{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3792", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "A.CJ.\\nv^c-c^\\nNOTES\\nMADE DURING AN EXCURSION TO THE\\nHIGHLANDS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE\\nAND\\nLAKE WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nBY A GENTLEMAN OF BOSTON.\\nL\\nCome, give thy soul a loose, and taste\\nThe pleasures of vicissitude. Dryden.\\n^i\\nANDOVER:\\nPRINTED BY FLAGG, GOULD, AND NEWMAN\\nfor sale by them, and by\\nHILLIARD, GRAY, CO.\\nBOSTON.\\n1833.", "height": "3656", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": ".nIV*\\nv\\\\\\\\", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "To Mrs. H. W. B.\\nThese notes having been exposed to the curiosity of\\nan Editor of a distant Newspaper, extracts, I know not\\nto what extent, were printed without the writer s knowl-\\nedge.\\nThe remarks which remained on the loose, and near-\\nly worn out cards, are here transcribed for your amuse-\\nment. In one instance they have excited the curiosity\\nof some of your friends to make an excursion to the re-\\ngion of lakes and mountains but I understand they re-\\nturned exceedingly disappointed. The Spartan soup\\nthat gave vigour to the Lacedemonians, was very dis-\\ntasteful to the luxurious Asiatics so your fair friends\\nnot being prepared by a proper temperament, to feel the\\ninvigorating freshness of mountain air, returned to their\\nsea coal fire, exhausted by the fatigue of the journey.\\nHappily, however, for them, their nervous and dyspep-\\ntical complaints were suspended from the hour they\\ncame in sight of Lake Winnipiseogee to the seventeenth\\nday after they reached home thus giving them a taste\\nof the pleasures of vicissitude.\\nSometimes tis grateful for the rich to try\\nA short vicissitude, and fit of poverty\\nA savory dish, a homely treat,\\nWhere all is plain, where all is neat,\\nWithout the stately spacious room.\\nThe Persian carpet, or the Tyrian loom,\\nClear up the cloudy foreheads of the great. Drydtn.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "7\\nEXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nThe Jews mast have been a happy people daring the\\nforty years in which they were journeying through the\\ndesert for they were not encumbered with the care of\\nhouses and farms and though they were a money-getting\\nand a money-savint; race from the time of their first mi-\\ngration from Mesopotania through their long captivityo^\\nin Babylon, and ever since their dispersion, they had no\\ntemptation to accumulate what would but increase their\\nburdens without gratifying their desires. The land of\\npromise was before tliem to this all their movements\\nwere directed, and here all their hopes were concentrat-\\ned. Somewhat of the like feeling animates the man, who,\\ndetermining to visit a certain quarter of the earth, on\\nquitting the Egyptian hubbub of the city, leaves all his\\ncares in the Red sea, or the River, and committing him-\\nself to the Hobab of the stage coach, proceeds, almost un-\\nconscious of the time, to the place of his destination.\\nIt requires no strong effort of the imagination to pic-\\nture scenes of beauty and magnificence with the con-\\nception of something enchantingly picturesque or sublime-\\nJy terrific in the unknown regions we are about to visit\\nthe impressions we have received from the written or ver-\\n1*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nbal accounts of former travellers the sketches we have\\nseen delineated by the pencil of the artist and the vivid\\ndescriptions of the poet all serve to divert our attention\\nfrom intermediate objects and we pass over rugged roads,\\nand even encounter perils without much observation.\\nThis propensity of the human mind to anticipate hap-\\npiness, has afforded much speculation to philosophers, and\\nmuch theologization to divines but its immediate influ-\\nence is in the common occurrencies of life, where we stop\\nnot to analyse and theorize, but to receive impressions\\nand having exhausted curiosity, or blunted the edge of\\nsensibility with common and daily objects, we eagerly\\ncatch at any thing that can revive or excite emotions.\\nThe same principle that urges the scholar to the ruins\\nof antiquity Capt. Parry to the frozen ocean Bishop\\nHeber to the burning and deadly climate of Calcutta the\\nman of fashion to the court the lady to the rout; the\\ncitizen to the coffee house the politician to the news\\nroom the crowd to a conflagration the mob to a camp\\nmeeting or an insurrection caucus, drives some to Niag-\\nara and us to Winnipiseogee.\\nWe may however, be as much disappointed as was the\\namiable Mrs. Murphy, who, when transported from the sim-\\nplicity of a rural life to the fashionable associations of the\\ncity, said to her husband, I expected fiom what I had\\nheard of the affectionate amiability of your female friends,\\nto have been introduced to a very polished circle, accom-\\nplished in manners elevated in principle social in in-\\ntercourse, and open hearted.\\nTo Winnipiseogee, however, we go, and having chosen\\nalmost the only day that has escaped the superstitious de-\\nnunciations of some civilized, classical, or savage nation,\\nwe set out under the most promising and propitious sky.\\nA long sojourn in a private carriage appropriated to a", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 7\\nselect few, is of all dull modes of conveyance, the dullest,\\nfor this very reason, that all know each others sentiments\\nand this may be the reason why so many married people\\nappear so listless in each other s company. On the con-\\ntrary a stage coach is generally animated, at least after a\\nsocial dinner has opened the mouths and removed the tim-\\nidity and restraint of the company.\\nIt has often been my fate to be seated among some very\\npugnacious animals of a political party, and a more un-\\npleasant bearbating could not occur. Now the men were\\nall gentlemen of intelligence on other subjects than the\\nfive points, and the pending election and the women unob-\\ntrusively kind and when we left them, we felt the loss\\nof agreeable companions with whom we had broken the\\nsame bread of humanity, and drank of the same cup of\\nkindness.\\nNow, vociferated a lad from the top of the carriage\\nto a companion within, we are on the summit of Tug\\nhill, a name which they had given to the eminence on\\nwhich the Andover Theological Seminary is situated.\\nWhether it derived that name from the labor of the ascent\\nfrom the village below, or from the toil of their studies we\\ndid not learn. From this summit we had an extensive\\nprospect of a rich and fertile territory, reaching to moun-\\ntains on the west, over a space of 60 or 70 miles. A gen-\\ntleman in the carriage assured us that he had clearly dis-\\ntinguished the buildings of the Institution from the sum-\\nmit of Wachusett.\\nMuch has been said, and much written about and\\nagainst this Institution, and Amherst College. All litera-\\nry institutions have some peculiarities, vv-hich do not much\\naffect the ultimate object of education. In general how-\\never, it is but prudent that the friends of classical educa-\\ntion, should miss no opportunity for strengthening the", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "o EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nhands, whether sectarian or not, of those who would erect\\nbarriers against a fluctuating, if not a deluging sea of igno-\\nrance and indifference. That all institutions must event-\\nually conform to the spirit of the age has been proved by\\nexperience. Catholic England, yielded to Protestantism.\\nHarvard may become Calvinistic, or Amherst Unitarian\\nbut while they both improve the understandings of young\\nmen by unrestricted classical learning, they are among\\nthe most efficient means of elevating the moral feeling,\\nand character of the people. Our liberal fruit grows\\nfrom the puritanic stock, and this perhaps is the best for\\nproducing that which is durable and refined.\\nThis Institution is constantly furnishing the public\\nwith able preachers. I could name one, and he not the\\nonly one, who has the superlative art of blending ethical\\nand theological subjects, so skilfully as to make deeper\\nimpressions than probably either would, separately treated.\\nHis labor is in ratiocination his relaxation in wit. From\\nprofound abstraction, he rises to a ready popular display\\nof impressive moral truths. His style bears the impress\\nof originality it may exhibit the thoughts of others; but\\nit is with examples and illustrations furnished by observa-\\ntion on life. Hence he has no paragraphs which look\\nlike accidental patches and though not new, every idea\\nso perfectly belongs to the subject, as to make the whole\\nconsistent and novel. His style is likewise correct with-\\nout being labored impressive without being pointed, and\\nvariegated without deviating from simplicity. A mind\\nthat strongly conceived, and furnished with a copious\\nsupply of words wanted not the embellishments of the\\nrhetorician to arrest attention. It was impossible not to\\nadmire the expression, while we deeply felt the force and\\njustness of the sentiments. When we read a Rambler,\\nwe are hurried on by the torrent of Johnson s eloquence,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 9\\nand afterwards wonder whence our mingled sensations of\\nsurprise and energy. We return to examine phrases, im-\\nages and splendid paragraphs, and conclude in admiring\\nthe art of a writer who could clothe common place thoughts\\nin such a captivating dress. In vve have the like\\nstrength of mind that more profundity of thought, and\\nan equal felicity of illustration, yet so simple, and perspic-\\nuous that we select no extrinsic beauties to examine.\\nStriking peculiarities of language sometimes appear al-\\nways racy sometimes quaint and often bold.\\nA grand, magnificent, or strange production of nature,\\ntakes, it appears to me, a stronger hold on the memory,\\nand is connected with more associations, than belong to\\nsuch works of art. Is it because they have the chara.c-\\nter of permanency of age A Town that has sucji a\\nland mark is sure to be remembered. Amid a thousand\\ntrees, the great elm in the centre of this village is distin-\\nguishable. An attempt to remove this Tree was success-\\nfully resisted by the neighbors, the lovers of the picturesque\\nand the useful. We were shown a copy of some verses\\nmade on this subject, which, though destitute of all poet-\\nic merit, we thought worthy of being preserved, as a me-\\nmorial of a patriotic and philanthropic spirit. See Ap-\\npendix A.\\nHow many of the little incidents of social intercourse,\\nindifferent at first, afford agreeable sensations on recollec-\\ntion. In passing yonder low roofed cottage, seeming to\\nthe traveller never to have been the abode of gay amuse-\\nment, many past pleasures, of which it was the scene,\\nrise vividly to view. There, once associated a few sum-\\nmer boarders, who, for the sake of health had come from\\nthe sea-ports to breath the invigorating air of this salubri-\\nous region not unfrequently seeking inspiration in the\\ncool and shady scenery of yonder eminence which they", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nnamed Mount Carmel. They soon drew around them\\nsome of tlie literati of the vicinity. A little society was\\nthus formed, which by conversation curtailed the hours\\nof sleep. Among them was a gentleman, remarkable for\\nsudden bursts of rare and original observations. There\\nwere in his manners and his remarks something irresista-\\nbly engaging. Society mellowed his wit; and when\\nthe thoughts of others seemed to be exhausted, he would\\nstrike a vein, and produce a flow of animation. Then it\\nwas that his flashes, like a morning sun, aroused every\\nperson, however much disposed to retire. He however\\ncould not avoid, nor always parry the jokes of the young\\nladies and once he was the subject of a Jeu d^esprit\\nwhich, if we remember right ran thus\\nTwas a beautiful day, and the beauty was brighter,\\nThat care on our bosoms grew lighter and lighter,\\nAs friends sitting round us, repeated with pleasure,\\nHow sweet is this meeting of friendship and leisure\\nNot a cloud in tiie sky, nor a curl on the brow,\\nA repose stole upon us, we could not tell how\\nNor should we have broken this feeling of heaven,\\nHad the tongue of the clock not reported, eleven,\\nWhen the Squire starting up at his client s loud call,\\nFrom paradise, cried, thus was old Adam s fall,\\nYet, though care approaches, and though the sky lowers,\\nIn sun-shine, we ravish d a bliss of three hours,\\nAnd may I to Jericho, rudely bo carted.\\nIf next when we meet thus, with ease we ll be parted.\\nTo Jericho wherefore cries Lis, with a smile\\nBut you need not remain there a wonderful while\\nAnd should you go thither, I trust you will ride,\\nFor you walk it so slowly, you ll lose the whole tide\\nThe Squire was struck dumb by the sly little wit,\\nAnd in private, confessed twas a palpable hit,\\nFor now, to his sorrow, so long had he tarried,\\nThe Church might be closed ere he went to be married\\nNoon brought us to Haverhill on the north bank of the\\nMerrimack, a town no less beautiful from its natural sit-\\nuation, than from the aspect of its buildings. Its antiqui-\\nties and history afford some tragical, and many romantic", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 11\\nincidents for the embellishment of future novels, and the\\ncatastrophies of future dramatic compositions. The sack\\nof the town by the Indians and French in 1708 the\\nheroic conduct of Mrs, Dustan the sagacity and address\\nof Hagar the slave, in secreting the two infants, and ma-\\nny other events which are yet fresh in tradition, narrated\\nwith truth, and embellished with the colours of an imagi-\\nnation that could remigrate a century and a half, would\\nbe as interesting as it would be novel.\\nI dislike historical romances even from the pen of Flo-\\nrian, because they confound history. But those whose\\nbodies are real, and where dress only is fanciful, like the\\nhistorical plays of Shakspeare, personify the age, assist\\nour conceptions of character and actions, and bring the\\nvery fashions and pressure of the times home to our bo-\\nsoms.\\nAfter dining at the hotel, we stopped the stage on the\\nExeter road, to receive Mr. W. who was to conduct us to\\nthe White Hills, but not being ready, he promised to join\\nus to-morrow.\\nWhile the horses stopped to bait, after we left cu-\\nriosity prompted me to look at the unwashed cheeks of\\nMrs. Thirty seven years had elapsed since a beau-\\ntiful girl of 15 sat on the knee of Washington at\\nA kiss of Washington could not leave a spot on the char-\\nriest maiden s cheek, and if it had, it would always be\\nconsidered a beauty spot, which no fair one would erase.\\nAs Washington passed to New Hampshire, he was con-\\nducted through this rout, to be present at the wedding of\\nhis secretary Mr. Lear.\\nPeople of each sex, and all ages flocked from every\\npart of the country to see him. Two beautiful girls went\\non the day previous, to their relative s where he was to\\nlodge, in order to see the reputed father of his Country.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nAfter the evening levee was ended, they were introduced,\\nwith reference, by their jolly relation, to the visit of the\\nqueen of a far distant Country to see the glory of Israel.\\nTheir, modest, gentle, and affectionate carriage exceed-\\ningly gratified the General, and engaged his attention.\\nNothing tends more to social intercourse, than the perfor-\\nmance of some little favour. One of Washington s gloves\\nhad a rip one of the girls, without speaking, took it up,\\nopened her thread case, repaired it, and silently put it on\\nthe sofa. Washington observed the act, and instead of\\ncomplimenting, took her hand, and drew her towards him,\\nand impressed a kiss on her cheek. All this was a move-\\nment of the heart, on the part of both. She declared\\nshe would never wash that spot and T could not\\nhelp thinking, as I looked upon her, that the rosy\\nblush had not been impaired by time, and that like the\\nimmortal amaranth it retained its freshness and beauty,\\nfed by the sweet contentment of her thoughts!\\nI must here relate another instance which came with-\\nin my knowledge of the feelings of Washington towards\\nhis friends, because more of the heart is seen in these lit-\\ntle remembrances, than in a whole life of public transac-\\ntions. Thomas Austin was his steward while the head\\nquarters of the army were at Cambridge. Mrs. Austin\\nsuperintended the household. Many years had elapsed\\nand she was advanced in years and infirm. Probably he\\nnever expected to see her again. Old as she was, howev-\\ner, she determined to see him and on the morning of\\nhis departure from Boston, was conveyed to town and\\nseated at a window in Union street to see him pass. The\\ncavalcade approached she was all eagerness, and fixed\\nher eyes intently on the carriage containing several per-\\nsons, one of whom she supposed to be the man she long-\\ned to behold but neither of them noticed her, nor did", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 13\\nshe see any resemblance of Washington time and fa-\\ntigue must have changed his appearance or she must be\\nforgoCten. On a sudden the procession made a momen-\\ntary halt what was the matter Washington had caught\\na view of her face he checked his horse, moved his head,\\nwaved his hand, repeated the movements she turned not\\nher gaze from the carriage, and he was obliged to proceed\\nwithout being recognized. When the good lady was in-\\nformed of all this, she almost fainted, and looked as though\\nshe would say, now let me depart, for he remembers\\nme.\\nWe tarried a little while in formerly the second\\ntown in New Hampshire. Though it shows the marks\\nof age, it has not many relics of ancient times. Former-\\nly the people of***** were noticed for their extreme di-\\nvision into classes; there was -an aristocracy separate\\nfrom the plebeian. In all small places, where the proper-\\nty is in the possession of the few, those few will soon be\\nemployed by the rest to conduct the public affairs of the\\ncommunity and a long continuance in the magistracy,\\nattended with the deference usually paid to authority, su-\\nperinduces a feeling of superiority increasing till it\\nswells into a kind of hereditary claim and every new\\naspirant is viewed as an interloper. This classification\\ncontinued to the end of the revolution. A few struggled\\nto preserve it long after, but to a new order of things old\\nprejudices were obliged to submit. The age of buckram,\\nof hoop-petticoats, of scarlet cloaks, bush wigs, slashed\\nsleeves, silver buckles and tight breeches, must yield to\\nthe more easy and convenient forms of modern dress.\\nBladam comes into church metamorphosed into a plain\\nmatron, and Sir is revolutionized into pantaloons, a round\\nhat, and shoe strings. The congregation no longer wait\\nat the door for the Squire s, the General s and the Cor-\\n2", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nporal s family to enter or depart the church and even\\nthe minister has ceased to strew flowers over the illustri-\\nous dead where none grew before.