The White Mountains: a Handbook for Travellers: A Guide to ... the White Mountains of New Hampshire ... with the Lakes and Mountains of Western Maine; Also Lake Winnepesaukee, and the Upper Connecticut ValleyMoses Foster Sweetser |
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Common terms and phrases
Adams Ammonoosuc Androscoggin ascended Baldface Bartlett beautiful Bethlehem blue Brook Campton Carrigain Carrigain Notch Carter Dome Carter Notch Cascade Centre Harbor Chocorua cliffs Conway crags Crawford House crosses dark distant Double-Head Ellis River Falls farm farther flank Flume forest Franconia Fryeburg Giant's Stairs Glen House Gorham granite Green Mt guests hamlet height Indian intervales Jackson Jefferson Hill Kiarsarge Lafayette Lancaster ledges lofty Madison Maine meadows Moat Mt Moosilauke Moriah Moultonborough nearer nearly noble Ossipee Lake Ossipee Range Passaconaway passes path peak of Mt Pemigewasset Percy Peaks Pinkham Notch Pleasant Pond Presidential Range Prospect Railroad reached ridge of Mt River road rock rocky route runs Saco River Saco Valley Sandwich Dome Sandwich Range scenery Sebago Lake seen Shelburne side slope Squam Squam Lake Starr King station stream town Tripyramid Twin upper village Washington whence White Mountains White Mts Whiteface Wild-Cat Willey Wolfeborough woods
Popular passages
Page 261 - ... of gold and purple. As he looked, Ernest could hardly believe but that a smile beamed over the whole visage, with a radiance still brightening, although without motion of the lips. It was probably the effect of the western sunshine, melting through the...
Page 237 - Saco, that after 40 miles travel he did, for the most part, ascend, and within 12 miles of the top was neither tree nor grass, but low savins, which they went upon the top of sometimes...
Page 238 - The country beyond these hills, northward, is daunting terrible, being full of rocky hills, as thick as mole-hills in a meadow, and cloathed with infinite thick woods.
Page 339 - A curse upon ye, white men ! May the Great Spirit curse ye when he speaks in the clouds, and his words are fire ! Chocorua had a son, and ye killed him while the sky looked bright ! Lightning blast your crops ! Winds and fire destroy your dwellings ! The Evil Spirit breathe death upon your cattle ! Your graves lie in the war-path of the Indian ! Panthers howl and wolves fatten over your bones ! Chocorua goes to the Great Spirit, his curse stays with the white man...
Page 354 - This gentleman was the greatest benefactor to the province of New- Hampshire mentioned in its history. He was a man of sound understanding, refined taste, enlarged views, and a dignified spirit. His manners, also, were elegant, and his disposition enterprising. Agriculture in this province owed more to him than to any other man. He also originated the formation of new roads, and the improvement of old ones. All these circumstances rendered him very popular ; and he would probably have continued to...
Page 155 - At first it comes on murmuring to itself by the base of stately and retired mountains, through moist primitive woods whose juices it receives, where the bear still drinks it, and the cabins of settlers are far between, and there are few to cross its stream; enjoying in solitude its cascades still unknown to fame; by long ranges of mountains of Sandwich and of Squam, slumbering like tumuli of Titans, with the peaks of...
Page 261 - It is formed of three disconnected ledges of granite, in different vertical lines, their aggregate height being 36-40 ft. (as measured by the State Survey in 1871}; and their height above the lake is 1,200 ft. One rock forms the forehead, another the nose and upper lip, and the third the massive chin. Although the expression as seen from the road is melancholy and severe, there are points farther up the ridge where it becomes amiable and pleasant. The best time to make the visit is in the late afternoon,...
Page 398 - AROUND Sebago's lonely lake There lingers not a breeze to break The mirror which its waters make. The solemn pines along its shore, The firs which hang its gray rocks o'er, Are painted on its glassy floor. The sun looks o'er, with hazy eye, The snowy mountain-tops which lie Piled coldly up against the sky.
Page 388 - The fell savages quickly pulled her out, and made her dress for a march, but led her away with no more than one...