Incidents in White Mountain History: Containing Facts Relating to the Discovery and Settlement of the Mountains, Indian History and Traditions, a Minute and Authentic Account of the Destruction of the Willey Family, Geology and Temperature of the Mountains; Together with Numerous Anecdotes Illustrating Life in the Back Woods |
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... - Thunder - storms . - Wind . - Cold and frost.- Clearness of the atmosphere . - Length of days.- Springs . Combustion , • 291 CHAPTER XXIII . Conclusion , .. .300 CHAPTER I. THE MOUNTAINS . THE EXTENT AND LOCATION OF XII CONTENTS .
... - Thunder - storms . - Wind . - Cold and frost.- Clearness of the atmosphere . - Length of days.- Springs . Combustion , • 291 CHAPTER XXIII . Conclusion , .. .300 CHAPTER I. THE MOUNTAINS . THE EXTENT AND LOCATION OF XII CONTENTS .
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... length , running in a north - westerly direction , turning to the right a little at the northern extremity . The mountains here are abruptly torn apart , forming a very narrow valley , through which flows the Saco . " The sublime and ...
... length , running in a north - westerly direction , turning to the right a little at the northern extremity . The mountains here are abruptly torn apart , forming a very narrow valley , through which flows the Saco . " The sublime and ...
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... length , forming beautiful cascades after a storm . In this valley , but above the ravine , is the great plain from which the ascent to the top of Mount Washington was formerly made . Early explorers always ascended from the eastern ...
... length , forming beautiful cascades after a storm . In this valley , but above the ravine , is the great plain from which the ascent to the top of Mount Washington was formerly made . Early explorers always ascended from the eastern ...
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... length of the profile , from the top of the forehead to the lowest point of the chin , is eighty feet . The face looks towards the south - east , and is perhaps half a mile distant from the observer in the road . At the base of the ...
... length of the profile , from the top of the forehead to the lowest point of the chin , is eighty feet . The face looks towards the south - east , and is perhaps half a mile distant from the observer in the road . At the base of the ...
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... length , and half as wide , called Profile Lake . Its waters are destitute of fish . It was never frequented by the Indians from fear of the stern image reflected in it . Oakes speaks of a beautiful optical illusion to be seen from the ...
... length , and half as wide , called Profile Lake . Its waters are destitute of fish . It was never frequented by the Indians from fear of the stern image reflected in it . Oakes speaks of a beautiful optical illusion to be seen from the ...
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Page 136 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 297 - Uprear'd of human hands. Come and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
Page 122 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 159 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 143 - Go, call thy sons; instruct them what a debt They owe their ancestors; and make them swear To pay it, by transmitting down entire Those sacred rights to which themselves were born.
Page 196 - His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast...
Page 156 - The rocks proclaim the approaching Deity. Lo, earth receives him from the bending skies ! Sink down, ye mountains ; and ye valleys, rise ! With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay ; Be smooth, ye rocks ; ye rapid floods, give way. The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold ! Hear Him, ye deaf; and all ye blind, behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he the obstructed paths of sound shall clear, And bid new music charm th...
Page 34 - Ere long they come, where that same wicked wight His dwelling has, low in an hollow cave, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight...
Page 266 - And a thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start : And a thousand recollections weave their bright hues into woof, As I listen to the patter of the soft rain on the roof.
Page 52 - A yell the dead might wake to hear Swelled on the night air, far and clear, — Then smote the Indian tomahawk On crashing door and shattering lock, — Then rang the rifle-shot, — and then The shrill death-scream of stricken men, — Sank the red axe in woman's brain, And childhood's cry arose in vain, — Bursting through roof and window came, Red, fast, and fierce, the kindled flame; And blended fire and moonlight glared On still dead men and weapons bared.