\\nHence this country shows at present no class of singu-\\nlar old men, retaining with ancient garments, ancient\\nmanners. Broad caricatures may be given to regularity,\\nbut broad comedy can draw but few supplies from odd\\nand singular characters these are furnished by older\\ncountries these belong to the old age of nations whose\\nevery condition of life is stationary and manners grow\\nup with the peculiarities of the soil. Hence our novelists,\\nwho profess to paint the manners as they are, have re-\\ncourse to other nations, and other times, for broad and\\nsingular characters not perhaps recollecting, that as so-\\nciety refines, though the same nature pervades the age\\nunder different shapes and modifications, the colours giv-\\nen to the one will not represent the other in fact, that it\\nrequires a very comprehensive knowledge of human socie-\\nty under its various modifications, to trace the operations\\nof the passions, and detect the same character under dif-\\nferent circumstances. He will be little respected as the\\npainter of the times, though he employ the wit of Swift,\\nwho shall place to this age a grave procession of Templars,\\nmarching in solemn order, with all the paraphernalia of\\nclouts and banners, to lay the foundation stone of a pub-\\nlic edifice because, every one at once perceives, that it\\nis out of character with the age. An age as remarkable\\nfor the exercise of a discriminating judgment a taste\\ncritically correct in manners and an exquisite sensibili-\\nty of moral propriety as for its lofty assumption of that\\ngrave dignity of character which elevates above the child-\\nish adherence to those solemn triflings, which enchanted\\nthe barbarous and superstitious inheritors of the feudal\\nspectacles which the aristocracy of Europe used as the", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIO TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 15\\nmeans of diverting their vassals from the exercise of that\\ncommon sense, by which the American people commenc-\\ned their career of free inquiry, and by which they have\\nestablished a national character peculiarly original. He\\nmight as well pretend, that Washington danced on the\\nslack rope for the entertainment of the rabble, as that\\ngrave judges, learned lawyers, pious ministers, skilful\\nphysicians, alert chimney sweeps, dignified barbers, and\\nthe whole fraternity of masons, entered and performed in\\nthe puppet show, in an enlightened age, and this, not in\\nthe doubled locked recess of a tavern, but in open day, and\\namid thousands of spectators. In fact, every age, like ev-\\nery shrub, has discriminating characteristics. The pu-\\npils of Linnasus so skilfully arranged the dissimilar parts\\nof different plants, as to form one whose juncture could\\nnot be discerned by the unpractised eye, but the natural-\\nist at once detected incongruities that could not exist in\\nnature. Yet, whoever attempts to contrast the manners\\nof the former with the present times may find in\\nsome fine relics of the formal and dio-nified demeanour\\nthe set, mathematically adjusted bow and courtesy the\\nmeasured step, the polite oblique turn of the body, the\\ncomplimentary address, and the high disdainful toss of\\nthe head, among the men and women of the old school.\\nBut even these will not afford a full picture of the olden\\ntime, for diluted by modern mixtures, the colours are not\\nstrong enough to tinge the whole ground. In other times,\\n(and had this country been acquired by conquest,) these\\nwould have been the magnates, the Dukes, the Barons,\\nthe Lairds whose territories would have stretched from\\nPortsmouth to Boston, from Boston to Wachusett, and\\nfrom Wachusett to the White Hills. The few owners of\\nthe soil, would have transmitted their power to govern\\nand dispose of the many born to serve and, what is", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nmore, would have assumed all the genius and talent\\nwhich prodigal nature now sifts over the very serfs with\\nwhich she has filled the country.\\nAt sun set we arrived at D*** where my friends en-\\ncumbered me with civilities. In the evening I was told\\nthat Capt. Porter was on that station, engaged in making\\ndaily excursions in his steam boat and that a company\\nof the villagers were to make a cruise with him tomor-\\nrow, and that I was to be of the party. In vain did T\\nplead indisposition, engagement, and disinclination. I was\\npromised to be landed at the bridge at Portsmouth, or\\nany where T chose, but go on board we must, or lie and\\nshe and she and he would not go. Besides, Squire S., one\\nof the heads of the town, and even his lady, the minister,\\nthe doctor, and half the selectmen, were going\u00e2\u0080\u0094 nay the\\nS. had sent his commands that the boat should not pro-\\nceed otherwise there was no resisting {he. orders of the\\nrespectable united to the solicitations of the gay and\\namiable so on board we went at 10 o clock, but the tide\\ndid not float the vessel till 12.\\nSuch delays produce a temporary sadness, and never\\nfail to be announced by some superstitious persons as\\nominous. It is certainly annoying, as there is no com-\\nmunion of spirit till the vessel is under way as in our\\nBoston governmental excursions in the harbour, there is\\nno punch till Fort Independence is passed, however long\\nmay be the voyage thither. Capt. Porter promised to re-\\ncompense his delay with a dinner of fresh fish and chow-\\nder at 4 o clock, and till then we were to amuse ourselves\\nas well as we could.\\nThe company consisted of several entire families; some\\nsingle women the Doctor, the methodist minister and his\\nwife, amounting to about 60 persons, accompanied by a\\ndrummer and fifer, and several loungers and attendants.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 17\\nLuckily we had no wits aboard to bespatter the cloth of\\nthe clergyman and no cockney to strut about with his\\ncigar and cane on the contrary, all were rational and or-\\nderly people, determined to please and be pleased.\\nThe first thing requisite is to lose no opportunity in\\nmaking one s self useful the next is to discover by the\\ncountenance and manner of strangers, whether a wish is\\nindicated for further acquaintance.\\nWhen you have once got an opening, you may\\ntake the high road to conversation. The minister soon\\ngave these indications. There was nothing obtrusive,\\nand the liberality of tlie judge, his lady, and fam-\\nily, to whom all due deference was paid, made the\\nconversation lively and pleasant. The day was fine,\\nand the variety of the scenery on both banks of the\\nriver was animating. The whole had a character of ab-\\nsolute beauty, and without being broken or mountainous\\nit was extremely picturesque. What made it more lively\\nand interesting, were the living forms of men, women,\\nand children, singly, and in groups, running down the\\nhills, emerging from the copses and clumps, leaping over\\nrocks and ditches; some popping their heads out from\\ntangles and bushes, and others running along the margin\\nto get a sight of the first steam argonaut that ever navi-\\ngated Piscatuqua river. Jason himself could not have ex-\\ncited more wonderment and the author of the Argo-\\nnautics might have drawn embellishments from the sur-\\nrounding scene.\\nWe passed Portsmouth, and approached the Isle of\\nShoals, when the wind shifted to the east, and blew so\\nstrong and cold as to make it necessary to put about. In\\nthe mean time a boat came along side, with a fine fare of\\nthose delicious fish for which this coast is celebrated.\\n2*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nLeaving the boat where the fish were to be cooked, we\\nlanded and were conducted by the officer on duty round\\nand through the fort. Getting under way again we re-\\npassed Portsmouth. The tables were now arranged, on\\nwhich were soon displayed a variety of cold meats, and a\\nnumber of tureens of hot chowder, served up in excellent\\nstyle. After the repast, it became too cold to remain\\nlong on deck, and the whole company retired to the cab-\\nin not to sleep, nor to play at drafts, or tee-to-tum, nor\\nto discuss political, or religious propositions no, these\\nare subjects for the pleasure parties at Boston What did\\nwe do Why we sung psalms that is, the minister and\\nhis wife, with Hannah, Susan and Eben S. did, what few\\npersons would have ventured to do and the selection\\nwas liberal enough for any Unitarian whatever.\\nThis was as well, if not better, than the customary har-\\nmonious entertainments, on board the annual packets of\\nthe municipality of our cities, where three or four heredi-\\ntary singers were always invited to entertain the company\\nwith the same identical ditties that have been in use on\\nthese occasions, ever since the jolly days of Capt. Kidd.\\nBut since the economical reign of new councils, these\\nfeats have been discontinued and on the several religious\\nsocieties has devolved the task of makincj annual visita-\\ntions to the great deep in a more edifying style.\\nThere were two bridges to pass; night was now ap-\\nproaching, and the last bridge was three miles ahead.\\nThe remaining light barely served to enable the pilot to\\navoid the perilous posts of the draw just beyond which\\nthe vessel struck on a sandbank. All was dismay. Fifty\\nor sixty persons to sleep on board a small vessel, the min-\\nister absent from lecture, the doctor detained from his pa-\\ntients, the squire who had not been abroad, or out of his", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 19\\nbed at dark for some time; all all to be kept from home till\\n4 o clock in the mornincr horrible. In the mean time\\nsome comfort was diffused among the passengers, by the\\nrumour that the good Squire was fast asleep in the cabin,\\nwhile his heroic lady was coolly assisting on deck. The\\npilot and crew kept at work in the water, and after an\\nhour s labour, worked the vessel into the channel, and at\\nlength reached a pier about two miles from the town. Sus-\\npicious of our disaster, horses and carriages were dis-\\npatched from our friends, to convey us home but they\\nhad halted and lay intrenched behind a hill and a wood,\\nso that after landing we had to wind our way through a\\nwet marsh, and a dense wood, covered with dew and\\nclothed with darkness. One gentleman and two ladies,\\nin compassion to a stranger, took me in tow, and just as\\nI was on the point of giving out, we heard footsteps be-\\nhind. A caravan soon approached, each horse having\\ntwo guides, and each carriage containing three, or four,\\nand some, five persons. In one of which I was accommo-\\ndated with three other persons, and arrived merrily at our\\nlodgings.\\nThe two friends who had promised to be of our party,\\nhad been in waiting several hours, and we all adjourned\\nto the house of our friend, where a very social circle was\\nformed. Among the guests, were two members of the\\nNew Hampshire Bar, who had left the Court at to\\naccomplish this visit. They amused us with the recital\\nof some of the many oddities, and peculiarities, of a coun-\\ntry session. E. was peculiarly gay, fluent, and excursive\\nhe delineated character with the accuracy of an engineer\\ndescribed men and manners with the perspicuity of a Lo-\\ngician, and embellished his narratives with the ingenuity\\nand splendors of a poet. He is one of those men whom\\nGodwin would admit to be a man of genius because, in", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nwalking the street, without seeming to observe, he notices\\nmore than common men who profess to see every thing.\\nThe conversation happening to turn on the practice of\\nthe law, one of the company remarked, that in the capi-\\ntal of Massachusetts, strange notions were entertained of\\nNew Hampshire lawyers that they had the character of\\nbeing more expert in detecting flaws, and glossing facts\\nof puzzling judges, and confounding jurors, than the law-\\nyers of Massachusetts, who prided themselves in going\\nstrait forward, without ever attempting to evade evidence,\\nor pervert law. You compliment us on our superior ad-\\ndress, said the other, for which you are entitled to our\\ngratitude, for while you admit, that we show a wonderful\\nexpertness in making the plain intricate, you admit that\\nwe make the intricate plain. But the true reason why\\nthe New Hampshire lawyers have this appearance of\\nsophistry, for it is appearance only, and does not, I con-\\nceive essentially implicate the character of the bar, is,\\nthat the very nature of their business, requires a very dif-\\nferent mode of proceeding, from that of Massachusetts.\\nIn Massachusetts the practice of the law grows out of the\\nknowledge of a methodical science, taught in books, and\\ncommented on, and settled by a permanent judiciary. In\\nNew Hampshire, as in every new state, both the judi-\\nciary and the law, are comparatively, temporary and\\nloose. The principle is to be found in the people them-\\nselves, and derived from the peculiar circumstances of\\nreal property. Land-jobbing was formerly an extensive\\nbusiness and from it, investment has followed invest-\\nment, so that to arrive at a just title to a piece of land, it\\nbecame necessary to institute suit after suit, for as soon as\\none claim was set aside, another would come in, and so\\non, till more money had been spent before a final settle-\\nment was made, than would purchase twenty such estates.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 21\\nNow the man whose title was good, must, in order to re-\\ngain his property, dispossess all that went before, who, in\\ntheir turn, not only defended their spurious titles, but\\nwhen ousted, instituted suits to recover damages. In ad-\\ndition to this, a class of men characteristically named by\\nyour discriminating editors. Squatters, had inserted them-\\nselves into every bosom of the wilderness, and claimed a\\nright of possession and these were to be removed by a le-\\ngal process. Another class likewise, were the cause of\\nmuch litigation, I mean that of Poachers, not on game,\\nbut on the most valuable timber of the forests. Thus a\\nvery great proportion of the people of the state became\\nfamiliar with courts of law, and, unhappily, with its de-\\nlays and the legal means of protraction. Nor was this\\nconfined to real property. For the debtor, learning how\\nto protract payment, began to consider the costs of a law-\\nsuit as nothing more tlu n a commission or interest for\\nthe use of the property v.liich he withheld from his credi-\\ntors. Hence a dereliction of every practicable moral prin-\\nciple. Clients of this description require the utmost sa-\\ngacity in the counsel, and expect that defence be with\\nweapons similar to, and even sharper than those with\\nwhich the attack is made. Hence lawyers acquire acu-\\nmen from exercise. Hence you find at our bar, discrimi-\\nnating talents, that would do honour to Scotus himself.\\nIn fact, in this contest of- intellect, I see little difference\\nin the exercise of the reasoning powers, only in the sub-\\nject matter, between the subtilties of the school-men and\\nthose of the bar-men. Both are pushed to their utmost\\nstrength and while one is at variance with the liberal\\nlogic of modern metaphysics, the other is equally so with\\nthe common sense and straight forward practice of other\\ncourts.\\nBut the spirit of the people must always control, and", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nlawyers are but the organs of public opinion. New Hamp-\\nshire lawyers are thus disciplined in a dialectical rather\\nthan in a rhetorical school yet you will allow, that from\\nthis school have, and still issue, many of the most eloquent\\npleaders, and powerful statesmen that ever adorned the\\nannals of our country. It may be that we are less atten-\\ntive to oratory, or elegance of language than are those who\\nhave to address a more polished audience. We aim at\\nthe language of business and for this purpose have oc-\\ncasion for no other than our vernacular Anojlo-Saxon dia-\\nlect our phrases are therefore familiar to the most illiter-\\nate understanding. It would be ridiculous to adopt the\\nperiodical style of Cicero, which we were compelled to\\nstudy at College or according to Shaftsbury s rule re-\\nstrict the use of monosyllables to nine in a sentence or\\nto speak uniformly in Johnsonian triplets. This idiomat-\\nic language was sufficient for Addison and Swift, and such\\nwe derive from our common education.\\nSo says Sir James,* and so we tIiou|flit before\\nHis commendation makes us love it more.\\nSo our own Orator, who learned, when young,\\nTo use with force his native mother tongue,\\nThe country s currency, and undobased,\\n\\\\A ith foreign mixture, or the pride of taste.\\nHis Salisbury teachers viewed with ridicule,\\nThe splendid pomp of fashion s heartless school\\nWith truth severe, they knew the graceful-art.\\nThrough reason s key to touch the social heart,\\nHe with home-strokes, was never known to fail.\\nFirm to the mast, the union-flag to nail\\nIn observation curious, speech congise,\\nHis words arrest us, and his thoughts surprise;\\nBe it a flash, it leaves a spark behind.\\nThat kindles, and illuminates mankind.\\nD. has an excellent soil, but the inhabitants of the vil-\\nlage blend the occupation of the farmer with that of the\\ntrader, and thus bestow little attention to as^ricultural im-\\nprovement.\\nSir J. Mackintosh.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 23\\nFormerly ship building, and the fishery employed many\\nhands; both of these occupations have almost ceased.\\nThe communication with the Isle of Shoals was so easy,\\nthat a very considerable part of the fish cured there, was\\nexported from this place. But the Isle of Shoals, which\\nwas once the sixth on the tax book of Massachusetts is\\nnow comparatively poor. In this country there is no\\nknowinof when barrenness will end. The hundreds of\\nmanufacturing establishments that have sprung up within\\na few years in the most neglected wastes, lead us to\\nthink the fishery of the Isle of Shoals will again be the\\ncontributor of subsistence for the people of manufactur-\\ning establishments.\\nThe old people manifest a great affection for their\\ntownsman, one of the most popular and patriotic Gener-\\nals of the revolutionary army. They say, and they say\\ntruly, that nothing short of absolute necessity, could have\\nswayed the General to violate his well known principles\\nof humanity, in destroying the Indian orchards; and\\nthey attribute it to the imperious circumstances of the\\ncase, or the most positive orders of the government. The\\nlines of a newspaper poem, on this subject, say\\nNo, tis not the savage, but the civilized man,\\nThe subject of culture, improvement, and plan,\\nWho, what takes an age of forbearance to rear,\\nDestroys in a moment of caprice or fear.\\nO! Pro[)het of Israel twas truly divine,\\nTo guard from destruction the nest and the vine\\nAnd false was the maxim, and foul was the deed.\\nThe orchard to foil, lest the savage should feed.\\nThe fields that are cultured and worth our enjoying,\\nDeter us from wars at the risk of destroying\\nThe way to make savage hostility cease.\\nIs to give him a country that s worthy of peace.\\nBut when all his comforts are hung on his back.\\nYou feel when he strikes, but you know not his track\\nHis couch is the mountain, his course is the river.\\nIn thunder he moves, and in lightning he shivers.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nEXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nAt this rate we shall never get on to Winnipiseogee.\\nWere I a Statist, or curious in political economy, I might\\nhave some excuse for this delay even were I a man of\\nletters, my desultory remarks and slow progress might be\\nexcusable. But I think not what I shall write, but write\\nwhat I think. I came from the city expecting to find the\\nresidence of health in the Switzerland of New England.\\nShe met me on the road, and informed me that she was a\\nUbiquitary. Hence we may conclude that Abernethy s\\nblue-pills dig in vain for her in the cavities of the stom-\\nach. The seat of health, says Abernethy, is the\\nstomach and the legion of disease must be driven out\\nby the blue-pill. Yet the blue-pill, does not remove idle-\\nness, which Jeremy Taylor discovered to be the Devil s\\npillow; nor prevent gluttony and repletion, the great en-\\ngenderers of disease and therefore does not reach the\\ncause. But, with Bacon, he assigns another and sounder\\nreason, and makes mental exercise as necessary to health\\nand longevity, as bodily exercise. Bacon declares that\\nnature forces upon us the pleasures of existence, of which\\nwe may be insensible at the very time we enjoy them.\\nShe provides for the future, both pleasures and pains;\\nand it should be the main business of a wise man s life,\\nto gather the one and avoid the other to gather the food\\nof health and keep the moral faculties pure and free from\\nevery particle of irritation, so that the soul may always\\nbe supreme surveying with satisfaction her own stores,\\nand gratifying imagination with multiplying pictures c.\\nBut Bacon was a poet, for, he accommodates the show\\nof things to the desires of men s minds. Yet he was a\\nphilosopher of genius, and condenses poetry in an apho-\\nrism and thus provides for every disease of the body, and\\nevery defect of the mind. But Bacon, says a learned re-\\nviewer, left no system to Ipe studied as a guide. Yet", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 25\\nBacon raised the scaffolding, by means of which all mod-\\nern science is built. And Bacon, says a moralist, was\\na time-server, and therefore not to be trusted as a guide\\nto truth. Still he was a philosopher, and what is better,\\na philosopher unshackled by theory. Bacon s feet were\\nin the bird lime of the age his head was in the sky,\\nand his wings expanded over the earth. The spirit of\\nthe age always has some hold on the genius that is capa-\\nble of soaring above and beyond it.