous cliff. The face is forty feet in Flume is an almost straight cleft nine hundred feet longand sixty deep. Its perpendicular walls are only a few feetapart, and a little stream which enters the upper end of theFlume by a leap
What to see in America . y from the water, your voice or thereport of a pistol or the notes of a bugle come back withstartling clearness on a quiet day. Only a mile distant isProfile Lake, from which the woods sweep up a precipitousslope for more than a thousand feet, and you see, near thesummit, the grim stone features of the Old Man outjuttingfrom a tremendous cliff. The face is forty feet in Flume is an almost straight cleft nine hundred feet longand sixty deep. Its perpendicular walls are only a few feetapart, and a little stream which enters the upper end of theFlume by a leap from the brow of a precipice rushes downthe shadowy depths with much noise and turmoil. Bears are still shot and trapped in the mountains. Thelast wolf was killed in 1870. About half of the main mass ofthe mountains is now a National Forest. It is estimated that the summer people leave over$5,000,000 a year in New Hampshire. Among their favoriteresorts are the shores of such lakes as Sunapee and Winnepe- New Hampshire 19. Lake Sunapee saukee. These names were bestowed by the Indians. The^latter means The Smiles of the Great Spirit. Winnepe- saukee is a very ir- regular lake with abreadth of from oneto twelve miles and alength of twenty, andwith three hundredand sixty islands. The beaches ofthe states shortshore line attractmany visitors, andso do the famous Isles of Shoals which Lowell describes as: A heap of bare and splintery crags,Tumbled about by lightning and frost,With rifts and chasms, and storm-bleached jags,That wait and growl for a ship to be lost. These isles areabout threeleagues off largest ofthe nine islandsis a mile inlength and halfa mile one of themenough groundfree from bowl-ders is found fora few acres ofmowing, and onanother for some garden plots. They are wholly treeless.
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