. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . ue gods, may, perhaps, have sat for this archetype of thecoming man. An almost superhuman expression of frozen terror — a far-away look—an intense and speechless amazement . .seeming to declare the presence of some unutterable vision, too bright 192 and dazzling for mortal eyes to behold, are the phrases by which this^vriter tries to convey its effect upon him. It does everything butspeak,— nay, you are ready to swear that it is going to speak! ... Lett
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . ue gods, may, perhaps, have sat for this archetype of thecoming man. An almost superhuman expression of frozen terror — a far-away look—an intense and speechless amazement . .seeming to declare the presence of some unutterable vision, too bright 192 and dazzling for mortal eyes to behold, are the phrases by which this^vriter tries to convey its effect upon him. It does everything butspeak,— nay, you are ready to swear that it is going to speak! ... Letthe visitor be ever so unimpassioned, surely he must be more thanmortal to resist the impression of mingled awe, wonder, and admira-tion which a first sicht of this weird object forces upon him. Thus I might multiply the record of what men, not easily moved,have thought of this startling accident of rock-crumbling, which sosublimely,so dignifledly, portrays the human countenance, without ashade of caricature or a tinge of mockery. 193. CHAPTER XX. IHE iONNECTICUT ¥aLLEY. The mountains are more grand and inspiring when we stand at the proper distanceand look at them, than when we look from them.— Starr King. I^E NOW turned our faces northward. Returning toBethlehem Junction we stepped into a secondtrain of narrow-gauge cars and in ten minutes(for it is only a couple of miles) were set down atThe Maplewood, in the edge of Bethlehem town-ship, one of the largest and most modern of theNew Hampshire summer hotels. In fact, it willsoon be a sort of village by Itself, for there areso many annexes, cottages, private houses andparks, in the near neighborhood, that the name even now covers muchmore than a hotel. And what a hotel! Piled up in architecture, likea gentlemans villa rather than a public stopping-place, it is capaciousenough to hold 500 guests comfortably, and after that can overflowinto annexes which accommodate nearly as many more; and to great sizeand external beaut
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