\\nTo return to health. There is an artificial cure for ev-\\nery disease that is fashionable. Just now, Liverwort is\\nin high repute. A few years ago album grecum was in\\ngreat request. Tis only about twenty years since the te-\\npid bath was introduced. We grow wise by experience.\\nPhysicians formerly held the cold bath to be bracing, and\\nthe warm bath debilitating. Since Count Rumford\\nwrote, the warm bath is found to be bracing, notwith-\\nstanding it has been assigned as the primary cause of the\\ncorruption of the luxurious Asiatics and the remote cause\\nof the downfall of the Roman empire.\\nWhen I met health on the road, I understood that she\\nprescribed no other regime than regular, sound, and easy\\nsleep of six hours in twenty four, and to obtain this, re-\\nquired the exercise of all the faculties of the body, and a\\nperfect freedom of the mind from every perturbation.\\nWith this assurance we took our departure, from the vil-\\nlage where we had rested.\\nWe expected convoy, but our friends could not leave\\nthe causes of their clients, and instead of accompanying\\nus, returned to We had letters of introduction to\\nseveral gentlemen whose seats were to be passed, but we\\ndid not use any of them. It may seem churlish to spurn\\n.h6spitality but excess of civility is often inconvenient.\\nNo people in the world are more sincere, not only in giv-\\n3", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\ning a welcome to visitors, but in loading them with atten-\\ntions. Those who have been accustomed to French so-\\nciety, seem to have acquired a distaste for that of every\\nother country. In France, or on the continent, says\\nan elegant observer, society is one of the greatest luxu-\\nries it is in fact an- interchange of polite vanity and as\\nit is itself so great an enjoyment, it constitutes a principal\\nobject. This is meant to apply to the higher kind of so-\\nciety, but even among the peasantry the same spirit pre-\\nvails.\\nThey please, are pleased, they give to get esteem.\\nTill seeming blessed, they grow to what they seem.\\nIn England, says the same English observer, com-\\nfort, the boast of an Englishman s language and life, con-\\nsists in homCy and a consciousness that he is not obliged\\nto entertain any body, but gratify his pride, and his hos-\\npitality by giving a dinner or a supper.\\nIn this country, neither the polite servility or vanity of\\nthe French, nor the pride and reserve of the English, is\\nto be found. A genuine, sincere, frank, and almost offen-\\nsive earnestness prevails. And he that feels and appre-\\nciates not the goodness of heart that exists under this ob-\\ntrusive exterior, had better remain at home. It will be\\nlong before we reach the true point of perfection which\\nold Homer has so well expressed, as constituting the fine\\nrule of intercourse.\\nAlike he thwarts the hospitable end,\\nWho drives the free, or stays the hasty friend\\nTrue friendship s laws, are by this rule expressed,\\nWelcome the coming, speed the parting guest.\\nOne class of travellers appear to be much disappointed\\nin not meeting with what they are pleased to call, a nat-\\nural state of society. By which they mean a kind of\\nArcadian simplicity, such as poets and novelists have de-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 27\\npicted in a golden age. Such States, if even they had a\\nreal existence, cannot now be found in Europe and if\\nihey could be found, how much would the charms of poet-\\nry, and the animation of romance, be diminished by the\\nreality 1 How narrowed would be the field which now af-\\nfords such excursive ranges to the imagination All ac-\\nknowledge and feel, that fiction can transplant us from the\\ncares of life, to something freer, and better, and holier\\nthan the present affords. All know that passion is con-\\ntrolled by the magic of numbers that sorrow is solaced,\\nand satiety relieved, by the variety of well told adventures\\nthat the soul is exalted by delineations of noble thought\\nand lofty bearing and the moral sense is awakened and\\nharmonized into a benevolence more honourable to hu-\\nmanity than is recognized in the ordinary occurrenciesof\\nlife but most forget, that these effects belong less to a\\nstate of nature, than a state of refinement. It is vain for\\nthem therefore to turn to a new country for a society im-\\ncorrupted by the arts and refinements of civilized life.\\nHere are no pastoral occupants no shepherds watching\\ntheir flocks, while stretched beneath the spreading oak\\nno swains piping to their loves beside a warbling brook\\nno rural fetes, innocent merriments, rustic sports, harm-\\nless superstitions, traditionary talcs that lull the villagers\\nasleep, nor any of that naivete which excites laughter, and\\ncharacterizes the Doric peasantry. They forget likewise\\nthat such scenes are best sought among an old stationary\\npeople, and not with a people on the march, whose home\\nhours are full of business, and who are yet on the borders\\nof that promised land to which the whole society is tend-\\ning.\\nOn a good road, through a hilly country, we advanced\\ntowards the mountainous region. Wild and picturesque\\nviews were perpetually rising into notice. Before night", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 _ EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nwe arrived at Guilford and took lodgings at Bado-er s hotel.\\nGuilford is united to Meredith by a bridge thrown across\\nthe river that issues from the great lake. The two villa-\\nges seem to form one town, both equally pretty and thriv-\\ning. Guilford being the shire town where the County-\\ncourts are held and Meredith possesses some manufac-\\ntories. The streets are broad the houses well built and\\nuniformly painted, making a beautiful show as you de-\\nscend from the hills. This beauty is blemished by the\\nneglect which is apparent on approaching the two public\\nbuildings, the Court house and the Church. These are in\\ngood style of architecture, but are decaying for want of a\\ncoat of paint. We felt indignant at this deficiency of pub-\\nlic spirit, in a place that displayed so much private afflu-\\nence and taste and as two beautiful ladies passed over\\nthe steps on which we stood, we requested them to at-\\ntempt a removal of this shameful negligence, by using\\ntheir well known influence to induce the gentlemen to be\\nat a small expense, for the honor of the town. The la-\\ndies were instantaneous in the business, and in twenty\\nminutes some gentlemen came up and thanked us for our\\nremarks, saying, the notice of strangers would have more\\ninfluence upon the inhabitants, than any thing they could\\nsay that a subscription for the purpose had been made,\\nbut was yet inadequate and that the neglect was not ow-\\ning to any want of public spirit, but to the jealousy that\\nexisted between the County and Town party, with respect\\nto the County location.\\nThe afternoon, though rainy, did not prevent the sports-\\nmen from practising their favourite art of angling. Lines\\nand rods were obtained, and a mess of excellent trout,\\nwith several large pickerel, and several other kinds of fish\\ncame in before night. It is well for the fish that they\\nnever navigate in the water near Boston. Winnipiseogee", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WlNNlPlSEOGEE. 29\\nis too remote. Our sportsmen who sit under a burning\\nsun four or five hours to capture a few breams at Ponta-\\npog, or sojourn in the swamps of Sandwich, for the sake of a\\nfew trout or stand on one of the bridges in heat or cold,\\nin sunshine or snow watching and sometimes taking,\\nbass, smelts, and flounders, would soon depopulate both\\nthe riv^ and the lake. For variety of fish, and diversity\\nof water, few sites can equal that of Guilford and Mere-\\ndith. You may go on the lake in a boat with sails or\\noars and drop your lead in deep water and you may\\nstand on the bridge or on the bank, or by walking half a\\nmile, walk on the border of cold streams with a fly bait,\\nand a trailing line, and be sure of filling your basket in a\\nshort time. Tiie towns likewise furnish good accommo-\\ndations, so that those who are fond of this exercise, might\\nhere enjoy it through the year besides, might find socie-\\nty that is intelligent and agreeable, in the intervals.\\nThrough the whole of this route, the land is remarkably\\nfruitful and while Massachusetts is almost destitute of\\napples. New Hampshire enjoys an abundance.\\nOn the 25th we left Meredith, after visiting the very\\nthriving manufacturing establishments of Mr. A. There\\nis no joint stock company with its multitude of agencies,\\nin and abroad. Tis but a few years, since the owner\\nand conductor of this establishment was a small trader.\\nHe began with a few spindles; enlarged with great care\\nhis own house built a convenient store kept extending\\nfrom time to time and in thirteen years was master and\\nowner of a very respectable manufactory, conducted under\\nthe management of himself and his sons, who at this time\\nare preparing to erect another and a larger house.\\nI suppose it may be explained, for philosophy attempts\\nto explain every phenomenon but I have never met with\\nany notice of the singular appearance on the surface of\\n3*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nthe earth, when viewed from the window of a running ve-\\nhicle. There appears a stratum unconnected, but pas-\\nsing rapidly over the surface in a contrary direction, to\\nthat of the carriage, while the earth beneath is stationary.\\nWhether the like separation appears while we pass on the\\nwater and the trees seem to move I cannot say. Has it\\nany affinity with the mirage by which we seem to be close\\non Ontario, when many miles distant\\nThe road hence to the Lake, about thirteen miles, is\\nextremely hilly. The variety of the scenery, hill, water,\\nmountain, and valley, so completely engaged my atten-\\ntion, that I was not aware of any danger, till our horses\\nmade a sudden halt at the foot of a precipice. We were\\nimmediately congratulated by some countrymen, on our\\nescape from such imminent danger. Our driver to oblige\\na friend, had attached two horses to his team of four, and\\nin descending the last long and steep hill, lost all power\\nof checking or directing their course. So rapid was their\\nflight, a man driving a light wagon over a short bridge,\\nseeing our carriage descending, stood motionless with af-\\nfright, and we passed him with the rapidity of lightning,\\nwithin an inch or two, of his wheels, while our off wheels\\nleft their traces just within the verge of the plank of\\nthe bridge. In Connecticut, before descending such\\nmountainous roads, the wheels are locked yet these hills,\\nsteep and tremendous as they are, are hourly passed by\\nmen and women in a chaise and one horse, on a steady\\ntrot so sure footed are the beasts that are bred among the\\nmountains.\\nThe great Lake at length came in view and descend-\\ning the southern hill, we entered the village of Senter\\nHarbour, situate on a cove at the extremity of the\\nLake.\\nA Mr. Senter was the first settler on this spot and", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 31\\nwhen the petition for an act of incorporation was present\\ned to the Legislature, it was proposed that it should bear\\nhis name. Whether the Legislature supposed this place\\nto be the centre of the world or whether the learned\\nclerk, who drew the bill, supposed the petitioner igno-\\nrant of orthography, is unknown but certain it is, that\\nMr. S. was deprived of that distinction and chance for\\nimmortality, which he deserved for his enterprising spirit\\nand perseverance for at that time a settlement in this,\\nthen wilderness, was a bold and hazardous undertakinof.\\nThe stage stopped at the tavern a. house not very in-\\nviting either by its exteriour, or its community. We\\nwere enjoined to put up at Senter s hotel and when we\\ninquired for the place were very reluctantly told, that,\\nSenter s house was on the other quarter. To another\\nquarter we went, and soon found a new and well appoint-\\ned house.\\nThe landlord ushered us into a very commodious apart-\\nment, and learning that we intended sojourning with\\nhim a few days, directed a servant to give us the choice\\nof any bed rooms that were unoccupied.\\nWe have known men of the highest talents, and em-\\ninent pleaders, totally fail, and disappoint high-raised\\nexpectation, when transferred from their own Bar, to a\\nLegislative assembly. Even the bold and impetuous G.\\nH. who overrules a club or a caucus, by his rattling and\\naudacious eloquence, becomes a perfect mute under the\\nparliamentary order that prevails in a city council. So\\nwomen, who at home appear to possess all the estimable\\nqualities that are required to conduct a domestic estab-\\nlishment with the utmost elegance and grace, seem to\\nloose all their self possession, ease of manner, and inde-\\npendence of thought, when introduced to the polished\\ncircles of fashionable cities.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nWe were told by some of our city female friends, that\\nwe should meet with fair damsels who would amuse us,\\nif not provoke our ridicule, by their awkward attempts to\\nappear elegant in manners, and sentimental in conversa-\\ntion. That they would sing Moore, spout Byron, and\\nquote Scott. But these our friends had not seen these\\nfair damsels at home and at ease, or were accustomed to\\nmeasure other people by their own partial standard of ex-\\ncellence.\\nHome is really t le only place in which the heart has\\nits peculiar sphere of action. From home, every thing is\\nexternal every movement is measured every word is\\nweighed and every attempt to conform to the prevailing\\nmode shows something unnatural and even the most\\nsuccessful attempt is not divested of an air of affectation.\\nBut at home, with a proper knowledge of their own af-\\nfairs free from all factitious restraint, these rustic dam-\\nsels, delighted us by their energy their simplicity their\\ncourteous ease with the pleasantness, and correctness\\nwith which they received and treated their visitants.\\nThere was no embarrassment; no attempt to shovv off;\\nno awkwardness; no arrogance; no consciousness of\\nshrinking, timid inferiority.\\nMiss Hardcastle stooped to conquer, but a Chancellor\\nand a Bishop were conquered by the very kind of bar-\\nmaids whose character Miss H. had to assume. A strong\\nmind loses none of its native delicacy by collision with\\nthe world, as a discriminating taste is formed, not solely\\nby the inspection of pure models. The most discreet, at\\nthe same time most polite women, are those who have\\nassociated with large and mixed companies of men as well\\nas of women. If Mrs. Montague acquired, as she says\\nshe did, her great power of thinking, and her ready power\\nof expressing her thoughts to the requirement of her fa-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 33\\nther in law Doc. Middleton, tliat she should be present\\nat the conversation of his learned friends, and afterwards\\nreport and review the subjects of their conversation at the\\nfamily hearth the bar-maids of some hotels enjoy the\\nlike opportunity of gathering materials for reflection,\\nthough perhaps of a less refined nature. Few could have\\ngiven us a more courteous reception, and shown a more\\npolite address, than did the females of this establishment.\\nA North Carolina planter, with his fair daughter, who\\nhad resided here a week, were now about to depart. A\\nshort interchange of civilities led to conversation, and\\nthat conversation to regrets that we were so soon to sep-\\narate. They had travelled all summer dow they meant\\nto cross the White hills, pass along Connecticut river,\\nlook at the transparent Lake George, and visit Niagara,\\nin a week. A long journey for so short a time. The\\nnatural curiosities of that region are worthy of longer ob-\\nservation. You there will tread on a vast Gazometer\\ntake care that you do not fall through. What mean\\nyou V said the- gentleman. Call on Mrs. Steel at the\\nmill in Chippeway, and she may cause the river to be set\\non fire, for the amusement of the young lady, your daugh-\\nter. Still I must repeat the question, what mean you\\nLook, and you may see bubbles on the surface of the\\nwater they are filled with Hydrogen gas perforate the\\ncrust of the earth and the same gas will issue through\\nthe aperture, both will blaze on the application of a light-\\ned candle. How long will the cavity continue to af-\\nford the ijas How lon^j will Etna and Vesuvius\\ncontinue to burn They are of a different structure.\\nPerhaps it would be as correct to say, there is a differ-\\nent modification of matter. But Etna throws out sul-\\nphur in flame, which cannot be like this gas. Leave\\nthat to chemists. Perhaps in this great laboratory of", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE\\nnature, hydrogen gas will continue to be made by the\\ndecomposition of water, till the subterranean inlets are\\nclosed, and then the eruptions of Etna may cease. If\\nthis hydrogen proceeds from water, I do not see but that\\nthe gas of Chippeway may continue while the river and\\nthe lakes furnish that fluid in which case, may not\\nmeans be devised for conducting it to Albany or New\\nYork, as we now do the water of the lake, by means of\\ncanals what a magnificent project worthy of Alexander\\nhimself Hydrogen gas generated at the region of the\\ngreat falls, conducted through tubes 500 miles supplying\\nthe country through which it passed, and illuminating the\\ngreat cities! well, 1 do not despair of any thing. The\\ngentleman was no theorist, but there is no doubt of his\\ncommunicating the idea, so that it will fall on some tin-\\nder-like brain, and make a fine blaze. Many a theory\\nhas been raised on as airy a base and Americans are\\nsaid to be peculiarly ingenious in extracting from the\\nmost absurd theories, some hint for useful inventions.\\nThe living beings were not the only good things to be\\nfound here. The house was new and neat the furniture\\ngood and the provision all that ought to be expected at\\nthis season and we had but two artificial people, in a com-\\npany of fourteen. Fastidious people should never travel.\\nAt Scituate in Rhode Island, our party stopped at Fish-\\ner s about dinner time. Two very fine gentlemen were\\nwhipping their boots at the door. We called for dinner.\\nThe gentlemen observed, that we probably could not\\nhave any thing fit to eat, for the men had all gone to\\ntown meeting, and the landlady was dumpish and alone.\\nThey had been waiting an hour, and could not get any\\nthing. We however procured a good dinner, in very\\ngood season and one of the gentlemen whispered, we\\nare indebted to you for this entertainment loe gave or-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 35\\nDERS, supposing we had a riglit to command a licensed\\nInn keeper you made a request, as though you asked\\na favour. If reproach was intended, let those laugh who\\nwin. So much for civility. A little more than civility\\nhowever is useful a determination to be contented, and\\nto enjoy, even the variety if it be of paucity, which the\\nworld presents.\\nTwo of the native boarders, Doct. M. and Lawyer T.,\\nboth very intelligent men, became very useful guides in\\nall our excursions in this mountainous region.\\nSenter Harbour is situate on a cove at the western ex-\\ntremity of the Lake. The house stands at the foot of a\\nhigh hill, on a gentle slope, bordering the lake about 100\\nrods distant. There are many sites more beautiful and\\nromantic, but few so convenient for use or pleasure. The\\ngreat road from Vermont passes through the village, and\\nthus makes it a thorough-fare for business and for pleas-\\nure, it presents a fine sheet of water in the midst of moun-\\ntains, and diversified by villages, meadows, and project-\\ning points of land, covered with forest trees. Directly in\\nfront of the house is an almost level tract capable of be-\\ning converted into a garden, the alleys of which might\\nterminate on a pier or platform, where ladies might en-\\njoy the cool and refreshing breezes from the water, or\\namuse themselves by fishing under awnings. In cold\\ndays the walks might be screened from the winds that\\nsweep down from the mountains, and which might be in-\\ntercepted by plantations of evergreens. Fir trees, which\\nare indigenous, would admirably suit this purpose and\\nbesides their perennial verdure, while every kind of forest\\ntree collects, retains, and sheds a chilly moisture, in\\naddition to the soft carpet which its fallen, but undecay-\\ned leaves forms on the earth, gives out balsamic exuda-\\ntions, not only to perfume, but to give a genial warmth to", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nthe air. Hence a residence in the midst of a forest of\\nFir trees, must be far more salubrious, especially for in-\\nvalids, than one amidst branching oaks and chesnuts.