. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . named after theline in old George Herberts Sahhath Hymn, it was so cool, so calm,so bright; but, alas! for us sightseers, the bridal of the earth andsky was a bank of impenetrable mist. 130 CHAPTER XIV. ImBAGOG and the Rough Coos, whose thick woods shakeTheir pine-cones in TJrabagog lake. IMBAGOG I No lake in the country had more ex-cited my curiosit}^ When I was a boy, a lot ofbright fellows in Cambridge used to come up hereregularly on
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . named after theline in old George Herberts Sahhath Hymn, it was so cool, so calm,so bright; but, alas! for us sightseers, the bridal of the earth andsky was a bank of impenetrable mist. 130 CHAPTER XIV. ImBAGOG and the Rough Coos, whose thick woods shakeTheir pine-cones in TJrabagog lake. IMBAGOG I No lake in the country had more ex-cited my curiosit}^ When I was a boy, a lot ofbright fellows in Cambridge used to come up hereregularly on natural-history expeditions, and thetreasures of ornithology they brought back ex-cited both my imagination and envy. You canfind now many a list and paper, in the pro-ceedings of scientific societies near Boston, uponthis lake and its its scenery liad been so often described to me ! The beautifulway in which tlie skv painted its own hues upon the surface of thewater, while the shores, many tinted, now abrupt, now low, forestedhere, cleared and tenanted there, or walled in with upright crags else-where, furnished a glorious frame for the picture. Then the moun-tains ! How on everj- side they filled the background, towering greaterwith distance, as do the gigantic figures of ancient history! Eastward,were tlie rounded masses of the great hills at the he
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