. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. 360 THE WHITE HILLS. three of the afternoon previous, made nine hours of toil in scalingthe ridge,—we gained the plateau above which the pinnacle of x\d-ams soars. The last part of our path out lay up the eastern ?wall,just where it joins the left-hand cliffs ; and here we had the excite-ment of grand rock scenery overhanging and threatening us as weclimbed; while the opposite rampart, covered with green, and chan. nolled by streams into very graceful lines, responded to the blastedcliffs like Gerizim to Ebal,—the hill of blessing to the
. The White hills; their legends, landscape, and poetry. 360 THE WHITE HILLS. three of the afternoon previous, made nine hours of toil in scalingthe ridge,—we gained the plateau above which the pinnacle of x\d-ams soars. The last part of our path out lay up the eastern ?wall,just where it joins the left-hand cliffs ; and here we had the excite-ment of grand rock scenery overhanging and threatening us as weclimbed; while the opposite rampart, covered with green, and chan. nolled by streams into very graceful lines, responded to the blastedcliffs like Gerizim to Ebal,—the hill of blessing to the mount of curs-ing. One could not turn the eye from side to side, without repeat-ing mentally the passage, strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. The last few rods of the passage out of the ravine led us up a nar-row and smooth gateway, quite steep, and carpeted with grass. We sat THE ASCENT OF MOUNT WASHINGTON. 361 some time in it, looking at the rocky desolation and horror just aboutus, balanced bj the lovely lines mto which the verdure of the westernramparts was broken,—not knowing what a splendid view was inreserve for us when we should step out upon the ridge. The hugecone of Mount Madison rose before us, steep, symmetrical, and sharp,with more commanding beauty of form than any other summit of theWhite Hills has ever shown to my eye. We were facing the south-east when we rose out of the ravine, and were so nearly under thecrest of Adams that its shap
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