\\nAll travellers urge the proprietor to convert this spot\\ninto a garden, and assure him that it is the only improve-\\nment wanted, to make this little village as lovely a sum-\\nmer retreat, as invalids or parties of pleasure could desire.\\nLake Ontario and Erie, -are in the midst of a level coun-\\ntry; Winnipiseogee is in the bosom of mountains; hence\\nthe scenery is various and highly picturesque.\\nIt is said, that the lake contains at least 300 islands;\\nwhether the number be less or more, those are sufficient\\nto give variety and interest to water excursions. Besides,\\nthose who deligfht in fishinfj as well as in sailincr would\\nhere find ample encouragement to renew the exercise\\nan encouragement which is often wanted, since it is a\\ngreat trial of their patience to feel scarcely a nibble dur-\\ning a four hours excursion on the salt water of the Bay\\nof Massachusetts.\\nPrevious to the Revolution, Gov. Wentworih had a seat\\nat Wolfborough, on the N. E. side of the lake. Since his\\ntime it has had many owners, none of whom had much\\npublic spirit. The Governor caused that species of cod-\\nfish, called the cusk, (said to be a scarcer and richer fish\\nthan the cod) to be transported to this lake, where, con-\\ntrary to the predictions of the learned and the unlearned,\\nit lived and multiplied.\\nNature, said Brindley, the original projector of English\\ncanals, deposited water in reservoirs of lakes to supply fu-\\nture canals. Nature, says the manufacturer, made these\\ndeposits for the purpose of machinery. But if Nature had\\nany forecast of these works of art, it seems to have been\\na secondary consideration, and that these waters should\\nbe thus applied, only when her original purpose was ac-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 37\\ncomplished, and they had become superfluous and this\\noriginal purpose was to supply food for her human pop-\\nulation.\\nThe savages hence drew their sustenance and the\\nwhite people found here a supply before they ground corn\\nand salted pork for their winter use. But the original stock\\nwas small, and rapidly diminished as the population in-\\ncreased yet man neglected to replenish these wastes of\\nwater with emigrants, from an opinion that fish would\\nnot live under any change of temperature.\\nAs well might you say a Frenchman would not live in\\nCanada, nor a German in Pennsylvania, as that a fish of\\nthe salt ocean could not live in a fresh water lake. Be-\\nsides the numerous kinds of fish that alternate between\\nthe sea and ponds, the experiment has been tried in vari-\\nous countries, with success, and proved beyond a doubt,\\nthat salt water fish will live and breed and thrive in fresh\\ninland waters. Whether Gov. Wentworth was influenced\\nby philosophical considerations, or merely the whim of a\\nman of pleasure, his experiment completely succeeded.\\nDid I reside near the Lake I would stock it not only\\nwith several kinds of swimming fish, but with stationary\\nclams and oysters, and even assign the rocky bottonis to\\nshrimps and lobsters. I would cultivate, as the Legislator\\nsaid, the waste water. The principal and only difficulty\\nwould be in the preservation of the stock from the depre-\\ndations of the Yankees; for wherever they go, they exhaust,\\nby their energy, or cupidity, the productions of earth and\\nsea.\\nGen. Burbeck, the military commander at Michilimacki-\\nnac, told me, that the fish of that lake would supply an\\nabundant population with food, and be the means of in-\\nviting settlers into that country, if the provision was re-\\nstricted to home-consumption. But that during the term\\n4", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nof his residence on that station (3 years) the fish had evi-\\ndently diminished, in consequence of the immense depre-\\ndations of fishermen employed by the traders, who export-\\ned a vast quantity. In short, said he, tell a Yankee\\nof a Beaver station, or a fish pond, and he will destroy the\\nstock with thoughtless avidity.\\nOn the guide-post opposite my window, are the follow-\\ning notations\\nFryeburg, 40 miles.\\nPortland, 70\\nPortsmouth, 65\\nMeredith, 13\\nConcord, 40\\nBoston, 100\\nWinnipiseogee river flowing from this lake, enters the\\nMerrimack at or near Pembroke. Two canals are pro-\\nposed, one to the Merrimack and one to Dover. The lat-\\nter is generally preferred on account of its vicinity to the\\nsea, and that it will pass directly to the great manufactur-\\ning establishments of Dover and Somersworth. Capt.\\nPorter proposes establishing his steamboat on the lake\\nto be connected with the canal.\\nSome years hence, this lake, so near the Capital and ex-\\ntending so far into the heart of the Country, and contigu-\\nous to a chain of smaller lakes, must become of immense\\nimportance to agriculture and commerce. Its banks, and\\nthe banks of the smaller lakes, will be covered with villa-\\nges and population while a thousand mill streams will\\nbe drawn off to work the machinery of numerous manu-\\nfactories. Guilford already wants such a mode of con-\\nveyance for its treasury of excellent iron.\\nThe lake is 472 feet above the level of the ocean, and\\n232 above the Merrimack, and between Meredith and the\\nMr. Giles of Detroit took in one seine, in two nights, 4700 white fish, equal\\nto 816 barrels. Columbian Centinel, April 26, 1828.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 39\\nMerrimack, a distance of twenty-one miles are only ten\\nfalls.\\nThe makers of books of travels often confound times\\nand seasons, by copying what belongs to one age as char-\\nacteristic of another. Manners, though not so changea-\\nble as women s dresses, yet change once an age and he\\nwho takes his descriptions of the present age from Dan-\\nton^ or Robine, or Rouchefocault, will give very false por-\\ntraits. Specimens of former times are to be seen in all\\ncountries, but they are varieties curiosities of antiquity,\\nto be examined and admired by antiquarians. Such has\\nbeen the interchange of modern times such the commer-\\ncial intercourse and so generally and strongly has the\\nmigrating spirit prevailed, that scarcely any part of the\\npopulation remains stationary, except the elderly inhabi-\\ntants of old villages.\\nThe older towns on the sea-coast, send their young men\\nand -women into the wilderness, where they are obliged\\nby the nature of the circumstances, to adopt new modes,\\nand practise substitutions for conveniences they have aban-\\ndoned.\\nIn the old settlements every thing partakes of decay\\nthe soil is much exhausted the houses are out of repair\\nthe spirit of the people is depressed. In the new, all is\\nfresh, vigorous and improving even religion, the pre-\\ndominating principle of the old, though it seem to hang\\nmore loosely, is more practicable, and, perhaps, as fer-\\nvent in the new settlement. Yet writers of tours and\\ntravels, harp on the peculiarities of our puritan ances-\\ntors, and gravely talk of prejudices and customs, which\\nare far more common in England, their birth place, than\\nin this country, at this day.\\nFrom the infancy of the country, political inquiry, and\\npolitical discussion, have been popular and general intel-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nJectual exercises. The principle, that enlightened men\\nonly, can endure political freedom, where individual con-\\nvenience must be the voluntary sacrifice to the general\\ngood, is fully recognized. From this principle proceeds\\nthat attention to education which prepares the mind of\\nyouth rightly to estimate his own interest in the general\\nwelfare of the community. Hence he is accustomed to\\nexamine and to require the reason for all public acts\\nand thus he acquires the habit of rejecting in his private\\nconcerns and opinions, every thing not corresponding\\nwith the dictates of common sense, or the conclusions of\\nlegitimate reasoning.\\nHence superstition gains no ground and hence a very\\ngeneral rejection, among the men at least of those relig-\\nious dogmas, which a good Catholic might admit, be-\\ncause they are mysterious. Yet there is no question\\nthat dogmas are better for those who can digest nothing\\nelse, than unbelief Ignorant people in rejecting dogmas\\nfall into infidelity. Men of understanding, in rejecting\\ndogmas adopt liberal sentiments and liberal sentiments\\nin religion, necessarily warm the heart, cherish the aflfec-\\ntions and influence the conduct. Women, on the con-\\ntrary, more susceptible and less accustomed to reason\\ndeeply, give up their whole souls to what strongly affects\\nthe heart hence religion with them is a sentiment,\\nwhich like love, rejects all doubt, and suffers no analyzing\\nprocess to disturb and cool its confiding Hiith. They are\\nof course most liable to be influenced by address and en-\\nthusiasm, and what Bishop Jeremy Taylor applied to the\\nwomen of his day, may, perhaps, with equal propriety, be\\napplied to our own times The cunning sects, (Jesuits\\nand Presbyterians) prevailed more by whispering to ladi^es,\\nthan all the church of England, and the more sober prot-\\nestants could do by fine force, and strength of argument.\\n1", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO VVINNIPISEOGEE. 41\\nSaturday night came, but with it no such straight ob-\u00c2\u00bb\\nservance, as some have noted as peculiar to New Eng-\\nland. The family and the guests enjoyed a social musi-\\ncal evening. On Sunday, part of our company rode to\\nMoultonborough, to unite in public worship part made\\nan excursion to Red Hill. I sauntered to the side of the\\nlake, towards which I saw a boat approaching. Four\\nmen dressed as laborers, composed the crew. After\\nmaking fist, they landed, and seemed prepared to wait\\nleisurely for others who were expected to proceed with\\nthem about twenty five miles on the lake. I fell into\\nconversation with them, and learned much concerning\\nthe navigation and the country. One man was uncom-\\nmonly intelligent. He had travelled and observed much\\nknew not only the geography of the United States very\\nminutely, but appeared completely at home, when speak-\\ning of the characters of our eminent men, who had been,\\nor were now engaged in the concerns of the States, and\\nof the country. Had he been in Congress? No. In\\nthe Legislative assembly of New Hampshire No. Well,\\nthought 1, many a less knowing man has occupied a seat\\nin both those bodies. He seemed to make an excuse for\\nthus deviating from the customary employment of the\\nSabbath. Whatever may be my own opinions, said\\nhe, nothing but necessity should induce me to set be-\\nfore my children any example of disregard and disrespect\\nto the established customs of my ancestors. Besides,\\nboth in religion and politics, however we may change in\\ndoctrines, early associations and impressions retain a se-\\ncret, [ind I presume, a beneficial influence, by rendering\\nus more earnest in search of truth, and more critical in\\nexami.-ing opinions. He spoke of the new minister of\\nM., wv-om our friends had gone to hear, as a very good\\nman^ out more zealous for points of doctrine, than refor-\\n4*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nmation in morals observing that the epistle of James,\\nwas of more value, than all the sermons that had ever\\nbeen published. He, he said, had learned his religion\\nin the woods, and in the world. New Hampshire,\\nsaid he, is reprobated by your missionaries for its impie-\\nty by your liberals for its zeal, the first applies to the\\nmen, the second to the women. Yet they both spring\\nfrom religious feelings. What appears impious, is a de-\\ntestation of such repulsive doctrines as are preached by\\nfanatics and zeal is the ebulition of pious emotions.\\nDogmatism and mystery are repulsive. Doctrines that\\ndo no violence to common sense, enlighten the under-\\nstanding, and warm the heart and common sense is al-\\nways teachable. When we look on nature, every thing is\\ncharacterized by benevolence of design. When we hear\\nyour missionaries, all is gloom and horror. Man is in-\\nstructed to believe prayer to be the sole object or occupa-\\ntion of life. He who follows the instructions of such mis-\\nsionaries must forego all other labour. Discord in fami-\\nlies ensues, and doubts and terror shake the minds of the\\nweaker sex. The catholic has a remedy; his confessions\\nare followed by absolution, and his doubt has an end he\\nbelieves in modern miracles, he believes in mystery, he\\nbelieves in saintly and invisible agency. The Quaker si-\\nlently meditates till his heart is warmed, and the true\\nspirit of devotion has descended upon him. The method-\\nist beats himself into fervour. The Swedenborgian\\nhas visions and communion with glorified beings. These\\nall have the poetry of religion. All the rest are fiery fan-\\natics, abstract metaphysical theorists, or cold reasoners.\\nYet the latter often enjoy gentle inspirations, that refresh\\nand invigorate, and send them back among their fellow\\nbeings warm, cheerful, and benevolent. Revelation be-\\ncomes the interpreter of nature. The mystics, on the\\ncontrary, of every description, are under perpetual dread^", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 43\\nand hence are forced into action to drown their sense of\\nmisery for miserable are their feelings, and doubtful\\nare there hopes. See here continued he, takino\\nfrom his pocket several tracts, what pitiful tales you\\nscatter through the country making our women tremble,\\nand filling our children with dread, I wish Congress\\nwould establish a board for the diffusion of useful knowl-\\nedge, and fill the space these missionary tracts now occu-\\npy in the national post bags, with a weekly paper exclu-\\nsively appropriated to subjects of domestic utility, and\\ncarried free of charge to every man s door.\\nBut religious tracts are not the only benefits you at-\\ntempt to confer on us. Here are your political pamphlets,\\nwithout cost, instructing us in our rights that is, in the\\nview of a party. It seems as though your Bay-folks\\nthought, all sense and knowledge belonged to them. Did\\nknowledge however depend on their books, or indeed on\\nany books, we should have few practical Legislators. It\\nis a mistake that learning must meet learning in State af-\\nfairs. The man was right who said, ordinary men of plain\\ncommon sense were the wisest Governors and that those\\nhave been the best ministers who rested on downrio-ht\\ncommon sense to baffle the arts of the most skilful dip-\\nlomatist. In our corporations of states, those are the\\nsafest Legislators who avoid the involvements of law. The\\nless learning, the greater the observation, greater origi-\\nnality of thought, less doubt, more judicious decision,\\ngreater developement of genius, more exact judgment,\\nmore judicious adaptation of expedients. Whoever fol-\\nlows the writers, must al^ways have precedents for lead-\\nincp strings.\\nA little popular learning makes men conceited a lim-\\nited range of observation, intolerably dull, or monotonous.\\nOur men of business, when advanced to the Legislature,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nmake business speeches our orators steal there ideas\\nand expand them, as boys expand soap bubbles, round,\\nlight and glittering. Yet after all, the clown of observa-\\ntion is. the single minded judge. He judges of every\\nmeasure of Government by applying it to himself he\\nwoikrf hard for his money, he feels that he has a right to\\nreap the reward of his own industry consequently that\\nhis right is infringed, whenever the Legislature demands\\nmore than is sufficient for the necessary purposes of Gov-\\nernment. Hence he considers restrictions and bounties\\nas impolitic and partial. Impolitic, because they pro-\\nduce an unnatural extension of manufactures, which are\\nliable to be destroyed by succeeding Legislatures, and\\nthus distress a body of people, who have been diverted\\nfrom their proper employment by fallacious prospects, of\\nsubsistence or wealth. Plants that require a hot-bed can\\nnever become the ordinary articles of the field culture.\\nAnd they are partial, because they give a bounty to the\\nfew at the expense of the many.\\nEquality is destroyed, when the people are compelled to\\npurchase of monopolists and any manufacture that will\\nnot support itself is premature. A free competition with\\nother nations is the best security for manufacturers\\nat home, as it gives permanency to the concern. How\\nmuch does England suffer, by forcing a great part of its\\npopulation to depend for a support on the contingency of\\na Legislative act Take for instance its silk looms. De-\\nsigned in the first instance to supersede the manufactory\\nof Italy, to whose climate and people -it properly belongs,\\n50,000 people are liable to be thrown on their pauper\\nlists, for want of the knowledge, and the means of any\\nother employment. A repeal of the law a change in\\ncommerce or the introduction of such machinery, as en-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 45\\nables one man to supersede the labour of ten, brings on\\ndistress, riot and punishment.\\nThis and many other manufactories must be cherished.\\nHence come rev^enu^ hiws, or, as more properly they\\nmight be called, laws for the promotion of smuggling,\\nmultiplication of crimes, severity and frequency of pmi\\nishnients, and the entailment of pauperism on posterity.\\nWhen the duty on commodities is worth saving, means\\nwill be sought, and risks encountered to avoid the pay-\\nment. Your mercliants well know this. Excuse me, sir,\\nfor my boldness, but I have lived in Boston, and during\\nthe embargo times; and know that several of my friends,\\nenterprising young men from this neighborhood, made\\ntheir fortunes in this way. They profess to have clear\\nconsciences, because the leading Statesmen of the times\\nopenly declared in their speeches and writings, the re-\\nstrictions to bo unconstitutional yet while the law was\\nin beincr submission to its restrictions was a moral obli-\\ngation. What is profitable to government, will be sup-\\nported by law and every attempt to evade the law, will\\nbe punished as a fraud and spies, who are the receivers\\nof a part of the forfeiture, will be on the watch accusa-\\ntions multiply the courts will be filled and the prisons\\nwill groan with victims. A host of idlers will hence be-\\ngin and will create families who are to live by their wits\\nand transmit their vocation to a numerous progeny. If\\nthe law had not come, they had not sinned, and society\\nwould have beheld none of the evils which have their\\norigin in revenue and protection laws which are fed by\\nthese laws which are propagated by these laws and\\nwhich the law can never stop.\\nBut do you not forget, said I, the great dissimilarity of Eu-\\nrope and America? In Europe the manufiicturers have\\nbeen, and are, hands. In America, machines. It is a", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nhappy circumstance that the ingenuity of the people has\\nbeen tasked to invent substitutes for manual labour.\\nWith our extensive country and thin population, no great\\nmanufactories could possibly be supported without those\\nsubstitutes and with them we shall prevent, in a great\\nmeasure, the evil of pauperism, while Europe, overstocked\\nwith hands, cannot introduce labour-saving machines,\\nwithout feeding those, of the present generation at least,\\nwho must be dismissed from employment. With us, on\\nthe contrary, how many thousands begin and continue in\\nthe more congenial employments of farming, and the me-\\nchanic arts, and thus spread a healthy population through\\nour immense country. And is it not vastly better that a\\nmanufactory should be encouraged to its full capacity in\\nan early stage of society, that men may sooner learn\\nthe necessity of preparing themselves, and their children\\nfor permanent employments that depend on the provisions\\nof nature rather than on the precarious contingency of\\nlaw, or the demands of ever shifting fashion\\nMy friends returned, and hoisted the signal for dinner.