A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . rom both sialmost dividing it into several parts. From the southern extremity of thislake to the north-west corner, there is good navigation in the summer, andgenerally a good road in the winter; the lake is frozen about three monthsm the year, and many sleighs
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . rom both sialmost dividing it into several parts. From the southern extremity of thislake to the north-west corner, there is good navigation in the summer, andgenerally a good road in the winter; the lake is frozen about three monthsm the year, and many sleighs and teams, from the surrounding towns,cross it on the ice. J)r. Dwight has described this lake, as it appears from the top of Red 82 BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES. Mountain, with his usual felicity. Immediately at the foot of the heighton which we stood, and in the bottom of the immense valley below, spreadsouth-eastward the waters of the Winnipiseogee in complete view; exceptthat one or two of its arms were partially concealed by intervening penin-sulas. A finer object of the same nature was perhaps never seen. Thelakes, which I had visited in my northern and western excursions, were allof them undivided masses, bordered by shores comparatively straight. Thiswas, centrally, a vast column, if I may be allowed the term, twenty-three. Winnipiseogee Lake. miles in length, and from six to eight in breadth, shooting out with inimi-table beauty a succession of arms, some of them not inferior in length tothe whole breadth of the lake. These were fashioned with every eleganceof figure, bordered with the most beautiful winding shores, and studdedwith a multitude of islands. Their relative positions, also, could scarcelybe more happy. Many of the islands are large, exquisitely fashioned, and arranged in amanner not less singular than pleasing. As they met the eye, when sur-veyed from this summit, they were set in groups on both sides the greatchannel, and left this vast field of water unoccu
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