\\nI was highly gratified with the specimen of New Hamp-\\nshire sagacity and departed with an exchange of hopes\\nto meet again.\\nEuropeans cannot have more erroneous notions con-\\ncerning the people of New-England, than the inhabitants\\nof the capital of New-England have concerning the inhabi-\\ntants of the interior of Vermont and New-Hampshire.\\nThe printed reports of some missionaries have tended to\\nstrengthen these misconceptions. The labours of the\\nmissionaries are generally among the most ignorant and\\nshiftless part of the community they have much perso-\\nnal suffering to endure, and much obstinacy to encounter\\nand no doubt sometimes write under the irritation of mor-\\ntified feelings, and with the indignation of virtuous sensi-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 47\\nbility. It is extremely uncharitable to accuse them as\\nmany do, of exaggerating the difficulty of their labours,\\nfrom interested and selfish motives. They are generally\\nhonest and zealous men, though not always the most judi-\\ncious have little knowledge of mankind and frequently\\nabound with sectarian bitterness and bigotry. Even that\\nelegant, liberal and accomplished scholar, who a few\\nyears since, made a tour of inspection into this part of the\\ncountry, seems liable to the charge of selecting sentences\\nfor the purpose of effect. It would be well for all mis-\\nsionaries to study the instructions of the Jesuits as given\\nin the life of Francis Xavier, the great catholic apostle,\\nas he was called, to the Indies.\\nThe Attorney general of Vermont once invited me to\\nvisit the village school. I found the method of instruction\\nto be similar to that of our best city schools, and the\\nbooks in use, uniformly the same. This uniformity in ele-\\nmentary books will eventually banish every species of Pro-\\nvincialism. No instructor will henceforth be tolerated,\\nwho deviates from the national standard. This school is\\nfree from one absurdity which our city schools still retain,\\nviz. that of dictionary lessons.\\nThe old towns neglect their schools the new towns\\nare remarkably careful of them. Our people, said the\\nAttorney General, are young and enterprising, and are\\nambitious not only of keeping up the school establishment,\\nbut of introducing all the improvements which the best\\ncity schools have adopted. Fortunately likewise we have\\nfewer objects to repress the invention and curiosity of\\nchildren, than are offered to those who live in luxurious\\ncities. We are remote from toy-shops, that supply with-\\nout effort, what boys would otherwise invent. We have\\nprevailed on our traders to forbear importing idle story\\nbooks, and unnatural pictures, from a conviction that va-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nriety enough for amusement or the excitement of curiosi-\\nty can be had from the realities of life. Plato wisely ex-\\ncluded poetry from his republic. Fables may originate\\nin an ignorant age, but all the splendid fascinations of poet-\\nry are bestowed on them in an age of refinement. Idleness\\nand luxury require the stimulants of fiction and wonder.\\nThe Quakers long ago, learned the secret of engaging\\nthe mind of infancy itself, by truth. They found that\\nchildren always inquired if the story were true And\\nof Jack the giant killer, Tom Thumb, and the infinite\\nhost of nursery and shop books, what account could b.e\\ngiven? From all such, impressions are made on young\\nminds, and a foundation is laid for the admission of fic-\\ntion, or in other words, for invention of filsehood, equiv-\\nocation and lying. We had rather a whole Encyclopedia\\nshould be torn in pieces, and the parts distributed among\\nthe pupils, than that cheap books of amusement should be\\nintroduced; for here they find abundant matter to excite\\nand satisfy curiosity.\\nHorses and carriages were in readiness to convey some\\nof our party to Red Hill, about four miles from this place.\\nThis is the highest accessible hill in the vicinity, and is\\nusually visited by all travellers. Part of the road is very\\nrough and steep, but a proper curiosity overcomes all dif-\\nficulties, and the prospect from the summit, richly repays\\nfor the labour. Mountain after mountain seems floating\\nin the midst of many a lake and it said, that the\\nscenery is more varied and more extensive than what can\\nbe seen from the White Hills, because Red Hill has a\\nmedium station, which is usually clear, while the White\\nHills are generally involved in mist and cloud. A view\\nof the White Hills is obstructed by the Ossipee.\\nThis hill is the retreat of a certain contemplative re-\\ncluse by the name of C. D. who occasionally enters the", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 49\\nhouse, and sometimes travels abroad, but spends most of\\nhis time in the open air among the trees and bushes,\\nwithout any other apparent motive than that of musing.\\nHere, likewise, resides a very genteel family of talkative\\nand civil beggars. They sold us a refreshment of blue-\\nberries. This species of whortleberry grows in abundance\\non such eminences we found them on Wachusett 3,200\\nfeet above the sea. They are gathered and dried, and\\nused as a substitute for Zante currants. Mrs. C s cake,\\nwith which we were regaled the evening before, satisfac-\\ntorily proved that the berries thus prepared, were as\\nsweet and as palatable as imported currants.\\nA long register of the names of visitants was spread be-\\nfore us, on which we were requested to write our\\nnames, while the master amused us by the recital of\\nthe most remarkable sayings of several great and\\nhonourable men and women, who had been his visitants,\\nand whose names had been thus immortalized. He had\\nlikewise taught a crow to pronounce the names of a few\\nwho had been peculiarly bountiful to his wife and chil-\\ndren.\\nAmong other animals that mingled with the company\\nwas a venerable dog, of whose capacity and genealogy we\\nwere entertained in a specification of considerable length.\\nThe ancestor of this dog was said to be the most famous\\nin Essex County in Massachusetts, for libertinism and\\nstratagem. D. told us that he had recollected having\\nonce seen a history of the achievements of two in Ipswich\\nand he had little doubt that this was one of the same\\nbreed. He promised to procure a copy for our perusal,\\nobserving however, that it offended some political parti-\\nzans, whose sensitiveness construed it into a satire on\\nsome of their leaders. (See Appendix B.)\\nThis region I thought might be similar in appearance\\n5", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nto some in the Highlands of Scotland. Oh, you are\\nnot the first that has thought so, said Miss L An\\nold Scotch beggar, a beadsman, perhaps, more like the\\nDouglass than Edre Ocheltre, was here a few years ago.\\nHe stood at the door for some time, wrapped in thought.\\nAt length he exclaimed, How much like my own coun-\\ntry Are you from Scotland? I am, may it please\\nyou, lady, said he. and M ^Donald loves every\\nthing that is Scotch. McDonald, said I what, find\\nhis way into woods as well as into cities? Did you\\nknow him, sir Yes, he has been a noted personage\\nfor 20 years past. I have heard that he belonged to a\\nfamily remarkable for their physical strength, and longev-\\nity one of the name having lived 117 years; another\\n111. And the one you saw here, died lately, at about\\nthe same age, at the Alms House in Lynn.* This last\\nhas been the inmate of every Alms House in the United\\nStates. He has been an incessant traveller, and at the\\nage of 105, was firm and athletic, though a little more\\ncontented to sleep under cover and on a pillow of straw,\\nthan on the ground, with a stone for his head piece. He\\nhas been, even to extreme old age, one of the most active\\nand athletic men I ever heard of; and I do not wonder\\nthat he brings the Douglass to a romantic mind. Intoxi-\\ncated with a very small quantity of ardent spirit, he was\\nAt the Alms House in Lynn, Donald McDonald, aged 108. He was boru in\\nScotland in 1722. He was in the British service before he came to this country\\nwas at the taking of Quebec, when Wolf fell, and with Braddock when he was\\nkilled by the Indians, and was one of the few, whom Washington, then a Major,\\nconducted from the field of battle. Donald served several years in our revolution-\\nary war in Gen. Green s regiment. He left Portsmouth in April last, and travelled\\non foot to Washington, and on his way back stopped at our Alms House, where\\nhe died on the morning of the 4th inst. Before his sickness he was intelligent and\\nrelated many incidents, both of his early life and latter years with great minute-\\nness. He had an intercourse with^President Jackson and his Cabinet, while at\\nWashington, and gave a correct account of his reception at the seat of Govern-\\nment.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 51\\nboisterous and frantic but when sober, sprightly and in-\\ntelligent, and never forgetting his good manners. On\\none occasion he exhibited a fine trait of his national pride.\\nIt was thus related to me, by Mrs. P. The superintendant\\nof the kitchen of the Boston Alms House, Mrs. Shaw, was\\na young Scotch woman. M ^Donald, on being brought\\nin one day, was questioned by her about something rela-\\nting to her department. Attracted by her accent, he\\nturned to her, then from her, and giving her a look of in-\\neffable disdain, passed on without making any reply. The\\nnext morning, when he came to her larder for hir break-\\nfast, he bowed very low, and with a peculiarly oby^quious\\ntone of invocation, begged a thousand pardon, for his\\nrudeness the evening before, saying, Indeed, indeed,\\nI thought you Scotch, and was mortified to find a Scotch\\nLassie, in a Yankee Aims-House but I did not know\\nthen that you was an Officer. On further conversation,\\nit appeared that they both were natives of Inverness.\\nMcDonald had known her grandfather, and mentioned\\nso many particulars of the people and place as to verify\\nthat part of his story.\\nWe returned to our lodgings, not a little fatigued, but\\nhighly delighted with our excursion.\\nTaking advantage of a fine day, we resolved to make an\\nexcursion of about twenty miles to visit an Indian en-\\ncampment. It was situated on the skirts of a forest of\\noaks, and near to a very flourishing village. An annual\\nexcursion from Penobscot, usually begins in May, and oc-\\ncupies several weeks. The Indians make a residence of\\nseveral days in the vicinity of some place which offers a\\nmarket for their baskets, brooms, mats, i^c. as well as an\\nopportunity to solicit charity. Their encampment was\\nnot dissimilar to that of the gipsies of Europe, as described\\nby writers. The principal difference consists in their", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nfreedom from predatory practises their occupation of\\nbasket making, and their daily exercise of shooting with\\nthe bow and arrow. These half civilized Indians, have\\nlost much of that freedom, that elasticity of spirit, that\\nlightness of lirnb and movement, which belong to un-\\ntamed savages yet in the management of the bow, they\\nare equally alert and skilful and when excited by game\\nor the temptation of reward, exhibit great physical power\\nand skill and intellectual intenseness. In fact the human\\nform cannot, in any circumstances, show more intensity\\nof feeling than does that of the Indian when under strong\\nexcitement. An Indian is indifferent, listless and lazy,\\nor active and even sublime, in exact proportion to the\\ndanger he is in, or the value of the object he pursues. In\\nfiring at insignificant animals, he is careless at danger-\\nous ones, so intent, that his whole soul seems to be con-\\ndensed into one act. In one case, he snatches up his bow\\nwithout any preparation, shoots with carelessness and re-\\nrelaxes into inattention. In the other, he rises silently,\\nslowly and stooping he proceeds with caution, exam-\\nines his weapon, adjusts his string and arrow, takes a\\nfirm position, balances his head stands erect, and moves\\nwith slight vibrations of his body to examine his prey\\nthrows his head on the left, draws, lets fly his arrow,\\nbut remains fixed till he sees the effect of his shot\\nthen, if successful, relaxes with an air of triumph, throws\\nback his head, draws home his left foot, and becomes up-\\nright. During this transaction he is a study for a statua-\\nry and he who can transfer the image to the marble,\\nthough he but copy nature, will produce one of those in-\\nimitable works, which become the admiration of mankind.\\nBut to catch the attitude, the intenseness, the fire, the\\nsublimity, the soul, as they glance from the combined ef-\\nfect of the position, action, and spirit of the whole from", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 53\\nthe dawn of exultation, to tlie completion of triumph, to\\nhave the intuitive perception of rapid sensation to em-\\nbody them in his own soul in one moment, character ob-\\ntained and fixed by a glance, must be the property only\\nof genius of the highest order.\\nMountain scenery expands the mind more than the\\ngrandest exhibitions of art. Every work of man has some\\nlittleness blended with its grandeur and the feelings that\\narise from the first observance of magnificent temples, are\\nsoon frittered away by the intrusion of art yet caged\\nin a city, we deem them to be wonderful efforts of crea-\\ntive genius, and superior to the productions of nature.\\nAnd to eyes limited to city walls, the objects are adapted\\nto the vision of contracted observers. Fix the summer\\nclouds of twilight like a frozen ocean, and their beauty\\nwould soon vanish deprive the mountains of their waving\\nforests, their tumbling cataracts, their immediate accom-\\npaniments, and they would be lifeless as the desert. It\\nis the splendid radiance of shifting forms, ever moving,\\never assuming new shapes, ever seeming to be animated\\nwith active power, ever performing new and singular ev-\\nolutions, both in the sky and on the earth and all under\\nthe pressure of unseen energy, sensibly referring to some\\nagency mysterious without fearfulness and superstition\\ngrand without tiie abasement of art beautiful without a\\ntinge of prettiness immeasurable, without any standard\\nof comparison, any rule of adjustment, any limit to change,\\nany geometrical outline, any nicety of coloring that ar-\\nrest the eye, expand the imagination, absorb every feel-\\ning of the heart, and fill the whole soul with inexpres-\\nsible and contemplative delight. No wonder that in ages of\\nignorance and consequent superstition, not the vulgar on-\\nly but the imaginative, should people every deep dell\\n5*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nand mountain cavern with the unseen genius of the\\nwood.\\nIf parents desire to expand the minds of their children\\nbeyond the wires of the city-cage, let them look at, and\\nbecome familiar with the woods, the wilds, and the moun-\\ntains. Let them not trust to the conventional formulas\\nof poets and novelists for just ideas of nature. Let them\\nreceive early impressions from nature herself, and then\\nthe descriptions of writers will be fully understood and\\nappreciated. Then we shall no longer hear grown peo-\\nple express a wonderment at what is natural nor see\\nenlightened men bring art as the standard by which to\\nmeasure nature, instead of judging of art by nature, the\\nmother of all art. A picture will not then be estimated\\nby its coloring, only, or by the individual correctness of\\nsingle figures; but by its large and general character,\\nexpanded by the hand of the genuine artist, who so dis-\\nposes, combines and animates, as to create a perfect whole,\\nwhich fills the mind by its completeness. We should no\\nlonger hear the names of great masters profaned by\\nboasting connoisseurs, whose taste has been bought in\\nParis, or by girls who have giggled at the exhibitions of\\nthe Atheneum. One noble idea of nature, prepares the\\nmind for the reception and love of the arts and he who\\ndoes not acquire the rudiments of taste, by the contem-\\nplation of her beauties, by living in the midst of her mag-\\nnificence by frequenting her romantic wildernesses by\\nsurveying her picturesque and animated scenery, till his\\nmind becomes impregnated with the true spirit which she\\npours in profusion on every thing around him may\\njudge of the accurate contour of a profile, but will never\\nbe a correct judge of the picturesque, nor a fit auditor,\\nfor a painter, whose big imagination moves in the lip 1\\nto the dumbness of whose gesture, one might interpret.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 55\\nTwo ladies and two gentlemen arrived to-day from\\nHolderness, where they had spent a week, being unwill-\\ning, they said, to quit this region, while fine weather by\\nday, and fine moonlight by night, favoured their enjoy-\\nments. One of the ladies was so enraptured with a moon-\\nlight scene, on one of the intermediate hills between this\\nand Squam Lake, that some of our company determined\\nto visit it, either now or on our returning from the dis-\\ntant region we proposed to reach next week.\\nWith two boats, both under a light sail, we took our\\ndeparture about 9 o clock, and looking into several creeks\\nwhich indented and sometimes penetrated far into the\\nwoods, we arrived at Moultonborough in about three\\nhours. We might have ascended the Ossipee mountain,\\nhad time permitted, and have had from the summit, a\\nfair view of the White Hills.\\nThe Indians resorted to this broken country for safety,\\nand to the lakes in general for the purpose of fishing.\\nRelics of their encampments are frequently found, hard-\\nly curious enough however to suit the magnificence of\\npoetry, or to afford any illustrations of history. European\\nLiterati would want employment, were there no ruins to\\nexplore, to describe or to quarrel about and as no age\\ncan be without such amusing speculations our succes-\\nsors will probably invent antiquities poets will people\\nthe recesses of the forests with sprites, fairies, goblins and\\ngenii novelists will import fables historians will natu-\\nralize classic and gothic stories, and traditions, or assign\\nperiods of migration from the Asiatic shores, provided an\\nage of fiction can by the force of genius, be made to su-\\npersede the age of reason or if the routine of regular\\nemployment must be relieved by strange and marvellous\\nrecitals.\\nNovelty we know is prodigiously fecundant, and he", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nwho resuscitates the dead of an old country, or remote\\nage, becomes the progenitor of an overflowing population\\nin the new. These are as yet virgin woods and it re-\\nmains to be seen, whether the fictions, the fables, the\\ngoblins, the ghosts, the evil eye, the second sight, and all\\nthe host of vulgar superstitions, together with the decrep-\\nit cupids, the stale venuses, vampyres, bowers of bliss,\\nenchanted gardens, haunted castles, witching cells sub-\\njects, that migrating from the east, have appeared in ev-\\nery quarter of Europe will be imported, naturalized and\\nnourished, in a country that has not been darkened by\\nignorance, nor conquered, divided and parcelled out to\\nchiefs, hierarchs, and conspirators, whose policy and\\ninterest silenced inquiry and interdicted knowledge.\\nHavino heard much of the Indian Doctor, and the\\nwonderful cures he had performed, we were desirous of\\npaying him a visit, and actually set out for that purpose,\\ndetermining to cross the Ossipee, rather than wind around\\nit, by a road, that in some places w^as little better than a\\nfoot-path. We were however soon discouraged, and\\nturned towards the residence of Doctor C Here\\nwe met with a hospitable reception, and much curious in-\\nformation. Informing him of our first intention, he gave a\\nvery graphic description of the person, the habitation, and\\nthe manners of the singular Indian Doctor. He owes\\nhis reputation, said our friend, to accident. It was nec-\\nessary to secrete a notorious debauchdl*, and this remote\\nplace was to be his residence. Being obliged to live on\\nvegetables and water, he was not only restored to perfect\\nhealth, but a complete revolution was effected in his\\nmind. His irregularities being forgotten, or forgiven in\\nconsequence of his reformation, he was again admitted to\\nthe society of his friends. From this time, he assiduous-\\nly promoted the interest of the Indian Doctor, by recom-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\n57\\nmending his skill in curing dyspepsy, intemperance, and\\nOther disorders. The doctor soon found it convenient to\\nlay in large quantities of roots and herbs. You may\\nreadily conceive how many disorders would disappear, by\\nbeing deprived of nourishment and this is the secret of\\nhis skill and reputation.\\nOur host, the physician, is a man of great learning, and\\nlarge experience. He received his medical education in\\nPhiladelphia, under the celebrated Dr. Physic. He had\\nintended to make Portsmouth his permanent place of res-\\nidence, but the decline of health became so alarming,\\nthat it was necessary to retire to the country and give\\nhimself up to moderate exercise and perfect seclusion.\\nIn a short time he recovered so much vigor, as to be able\\nto practise in the neighborhood, merely for the sake of\\namusement, and occupation. In the course of two years,\\nhis health was perfectly restored, and his practice had so\\nextended, as to put him in danger of being overcome by\\nfatigue. Of all professions, said he, that of a Physi-\\ncian is the most laborious. It is so in Town it is\\nmuch more so amid a widely scattered population. In\\nthe course of fifteen years practise, the greater moiety of\\nmy nights has been disturbed by requisitions from a\\ndistance. Sometimes twenty miles of woods were to be\\nthreaded sometimes the Lakes were to be passed over\\nin an open boat. No matter what was the weather, the\\nDoctor s humanity must always be put to the test. Re-\\nmuneration was a thing not to be thought of; if futurity\\nbrought any, it was well, but recollection seldom accom-\\npanied restoration. Why I have lived here so long, may\\nnaturally be inquired. Habit, occupation, and health,\\nanswer that inquiry. There are privations to which we\\nall must submit to a Physician, the greatest, is the want\\nof intercourse with professional men, for, however full the", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nbooks may be, the suggestions of reasoning and living ex-\\nperience are infinitely more important to a practitioner.\\nBut in the country, consultations must necessarily be rare.\\nEducated men will not willingly settle where they must\\nlabor without reward, and cultivate their own fields for\\nsubsistence. Doctors there are, it is true, in abundance\\nmen who have read the Family-Physician and rode six\\nmonths with some popular practitioner. As the country\\nimproves, this class diminishes, and the people give a\\npreference to regular physicians, where they can be ob-\\ntained. What the practice was thirty years ago, you may\\nlearn from a description written by Mr. S. who was de-\\ntained by a storm at a miserable tavern in no very remote\\nvillage, where a sign board designated it to be the resi-\\ndence of a person who was both an innkeeper and a doc-\\ntor. The Doctor then going to his desk, took from one\\nof the drawers a manuscript, of which he permitted me\\nto take a copy.\\nAt the corner of an obscure village, we discerned a\\nsign-board inscribed with the name of a rich merchant of\\none of our large commercial towns. It was a singularity\\nwhich attracted notice, and induced inquiry. We were\\ntold that the owner of the land, (for it could not\\nbe called a farm, nor a gentleman s villa), resided\\nhere from April to June, in order to avoid the high taxes\\nthat were assessed on his property in his place of business\\nthe tax in the country being nine tenths less. This we\\nconsidered as a pernicious example among any order of\\ncitizens, more especially among those who exercise the\\npower of self-government that government even when\\nexercised by a select body, being nothing more than the\\nsubstitute for their own personal attendance, advice, and\\ndecision. The wisest Legislatures have always deemed", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 59\\na personal tax a necessary means of making the people\\nfeel their individual interest in the government. The\\nJewish Legislator laid a perpetual tax on the people for\\nthe support of his Hierarchal government, and this ex-\\nample has never been abandoned. Modern governments,\\nseparating themselves sometimes from the people, have\\nby indirect taxes, broken in a great measure this bond of\\nconnexion, and applied the revenue to objectionable pur-\\nposes. Wars would seldom occur if the pockets of the\\npeople were immediately to be lightened to support the\\nexpenses and corruption would abate where the treasu-\\nry must be replenished by a demand on the individuals\\nof the community. An abundant revenue derived from\\nunfelt taxes is the main-spring of war, and the source\\nand support of corruption. In the necessary support of\\ngovernment, all acquiesce, and equal taxation for that\\npurpose, may not justly be evaded. But with regard to\\nindirect taxes by means of commercial revenue acts,\\nthere is reason to think that few who pay them, feel per-\\nperfectly satisfied with their equality, or of the entire jus-\\ntice of their application. Hence mercantile men, for\\nwant of due consideration, sometimes act very basely.\\nInstead of proposing and effecting Legislative amend-\\nments, they break the law, and thus set an example\\nwhich operates as a precedent for the unprincipled and\\nthe more speculative.\\nA high sense of honor, a national feeling and a jeal-\\nous regard for the character of personal integrity, which\\ngives distinction to the mercantile class, and procures re-\\nspect and confidence, at home and abroad, was universal\\nduring the long period of the Federal administration.\\nOne or two instances occurred, but they were branded\\nwith disgrace. The restrictive system operated as a\\nbounty upon fraud, abated the indignation of public opin-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nion, relaxed the lies of good faith, and thus impaired the\\nsoundness of public morals. But in the local concerns\\nof a municipal population, where all have some connex-\\nion, and one general interest, it is rare that such a case\\nas this of a merchant shifting the burden from his own to\\nthat of his neighbor s shoulder occurs and where it does,\\nthe man may justly merit contempt.\\nAsk you, why in the country that new sign\\nComes a rich merchant, a wliole month to dine.\\nBut why this labor ere the first of May\\nIn loyal townships is no tax to pay\\nOr does tlie mob, in flattery of the great,\\nRemit the county, town, and parish rate\\nGo, hapless mortal, count thy gold in haste,\\nFor chance that gave, succeeding chance may waste.\\nAsk of no Judges to protect thy wealth\\nAsk of no watch to guard thy house from stealth\\nAsk of no arms on ocean or on land,\\nTo check the hostile, stop the lawless band\\nAsk of no neighbor, lest thy sons expire,\\nHelp, or to rescue, or to quench the fire;\\nLet order, government, be all o erthrown.\\nBe bridges broken, roads with woods o ergrown,\\nBe wives promiscuous to the rude embrace,\\nBe houseless children and unknovvti their race,\\nSpread ruin, anarchy, and rude uproar.\\nWild ruffians plunder, murder cloy the door,\\nSince from the general slock withdrawn thy gold,\\nTh example teaches\u00e2\u0080\u0094 why not all withhold:\\nAll who protection take, must pay the price,\\nOf power to rule, and law to punish vice\\nThe social compact never makes a slave,\\nAnd each man s wealth, the social compact gave.\\nWithout its rules, thy canvass ne er had spread;\\nWithout its fences, masts had been thy bread\\nIt guards thy cargoes, it protects thy fields.\\nThy freedom warrants, and thy being shields\\nIt gave to thee, thy fortune s well to carve\\nAnd yet the social compact, thou wouldst starve.\\n^71071.\\nThe M., once the most splendid family in the region,\\nand literally the Lords of the Isles, have left no palaces\\nadorned with columns of granite, and arches emblazoned\\nI", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 61\\nwith heraldic devices, no tombs distinguished by the\\nchisel of the sculptor, nor monumental tablets inscribed\\nwith records of lofty or beneficent deeds the name of\\nthe town alone remains.\\nI had heard much, when a boy, of the greatness of the\\nancestor, and was very desirous of meeting with some of\\nhis descendants. The impressions of my youth were,\\nthat he was a mighty chieftain, before whom every savage\\nband fled, and every fortress submitted. An elderly man\\nvery shabbily dressed was walking on the plain. His\\nfigure might pass for heroical, and his step was that of a\\ndisciplined soldier. Tis not difficult to distinguish a vet-\\neran from a militia man. One has a firm step and a\\nlofty bearing and crosses the street at right angles, or\\nwith an oblique tread with his face forward the other\\nhas a tripping, straggling gait and fidgety shake. I put\\nmyself in his way, and soon entered upon inquiry respect-\\ning the country. This led to a free communication on\\nhis part, and he seemed to be gratified with the attention\\nof a stranger. The territory of his ancestors, he said\\nwas very extensive, but misfortunes had left their descen-\\ndants little more than the recollection of what it was. If\\nhowever the estate of his father did not secure to him\\na competency, his own good and respectable children\\nkept him from want. The first favoured lot of age is, to\\nretain its powers undecayed the next is his, who is sen-\\nsible of their decay, and diffident of their exertion, says\\nthe author of the Man of Feeling, Wm. McKenzie.\\nThe land hereabout is fertile and cheap. We were of-\\nfered a good farm, with requisite buildings for four dollars\\nan acre. A disposition to roam so prevalent among the\\nyoung men, is however a great preventive of improve-\\nment in agriculture. A restless propensity for enterprise,\\namong the men, keeps them looking forward to some-\\n6", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nthing better, and, like the Israelites about to leave Egypt,\\nto stand with their loins girt and their staves in their\\nhands.\\nA taste for foreign luxuries among the women, is no\\nless detrimental to domestic economy. Conteniedness\\nbelongs exclusively to a stationary people, and it is the\\nsubstitute for contentedness found in the hereditary ten-\\nures of Europe, that has advanced rural economy gener-\\nally, and made England in particular such a lovely gar-\\nden.\\nIn Canada every peasant has a fund in reserve, saved\\nfrom his annual income and however small that income\\nmay be, a tythe is laid by for a rainy day, and old age.\\nThe Greeks, says an intelligent traveller, indulge a piti-\\nful vanity wear ermine, velvet, c. and say it is bet-\\nter to live like a prince one year, than to exist fifty like a\\nbeggar. In Turkey a Greek knows his head is liable\\nto be cut off any day, without his asking why We like-\\nwise forget the future, and live as though we were al-\\nways to be 3^oung and prosperous.\\nTraders grow rich, and by no unfair means, if it be\\nnot unfair to encourage, or to let a man run up an ac-\\ncount, till security must be made by a mortgage of his\\nfarm and finally, by an accumulated interest that eats\\ndown his oak trees, undermines his house, and ousts the\\nowner. How much of this debt is to be carried to the\\naccount of strong drink, cannot be well ascertained.\\nSome part of it must be charged to expense of lawsuits,\\nfor litigation is resorted to as the common appendage to\\nthe business of the trader, while the debtor continues the\\nsuit as long as law will allow, and lawyers will plead. A\\ntrader s establishment in the interior, is intermediate be-\\ntween the wholesale merchant of the sea port, and the\\nscattered population of the country. From the same", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 63\\nsource the farmer draws those commodities, which he\\nmust otherwise want, or wait for, till winter brings leisure,\\nand a canal of snow, to enable him to accomplish a jour-\\nney from home. The trader thus finds a sale for his\\ngoods, and collects in return in small quantities daily, a\\ncargo for the merchant s ship, and maintains his own cred-\\nit. But it must be obvious, that the manner in which\\nthis traffic is frequently conducted, is injurious to both\\nparties, impairing the honorable integrity of the one, and\\nthe independence of the other. Coin has the peculiar\\nvirtue of attaching the owner to its possession and reten-\\ntion. It is a pledge of independence and the man with\\na clear shilling in his pocket, has a higher sense of self\\nrespect, the underpinning of morals, than he who has a\\nthousand guineas in his pocket liable to the touch of his\\ncreditor. The debtor who is sued, neglects no op-\\nportunity of injuring his creditor, and the trader, af-\\nter growing nominally rich from the imprudence of the\\nfarmer, finds it necessary to remove from the neighborhood\\nof those who are ever willing to attribute to others, mis-\\nfortunes which they brought on themselves.\\nMr. C. informed me that during the haying season, he\\nretailed sixty barrels of spirits, in his small settlement\\nand likewise that he was sued in one year on fifty-four\\ncomplaints for a breach of the license act 50 of which\\nhe defeated, and four only, remained undicided.\\nFrom one general principle proceeds the love, of the\\nlaw, of political and religious discussion. Men desire to\\nbe in action, and in action that promises victory over an\\nantagonist. Were the contest confined to hunger and the\\nmeans of supply, some indulgence might be allowed the\\nforbidden shew-bread must be yielded to necessity but un-\\nhappily, a desire of profit on the part of the seller and a\\nwish of immediate gratification on the part of the buyer.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nblind both to inevitable consequences. The daughter\\ntrusts that her hens will lay as many eggs, and her onion\\nbed produce as many onions, and sell for as great a sum\\nas they did last year, and therefore she may anticipate\\nthe sale, and take up from the shop, those beautiful feath-\\ners those tortoise-shell combs that charming sprigged\\nmuslin and that leghorn bonnet, which are all the fashion\\nin the capital. Besides, this is exactly the way in which\\nher cousin Oliphant, now the wife of a Boston merchant,\\nfurnishes herself with the newest fashions and the most\\ncostly articles. And though Mr. Oliphant frequently re-\\nmonstrates against her taking any credit, especially at a\\nfashionable milliner s, shoe-maker s or cheap variety-shop,\\nat 50 per cent, advance, and yet she heeds not his ad-\\nmonition and so long as people have confidence in the\\nsolvency of her husband, so long they answer all her or-\\nders. Why should she not adopt the same method, as\\nshe is to pay the bills from her own stock? But this is\\nnot all. The account once opened, the whole family\\nsoon learn the way to the shop become acquainted with,\\nand feel a desire for many articles which they otherwise\\nwould not have wanted nor have thought of-.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 father s ac-\\ncount rapidly swells to a far greater amount than his year-\\nly income, and bankruptcy is the consequence. And bank-\\nruptcy in the country never enriches the bankrupt, what-\\never it may do in the city. In the country it usually makes\\nmen modest, retired, snug, economical and active, and\\nshowing by their manners and mode of living, that they\\nregard public opinion, and sedulously avoid every thing\\nwhich has a tendency to elicit unfavourable remarks, or to\\ndo violence to the feelings of those whom they have made\\nto suffer.\\nThe word tasie is much used by^our acquaintances the\\nGrimshaws; with them however it has no reference to", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 6^\\narts, literature or sensibility, but to mode of living only.\\nBut even in these they seem not to be aware that it con-\\nsists in the combination of the useful and elegant. Mag-\\nnificence has here no place, and wealth is not absolutely\\nrequisite. It exhibits nothing but what is perfectly con-\\nsistent with moderate fortune, and the station we hold in\\nsociety. Poverty cannot take away its propriety, and\\nwealth cannot diminish or increase its simplicity. It\\npresents a face of cheerful independence that depends on\\nno fortuitous sunshine an independence that is real, be-\\ncause it springs from a conscious rectitude of intention,\\nand a happy execution of duty.\\nA great change has taken place throughout the coun-\\ntry in the consumption of ardent spirits, and nothing af-\\nfords better evidence of the progress of truth, brought\\nhome to every man, by physical demonstrations of the in-\\nevitable consequences or error in living, than the success\\nof those strenuous efforts, at first of individuals, and then\\nof associations, in propagating principles and superintend-\\ning the means of abating intemperance.\\nThe three learned professions set themselves earnestly\\nto work, to encounter this raging and increasing pest\\nwhich threatened destruction to all sobriety the divine\\nby his morality the jurist by his law, and the Physician\\nby his physiological demonstrations. The tendency of\\nintemperance to the utter prostration of all capacity for\\nsensual enjoyment, shown even to the most ignorant by\\nmen in whose science and skill they had confidence, had\\nan effect, where threats of punishment or final destruc-\\ntion failed to restrain or reform. It is thus that philoso-\\nphy finally triumphs over ignorance, the mother of all vice;\\nit is thus that moral, religious and benevolent men, by\\ncombining in the cause of virtue, awaken the thoughtless\\nto the use of reason, and effect a reformation in society.\\n6*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nThough many affected at first to ridicule the associations,\\nas the mere enthusiastic engaged in a hopeless undertak-\\ning, no sooner had the lovers of order and good morals an-\\nnounced their intention to enlist in this crusade against a\\nvice that threatened to ruin the character of the country,\\nthan ridicule was converted into respect for the men who\\nhad undertaken so arduous a task. The success of these\\nefforts proves that whei:e the great current of public opin-\\nion is made to set, every side rilt will be drawn into its\\nchannel, and augment its force. The shame attendant on\\ndrunkenness, has banished it from good, and from fash-\\nionable society, and fashionable society makes a precedent\\nand extends its influence to the remotest dregs of the vul-\\ngar tvould be genteel, from its high carricature of the\\nwoman of fashion, soon yields to the modest dress of the\\nwell-bred gentlewoman.\\nAt the tavern in Middlebury in Vermont, I was not a\\nlittle surprised at the quietness of the house during my\\nresidence of a whole week. In most towns the tavern\\nis the rendezvous of the idle, the dissipated and dissolute\\nhere, it was free from all gambling and drinking. The\\nseats of the Bar-room were every evening occupied by\\nsome of the fathers of the town. The novelty of this re-\\nverse of character, induced me to inquire if there was\\nany peculiarity in their municipal regulations. Judge Chip-\\nman and Squire Painter, two of the oldest of the original\\nsettlers, answered my questions. I learned that after the\\ntermination of the revolutionary war, they explored the\\ncountry, and finding this a suitable place for the erection\\nof mills and the establishment of a town, they obtained a\\ngrant, and proceeded with a few families, to make a\\nsettlement. From their knowledge of men, and their ex-\\nperience in business, they determined to profit by their\\nsagacity in the selection of future inhabitants. Great em-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 67\\nigrations from the old States were then taking place.\\nSome would pay for the land, and many wanted credit.\\nAll passed in review. Those who had the right marks\\nwere not suffered to pass on. Land they should have al-\\nmost on their own terms. Those who had not the\\nright marks were advised to proceed. From such a\\nstock we expected industry, economy and enterprise, and\\nthe continued good order of our town has never been inter-\\nrupted by a single lazy or drunken man. Why you see\\nus at the tavern, may be accounted for, I suppose, or you\\nmay go away with erroneous impressions. By making\\nthe Bar-room our exchange, people of business know\\nwhere to find us together. This our practice is likewise\\na check on visitants that misrht be inclined to indiscre-\\ntions, and thus set bad examples to our youth. And final-\\nly by encouraging our young men to meet with us and\\njoin in our conversation without restraint, they become\\nacquainted with our methods of business, and derive, we\\npresume, no small advantage from our knowledge and ex-\\nperience. Not to tax our Landlord however, we regular-\\nly deposit a trifle on the table, though we neither drink\\nnor smoke.\\nAnother benefit has resulted from this practice of\\nfrequenting the tavern, said Mr. P., disputes are re-\\nferred to our really civil tribunal. Lawsuits for trifles,\\nare unknown, and as for street broils, they never occur.\\nThis latter circumstance, however, is as general a char-\\nacteristic of New-England men, as is that of a fondness\\nfor litigation.\\nThis war of words, is not so bad as a war of swords.\\nAs men in a social and civilized state are necessarily lia-\\nble to contentions, our wise ancestors designated the are-\\nna, ordained rules for the lists, determined on the periods,\\nwhen and where instead of entering as gladiators, as", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nknights of the rQund table; as claimants of the right of\\ntrial by battle, or as community against community in\\ndeadly array in the open field, and all for the purpose of\\nsettling disputes by the removal of one of the parties by\\ndeath they might expend their passions in harmless\\nthough windy words. The substitute for the brutal per-\\nsonal combat, though productive of much litigation, so\\nfar from lessening the courage, has a strong tendency to\\nmake man strenuous in the defence of his rights. The\\nmen of New-England are brave in actual danger, but by\\nno means quarrelsome even their sailors are less quar-\\nrelsome than those of other nations, and never provoke a\\nbattle merely to acquire the victory, or the character of a\\nBravo. The general diffusion of the knowledge of the\\nlaws, and the care with which they are applied, cause the\\npeople in most cases, to resort to that remedy for inju-\\nries.\\nThe first great school of men is the world in which\\nthey live. All seminaries from the infantile to the man-\\nly from the rudimental to the finished, are but auxiliary\\nand subordinate to this. The next are the practical in-\\nstitutions, whence the great principles result in the course\\nof example and experience, without being directly\\ntaught.\\nOral communication was once the only method of in-\\nstruction. Without letters men grow wise by observa-\\ntion, and whatever additional power letters and the art of\\nprinting confer, the advantages in most countries are re-\\nstricted to a ^ew; in N. E. they are accessible to men of\\nall conditions. That must be an elevated auditor who\\ncan examine into the truth or falsehood of every proposi-\\ntion collate evidence balance arguments draw legit-\\nimate conclusions establish opinions, and fix on a ra-\\ntional foundation, a certain judgment with respect to", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 69\\nthe two great concerns of all social communities, politics\\nand religion but for these subjects he must derive in-\\nstruction, and he derives it from the very circumstance\\nof his social relations. The schools have enabled him to\\nread the institutions have compelled him to think the\\ninterchange and collision of opinions, have corrected and\\nestablished his judgment, the consciousness of his own\\nweight in society expands his self-love into social feelings,\\nand even when submitting to passion or vice, he feels\\nthe check and influence of public opinion hence the\\nmoral atmosphere in which he lives has an irresistible in-\\nfluence on his character.\\nHowever poor or rich, ignorant or learned, every man\\nis a participient of the business and concerns of the little\\ncommunity of which he is a member, and has likewise\\nan interest, and exercises a power, in the state and nation-\\nal government.\\nThe division of the country, into states, counties, towns,\\nand parishes, renders the assemblage of the people fre-\\nquent. Every citizen has an immediate interest in the\\nassessments of a parish, the election of a minister, the buil-\\nding of a church, the establishment of free schools. Ev-\\nery town assembles its inhabitants to consider and decide\\non all projects of improvement, on all taxes and expendu^\\ntures, to scrutinize the proceedings and accounts of its\\nagents, to elect definitively, its representatives in the mu-\\nnicipality, and in the General Legislature, and conjointly\\nwith other towns the Governor and Senators the mem-\\nbers of Congress, and the President of the United States.\\nEvery Country has its more select assemblies, and its\\nCourts Laws are expounded, and cases argued before Ju-\\nrors and Witnesses, and a multitude of attendants.\\nEvery State has its annual election meetings its fre-\\nquent assemblies to examine and discuss the qualifications", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nof candidates, and every man reads newspapers and pam-\\nphlets, all which prepare him to form his opinion on all\\nthe subjects which come before any of their^ assem-\\nblies.\\nAs on public affairs he has abundant means of learning\\nto form correct opinions, so with respect to religion, there\\nis no want of opportunity to be rightly informed.\\nFrom the first settlement of the country, religious dis-\\ncussions have been prevalent, and seldom has an age\\nbeen free from controversies that sometimes produced a\\ntempory agitation, and sometimes engrossed the entire\\nattention of the people during a greater part of one genera-\\ntion.\\nIf such discussions become, as they frequently do, un-\\ncharitable, they create thought, and he who thinks on\\nreligious and moral subjects, cannot fail of assenting to\\nthe existence of some good principles, the observance of\\nwhich, contribute to his happiness and he who is made\\nto hesitate in the career of vice or infidelity, in becom-\\ning sceptical of their eflScacy, wants only a touch from\\nthe magnet of truth to stop his oscillations, and direct\\nhis course.\\nThat infidelity has extensively prevailed among the ig-\\nnorant, cannot be questioned nor that the example of\\nmen of education, and of gentlemen has had some influ-\\nence.\\nWhen every dissent from the assembly s catechism was\\ndeemed heresy, the educated rejected doctrines which\\nthey deemed not corresponding to that aspect of benevo-\\nlence which is universally apparent. But when liberal\\nand enlightened men ventured to call in question, popu-\\nlar and hereditary doctrines when clouds of mysteries\\nbegan to be lifted from the ark of truth when the rub-\\nbish of visionaries and of metaphysical cobwebs were", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 71\\nswept off; when new arguments were presented to the\\nmind, and the heart was approached through the under-\\nstanding when a rational system was found to emanate\\nfrom the gospel when men were shown in the doctrines,\\nin the character and the example of Jesus Christ, the\\nperfect model of moral virtue, such as antiquity sought\\nfor, but could not find when, like Sir J. Reynolds, who\\nat first saw no beauty in Raphael, yet, who at length\\nby long contemplation, understood the character, and\\nrose to a full conception of the superlative excellence of\\nthe painting when they felt the dormant spark of piety\\nkindle in their breasts, by such contemplations the snow\\nof indifference melted away, and the warm and genial\\nrays of a mild, animating and satisfying religion diffused\\nthemselves, and operated on the whole character and\\nlife, and fostered that beneficent spirit which now distin-\\nguishes the wise and good.\\nThus has been removed all pretence of the ignorant of\\nfollowing the example of their betters, for it is now as un-\\nfashionable to affect disbelief, as it is to be barbarous or\\nrude.\\nExceptions occur, which come within the scope of Sir\\nHumphrey Davy s remarks, that education in great cit-\\nies, forced on the population, in all that regards science,\\nmust be superficial, in consequence of which some be-\\ncome idle and conceited, and above their usual occupa-\\ntions, scepticism and discontent with the order of things\\nfollow. Whereas in Scotland, education is sought for,\\nas a distinct object of interest or freedom. The excep-\\ntionable class however, in this country, is small; yet when\\none is removed from the control of that public opinion\\nwhich suppresses the corruption of character, he becomes\\nin the country a great nuisance. Such a case happened\\nin one of the towns through which we passed, and as", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nthat town has an item of ancient history among its tra-\\nditions, it may be worth noting.\\nThere was no great gulf between Massachusetts and\\nNew Hampshire, so that the ladies of former days might\\neasily pass to the arms of their beloved. There was no\\ncrabbed ferryman to resist all importuners who had not\\nthe golden branch, nor was there any chance of rescue,\\nas at Gretna Green but there was a line of division as\\nimpassable as the boundary of both States could make it.\\nA great stone marked with mystic characters, projected\\nat one corner of the road, and whoever escaped encoun-\\ntering this without being overturned, was in two minutes\\nbeyond the reach of Massachusetts law but whoever was\\nupset, instead of being married, was liable to he seized\\nby the Sheriff, and remanded to durance vile.\\nThe Clergyman s house was divided by the boundary\\nline of the two states, so that the father and mother might\\nbe in one room, remonstrating and protesting against the\\nmarriage, while the happy couple stood in the other room,\\nand in the sight of the parents receiving the benediction,\\nand exchanging the wedding ring, according to law.\\nMany a gay pair were thus united, but the union of the\\nStates, rendered the practice unnecessary.\\nMany a pleasant tale used to be told concering these\\nstolen matches, and many a sad one has drawn tears from\\nsympathetic eyes.\\nSince these things were common, a Clergyman resided\\nin this house and whose parishioners and acquaintance\\ncherish his memory with uncommon respect. Not think-\\ning any system infallible, he adhered to the apostolic\\nfaith, and cultivated a cheerful rather than a gloomy the-\\nology.\\nHe was a man of great erudition, an elegant classical\\nscholar a wit, a subdued humorist, possessed great con-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIJPISEOGEE. 73\\nversational talents, and diffused cheerfulness and happi-\\nness, not only through his own house, but through the\\nfamilies of all his parish. By his industry and economy\\nhe had become owner of a small farm. In haying\\ntime the people of the Parish came and mowed the\\ngrass, made the hay, and put it into his barn. After a\\nfew years had thus harmoniously passed, a certain super-\\nficial and conceited citizen took up his residence in the\\nparish. Such new comers are frequently disturbers of\\nthe peace of individuals, if not of the public; they know\\nmore than the poor country people, they understood poli-\\ncy and the theory of government, they have heard speech-\\nes in town meetings and caucuses, they have even taken\\npart in debating clubs they have approached greatness,\\nas they have eaten at the same table in the hall with Sen-\\nator Lancelot and\\nAmong the improvements, the citizen suggested the\\nabolition of slavery not the African, but the Clerical sla-\\nvery to which the innocent people were subjected. He\\nwondered they had so long submitted to taxes for the sup-\\nport of a rich clergyman. In short, he made such im-\\npressions, that operations under his directions were com-\\nmenced at first with great caution. The first attack\\nwas on the out-works, and by merely withdrawing part\\nof the annual assistance they had given the Parson in\\nhaying time. They accordingly appeared as usual, but\\ninstead of tending and carrying in the hay, they cut the\\ngrass and left it, observing that the Parson was rich\\nenough to hire men to finish it, or make his ojvn improve-\\nment. The next sabbath the minister went throuirh the\\nusual exercises, and then after naming the text, closed\\nthe book, observing he left it to them to make the improve-\\nment, as they had undoubtedly grown able to do without\\nhis assistance. They took the reproof, and never after\\nomitted the hay. 7", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nWe now took a S. E. course, determining to land and\\npass the night at Tufionborough or Wolfeborough. After\\na pleasant passage we arrived at noon at the former place.\\nHere we found a party who had been making a slow and\\nrambling progress towards the White Hills. They were\\nfrom the South, and seemed to b6 tired of journeying\\nover hills and rocks. Some of the young men were evi-\\ndently out of humour. Two of them appeared to be too\\nreckless to disguise their feelings, even from us strangers,\\nfor after dinner and the departure of the ladies, two\\nPennsylvanians, Charles Marvel and Robert Miller, be-\\ngan rather a fierce altercation, about affairs in which we\\nhad no concern. I toll you what, Charles, said Rob-\\nert, I have freely owned that my afiections have been\\nstrongly inclined towards Celia Howard. She has beau-\\nty, good temper, understanding but then I am not so\\ndull as to forget that the two first are contingencies, and\\nthough I like the girl, she discloses every now and then,\\npropensities that will not suit my finances, my business,\\nmy station, nor my ideas of domestic happiness. Gold\\nwatches, gold chains, and splendid habilaments, are in-\\ndications of wealth, and when assumed for fashion s sake\\nonly, without the means of continual change and augmen-\\ntation, show false colors. Where the expense cannot be\\ncontinued after marriage, the pride of woman is mortified\\nand the affections of men are cooled or suppressed. Thus\\nfor real trifles, the calm dignity of a contented mind and\\na happy establishment, are converted into chagrin and\\ndiscontent. For even good understandings are pervaded\\nby the omnipotency of fashion. Then discontinue\\nyour civilities, said Charles, or you may be forced to\\nsacrifice happiness to honour That you may reap\\nthe benefit. Ha, Ha, Ha!\\nAt WolfeborouEjh we again encountered our wise boat-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO VVINNIPISEOGEE. 75\\nman. He was, he said, conducting a raft of timber de-\\nsigned to be landed at the east end of the Lake, and then\\nto be conveyed by land to Portsmouth. He had, he said,\\nfurnished timber and laborers, for some of the public\\nworks in Boston during the mayorship of Mr. Quincy, and\\nspoke in the highest terms of the urbanity of that gentle-\\nman, and of the extent and grandeur of his views. But\\nyou know, said he, that the new revolutionary wheel is\\ndragged up hill with great difficulty when it has sur-\\nmounted the top, it descends with vast rapidity tearing\\nup the old roads, tumbling down the stone walls, and\\nmaking horrid destruction, till it arrives at, and some-\\ntimes moves along the level plain but when its first im-\\npetus is expended it may be approached with safety, and\\nbecome the most useful of engines. Cities and Towns,\\nas well as States and nations are liable to such concus-\\nsions. My Cousin Daniel who lives in Boston, enter-\\ntains us, when he comes home to Thanksgiving, with an\\naccount of your turns and overturns, dilapidations and\\nimprovements, since old Boston has been elevated to the\\ndignity of a city. At first, he says it was a rage a\\ncommotion a fever but has now subsided, for\\nNow comes the reckoning, when tlie banquet is o er,\\nThe dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.\\nI learn from him of no abatement of popular jealousy,\\nor of struggles to possess power. Mayor duincy is ac-\\ncused of encumbering the city with a debt, which must\\nenslave future generations. How absurd future genera-\\ntions will enjoy more of the benefit, than the present, and\\nit is right they should pay a proportion of the expense.\\nDaily waste should be paid for by the consumer, but per-\\nmanent structures should always descend with the incum-\\nbrance of a part of the cost. You have nothing to blame\\nyour Mayor for, unless it be .for undertaking too much at", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nonce. Without ardour, or enthusiasm, enterprise would\\nfail. His views were large and noble his plans judi-\\ncious, his adoption of the projects of improvements of-\\nfered by others, ready and free from jealousy his capacity\\nfor business almost without a parallel, and his industry\\nremarkable. He might have involved your city in too\\nheavy a debt, had your council not checked him a little\\nbut subsequent councils got alarmed, and instead of res-\\ntraining him with an easy bridle, put a double bit and curb\\non his head, and then added fetters to his feet, render-\\ning it impossible for him to leap, scarcely able to trot, and\\nvery inconvenient even to hobble. All this proceeds from\\nselfish, or narrow and local views, which always prevail\\nin such councils as you have, where many want to govern,\\nand often, if they cannot govern, will embarrass. Where\\ncouncils fluctuate, there is no permanency of principle\\ntemporary expedients supercede system, and system alone\\ncan unite the present with the future, on subjects that will\\nbe equally beneficial to both. As a general principle, I a-\\ngree with the Virginians respecting public men, apologise\\nfor their errors of judgment, and defend them if injured.\\nThough we had made many fatiguing excursions by day\\nwe were resolved to encamp on the eminence, on which\\nthe young lady before mentioned experienced so much\\npleasure. It lay not far out of the road to Plymouth, and\\nwe arrived at the foot of the hill, just on the edge of eve-\\nning. In broad day-light, nature seems to be in haste to\\nperform her day-task fervour pervades the atmosphere\\nand stimulates vegetation into audible movements the\\nforest impatiently pushes up its branches the flowers\\nand the grass spread upward the wind whips the waters\\ninto chaffing. In the night, when man falleth into deep\\nsleep, and all nature is in repose, he attempts to grasp at\\nsomething real, but every thing is floating in space. He\\nlooks abroad, all is silent, calm and impressive. He seems", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIOIsr TO WIN.VIPISEOGEE. 77\\nStand on earth in the midst of waters. Transient gleams\\nof light glancing from the lake, play on the flickering\\nleaves of the forest trees dark caverns ajDpear between\\nmasses of dense woods light steps over these, and leaps\\non the bald peaks that approach the clouds, gradually the\\nrays slide down the western side, vast vallies of darkness\\nare for a moment encanopied with light, which soon gain-\\ning a suflicient height, fall instantly below long shadows\\nof horns stretch before on the meadow, then shorter, and\\nthe head of the recumbent ox appears resting on his\\nnether hoof The moon beams, checked by dark masses\\nof distant woods, seem to halt, like waters intercepted by\\na dike, till flowing over the edge, they drop into the bos-\\nom of the wood, and fill the whole scene with a flood of\\nlight. Man is silent, but nature is active within the\\npulsation of the heart is quickened by emotions of the\\nsoul filled with serene sensibility to the moral sublimity\\nof nature; yet he feels as of the earth, earthly and insig-\\nnificant. Something like this we felt while watching the\\nmoon s advance, gradually throwing light, and calling\\ninto life objects that were a few moments before buried\\nin oblivion.\\nWe remained on the hill almost unconscious of the pas-\\nsage of time. The whole scene was soft and beautiful.\\nThe surface of the lake was smooth and silvery, reflect-\\ning the moon and stars and the high trees which hang\\nover the projecting points the eye was in constant ex-\\nercise, yet not distracted by too great a variety of objects.\\nThe occasional tinkling of cow bells from the woods, as-\\nsumed a sweet and melancholy tone, as they fell on the\\near. The associating faculty was busy, and we could not\\nhelp imagining how pleasing would be the effect, in such\\na scene and time, if the chiming of a multitude of distant\\nbells swinging slow, with solemn roar, over this wide\\nwatered shore. 7*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78 EXCURSION TO WliVxVIPISEOGEE.\\nThe bells of the city produce no peculiarly agreeable\\nsensation, when heard in the streets but to a person el-\\nevated on a remote eminence, above the noise of this low-\\ner world, where the breaks and stops of the different ring-\\ners do not intrude, the harmony of mingled sounds 13\\nperceptible. Like the rays of light, the rays of music seem\\nto approximate a common centre at a great height to lose\\nall their discordancy to blend and produce a melody pe-\\nculiarly sweet. I sometimes think that there is great af-\\nfectation among amateurs. But where there is no temp-\\ntation for display, the natural sensations will prevail.\\nWe were all silent, but it was the silence of intense feel-\\ning, when the sounds of distant music made us stretch\\nour heads towards the points from which they came. Oar\\nminds were in perfect accordance with the scene around\\nus. Shut out from objects which divide and distract, a\\nsingle one was sufficient to absorb all our attention. As\\nthe music drew near, the points whence it came seemed\\nto multiply. It now glided smoothly and whisperingly\\nfrom trees and forest, here and there making a melan-\\ncholy echo, among the declivities and caverns and now\\nleaped from hill to hill, spread over the surface of the lake,\\nand ascended to our station. Every thing around seemed to\\nbe getting into motion, when the instrument ceased play-\\ning, and the human voice only was heard. But the ces-\\nsation only served to increase our delight, and by again\\nuniting, showed how the power of music is exalted by the\\nblended strains of natural and scientific notes.\\nMilton himself, the most perfect of poetic harmonists re-\\nquires the full-voiced choir below as a necessary ac-\\ncompaniment to the pealing organ. We perceived a\\nboat approaching, and were soon saluted by a choir of vil-\\nlage singers in full chorus. Dr. M. and Counsellor J. had\\ncontrived this entertainment, for the double purpose of", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO AVINNIPISEOGEE. 79\\ngratifying several of their young friends with the enjoy-\\nment of a moon-light sail, and of surprising us strangers,\\nwith what they supposed would be a novel species of a-\\nmusement. And truly it was as new, as it was delightful.\\nAlmost suppressing our breathing, to catch without inter-\\nruption, the melodious strains which came floating through\\nthe air, animating the hills and woods, thought was ex-\\ncluded and sensation only prevailed.*\\nIf such perfect abstraction could be obtained at con-\\ncerts, would not the effect of the music be increased\\nAbate the exercise of all the other senses, and is not that\\nof hearing rendered more exquisitely susceptible of the mel-\\nody of vocal or instrumental music Is it not almost\\nimpossible to abstract our attention from impertinent ob-\\njects from the skill of the singers in touching the keys\\nthe flexure of the arms and body accompanying the move-\\nment of the bow, or from the evident disposition for display,\\nvisible in the affectation of feeling, or the contortions and\\ngrimaces, or the conversation of fine eyes, inviting smiles,\\nor expectations of applause in the singer who is the object\\nof observance, either in the orchestra, or in the church?\\nOn returning to our lodgings we found it deserted by\\nmost of the company we left there. Some had gone to\\nInvitation to the Concert of a female singer.\\nEustig, tomorrow, if the world permit,\\nWe ll fill some corner of the ample Pit,\\nAnd listening to the Siren of the Stage,\\nLose the remembrance of our busy age\\nRapt in deliglit of her melodious strain,\\nForgot of life, the interest and the pain.\\nOn life s dry desert, snatching as we pass.\\nOne breathing moment on a tuft of grass\\nTo warm our bosoms we require no wine,\\nMortal forgetting, we become divine\\nOf pleasure s cup unlimited we drink,\\nNor of the future, nor departed, think.\\nAbsorbed in bliss long may the concert last,\\nUnclogged with what is coming what has passed!\\nZ.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nthe White Hills some to the east end of the lake in or-\\nder to visit Dover, and four had gone to spend a few\\ndays in a nearer neighbourhood to Squam Lake. This\\ndefection was soon repaired by other arrivals, among whom\\nwas a newly married couple, Mr. and Mrs. W. The la-\\ndy is the daughter of a poet, and sister of an eminent\\nscholar therefore we were not unreasonable in expecting\\nto find in her conversation, some of the qualities of both.\\nTom, whose musical talents had not been in requisition\\nfor 24 hours, and who had more than once been heard to\\nsoliloquize on paucity of taste, (repeating, The wren doth\\nsing as sweetly as the lark, when neither is attended.\\nAnd I think the nightingale, were she to sing by day,\\nwhen every goose is cackling, would be thought no better\\na musician than the wren, and who had been frost bit-\\nten for some time, now had his tongue thawed. The\\ngentleman was talkative, and the lady made for travelling;\\nshe was at home in half an hour, and without any effort,\\nbecame as it were, an old acquaintance with every body\\nin the house. The female coterie was of the right num-\\nber, three Two are dull, four or five interfere, and\\ninterrupt each other some confusion likewise arises,\\nfrom a desire in one or two, to exhibit an emphatic arm,\\na set of poetic teeth, a persuasive lip, a seducing smile,\\nsome personal or mental accomplishment, or too strong\\nand forward a desire to contribute to the amusement of\\nthe company. It is not always that we meet with stran-\\ngers of education, willing to dispense their mental wealth\\nwithout a long acquaintance with their casual associates\\nbut when they engage in the commerce of conversation,\\nthe interchange is brisk so said a gentleman, and so we\\nfound it. I declare, said a southern traveller, these\\nYankee girls are vastly sharp and shrewd. Yes, sir, and\\nyou will find as you become acquainted, that they possess", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 81\\nStrong reasoning minds, even where they have not had the\\nadvantage of much modern instruction but where a prop-\\nper cultivation has been given, few exceed them in apti-\\ntude either in the application of the brilliant colours of\\nimagination, or in the sedate expansion of good sense.\\nThey are not furnished, to be sure, with all the nicknack-\\nery of city or boarding school education, but with a great\\ndeal of useful knowledge. They cannot bring into con-\\nversation the titles of all the new novels, but you will find\\nthem on further acquaintance to be, as the divines say,\\nwell grounded in the solid writings of the great authors\\nof the past and present age. They lose nothing, but\\nrather gain, by their remoteness from circulating libraries,\\nfor, limited to a ^e\\\\v authors, they read them over, and\\nover again, till the matter, as Dr. Johnson says, is con-\\ncocted and the essence enters into the marrow. Princi-\\nples are adopted, which have stood the test of experience.\\nCritical acumen is acquired, and taste perfected. The\\nsolid, or fine thoughts, the peculiarities and beauties of\\nstyle are all noticed, and characterized by a discriminat-\\ning judgment. And to these which have afforded so\\nmuch exercise to the mind, they can return with as much\\ndelight, as the great actor said he did to Shakspeare,\\nwho, during a study of twenty years, discloses new beau-\\nties on every daily perusal.\\nThose who devour books, acquire a taste for variety\\nand stimulants only. Shakspeare and Milton, and all\\nthe old authors are, with them, unintelligible or tedious.\\nThey want subjects for conversation, or rather for gossip\\nand chit-chat these swim on the surface. Those who\\nhave no access to the running books of the day, are free\\nfrom temptation. They drink at the fountain, not at the\\nsoda shop. They bathe in the deep river, and not in the\\nshallow though smooth canal. Standard works, both an\u00c2\u00ab", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGE E.\\ncient and modern, are read by them till every passage is fa-\\nmiliar, every beauty developed, every proposition examin-\\ned, till they are fully possessed of the spirit and genius\\nof the author, and sensible of the thoughts that breathe,\\nand words that burn. If the classic scholar returns\\nwith delight to his Virgil or his Cicero; if the musician\\ncontinues to be enraptured with the same song or tune af-\\nter a thousand repetitions the real lover of literature\\nwill equally enjoy the improving, undissipating seclusion\\nof the country, where he can give his heart and soul to\\nthe contemplation of passages, where great minds have\\nconcentrated imperishable truths, and expressions that\\ncharm the sense, fill the imagination, enlarge the mind,\\nand cherish and improve the affections of the heart.\\nBut you must allow, said the gentleman, that in\\nall sciences, and even in general literature, modern works\\nare to be preferred, where both cannot be had and were\\nall the ancients to be lost, all their original ideas would\\nsurvive, since modern literature repeats with improvement\\nall that was said before. For this reason, I would re-\\nverse the order of study, and ascend through the present\\nto the past, as we trace a stream to its source. In Phi-\\nlosophy, Morality and History, this is the most proper\\nmethod. The chart of science and of mind, like that of\\nGeography, must be very imperfect for want of experience\\nand extent of country to survey. The ancients had no\\nexplorers of human passion, to delineate like the moderns,\\nevery fold and intricacy of the human heart, and to give\\nnot only the exterior character, but the source, the prog-\\nress, the working and the termination, of each and all the\\npassions, as they operate and affect individuals, or in so-\\nciety or private life or in national concerns.\\nAdmitting, continued the gentleman, all which\\nyou and the Roman Orators have alleged, regarding the\\ndurable pleasures of literature; and even that deeper and", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 83\\nmore intense attention may be given to studies in seclu-\\nsion, yet I think the living comments of the world, the\\ncollision of opinions, and the vivid discussion on all sub-\\njects of which we read, give the mind an elasticity, which\\nit cannot acquire, and so well preserve, as in the sportive\\nor manly exercises of the social Gymnasium. And for\\nman, I am sure, these purposes are almost exclusively to\\nbe fulfilled in cities. The brightest scholars lose their\\nlustre in the shades of retirement, they lose their energy\\nfor want of that nourishment which the city affords. To\\nknow how the world goes, we must not only have access\\nto libraries, cabinets, the galleries of artists, public spec-\\ntacles, and foreigners of intelligence but we must watch\\nthe revolutions of opinions, and trace the slow growth of\\ntruth, from its first germination in the mind of the philos-\\nopher, to its complete expansion under the potent influ-\\nence of some popular geniuses. In fact, daily communi-\\ncation with the active world, and all that belongs to it,\\nwith an interchange of thought on every subject of our\\nobservation, is the only means by which studies can be\\nrendered useful, and these cannot be had in the spare\\npopulation of the country.\\nReal learning is shown judiciously, only by results the\\ndullest of all society is a recluse and absorbed author. I\\nwas once shut up six ^yeeks in a cabin with one. The\\nperson was present, but the soul was not with me. Every\\nremark was forced every proposition assented to. This\\n1 thought was too bad give me opposition, give me a\\nflow of sentiment, observation, wit, or even levity.\\nEvery thing I see of genius, reconciles me to talkative\\nignorance this has novelty, character, original nature,\\nfeeling, aptitude. Living conversation is better than that\\nwhich is reported of the dead. The principal interest\\nfrom reported conversation, arises not so much from the", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nfacts themselves, as from the agreeable dress in which\\nthey are presented by the fancy of the reporter. S. E.\\nwithout an abundance of learning, and with very little\\ncompass of imagination, has an aptitude in seizing on the\\nmerest trifle, decorating it with prismatic colors, tossing\\nit into the air, and bandying it about with the elastic\\nspring of untired sportiveness. Conversation in most com-\\npanies is frequently heavy and common-place or it is\\nmeant to be argumentative and scientific. An intermix-\\nture by way of parenthesis, makes an agreeable variety,\\nbut dissertation should be adjourned to the lecture room.\\nMen go into company to relax and recreate their minds;\\nthey may be disgusted with frivolity, but they will hate\\npedantry. In the city, D. was generally meditative. P.\\nseemed always to be plumed with poetic feathers Dr.\\nwith classical allusions, happily applied, smart and apt.\\nG. elucidated by science. L. S. and A. P. sprinkled\\njurisprudence. O. answered on commerce and finance.\\nM. the general literature and speculation of the times\\nsuch made up a delightful evening party for conversation.\\nThere was no pause of intellect. To set down what was\\nsaid would be to reduce the lively to dullness the hap-\\npy narrative, to dry detail the just remark, to common-\\nplace, and every well timed witticism to stale jocularity.\\nMedicine Disease Ariosto Milton Shakspeare\\nQeiilis Aqueducts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Treadwell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Greek tree\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dr. Popkins\\nOratory James Otis William Tudor La Fayette\\nhis poetical life Romance of character Waverley\\nWhat a variegated and brilliant picture would be given\\nby one who possesses the happy faculty of sketching scenes\\nof society, with all the lights and shades, the graceful col-\\nors, and accurate outline, which this group thus afford-\\ned", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 85\\nThis to be sure may belong to male society of the\\ncity, and why should women be unfurnished with the\\nlike resources Many are, but it is to be feared that\\neven among the best educated, and most highly accom-\\nplished, the slavery to which fashion has reduced them,\\ndemands too great a sacrifice of time, and burdens them\\nwith such heavy tasks, that little leisure is afforded for\\nother pursuits.\\nBuonaparte, that unmerciful tyrant, yet gallant master\\nof ceremonies, was the only man who could dictate to\\nladies on the art of dressing according to him, dress\\nshould never be the subject of meditation, but of action.\\nAnd for this, instead of hours, minutes only should be em-\\nployed. Women living in cities therefore, in addition to\\nthe various other circumstances which dissipate attention\\nto the solid mental culture which women of the country\\nenjoy, have a great part of their time occupied for person-\\nal decoration. This, said the gentleman, reminds me\\nof an affair at the springs, somewhat like a trial of strength\\narising from an accidental meeting of two accomplished\\nyoung ladies, whose education had been conducted under\\nvery different circumstances. In all parties made up for\\nsummer excursions, there is generally some favorite ob-\\nject of attention. Sometimes a distinguished beauty is\\nthe magnet, till beauty alone becomes too insipid to excite\\nadmiration sometimes a dashing heroine drags the\\nworld at her chariot wheels, till her romantic exploits\\nand boisterous career, fatigue curiosity itself; sometimes\\na wit, rather feared than beloved, serves to ariiuse and\\nanimate, what would otherwise be a dull company, and\\nsometimes the party is fortunate in the possession of one,\\nwho is soon discovered under an unassuming exterior, to\\npossess genius and talents, and a disposition to communi-\\ncate liberally to the entertainment of her friends.\\n8", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 EXCURSION TO VVINNIPISEOGEE.\\nTwo parties of well-bred and well-informed gentle-\\nmen and ladies, arrived at the Springs about the same\\ntime. One came from the metropolis of N. E. and one\\nfrom the interior of Connecticut. A congeniality of feel-\\ning and sentiment, soon brought them into close intimacy,\\nso that they became as one company of long established\\nintimates and friends. A slight superiority of good sense\\na striking brilliancy of imagination a pleasantness of hu-\\nmour an acuteness in observation a tact in the adap-\\ntation of conversation to the humour of the company\\na sprightly wit or an artless simplicity with its careless\\nbursts of genuine, natural naivete, either is sure to make\\nthe possessor queen of the fairy ring.\\nOne lady in each party, was soon distinguished by the\\ngentlemen, as having the supremacy, vi here all appeared\\nto be nearly equal.\\nAt table one day there was a discussion respecting a\\npublic and a private education, in which the ladies took a\\nsmall part, leaving, of course, no want of sprightliness in\\nthe midst of profound sense.\\nWhen the ladies had retired the subject was renewed\\nwith an especial reference to some of the females of their\\nown company, as affording very fair examples of the merit\\nof both systems.\\nCol. B. strenuously maintained that the private educa-\\ntion of Miss. C in the seclusion of the country, with\\nvery little intercourse with the literary world, and few\\nopportunities of becoming acquainted with general society,\\nor even with persons of either sex distinguished for their\\ntalents, was a circumstance more propitious to the devel-\\nopment, and much more so to the perfect improvement\\nof the faculties of her mind, than could be obtained from\\nthe most splendid education establishment, united with a\\nlong and extensive acquaintance with the world.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 87\\nY on the contrary observed, that though he ad-\\nmired the lady in question, and was not a little astonished\\nat the novelty and justness of her remarks, he doubted\\nvery much if she could parallel the accomplished Miss\\nL vvho, in addition to her being a poet of the first\\norder, and a general scholar, was polished and perfected\\nby conversation and intercourse, with the most refined so-\\nciety in Europe and America. Their native powers\\nmight be equal but power must have materials on which\\nto exert itself. The marble must be quarried this may\\nbe done by a laborer the image of man may be sketched\\nby a savage but he must have viewed the human figure\\nin all its variety of form and attitude, must have studied\\nthe exterior development of intellect, under all its various\\nemotions, whether of heroic excitement, or deliberative\\ngrandeur when the turn of a battle or the cast of a vote,\\nis to obliterate, or exalt a nation, before he could, like\\nChantry, give to the block of marble that character of\\nWashington, serene in dignity, and protective in influ-\\nence. Genius, without a wide range of associating prin-\\nciple, will be dormant. Ability to combine, may exist;\\nan aptitude to receive impressions may exist but\\na limited sphere of observation, cannot supply that\\nmultifarious store of images, among which, a rich fancy\\ndelights to revel, and from which intuitively as it were,\\nit selects the ilkistrations of those subjects on which it di^\\nlates uttering truths not only powerful in themselves,\\nbut in terms so appropriate and perspicuous as to arrest\\nattention, and delighting the imagination, by the beauties\\nwith which they are adorned, and by the novelty and\\nskill by which a thousand sources both of nature and art,\\nhave been made tributary to the general effect.\\nCould the ladies be brought into a situation where\\nsome interesting subject might present itself, as it were\\ncasually, so that their powers should be called into action", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nwithout either thinking it to be a design, as a trial of\\nstrength, we might form a more correct judgment re-\\nspecting the two modes of education.\\nAn opportunity soon offered. The conversation grad-\\nually advancing in interest, the gentlemen in order to re-\\nmove every obstruction to the free exercise of their re-\\nspective talents, retired, yet secretly contrived to hear.\\nThe conversation was continued for a considerable time,\\nwith great spirit and intelligence, with great sweetness of\\nmanner, and plain, yet choice and elegant expressions.\\nThe gentlemen from the specimen came to the conclusion\\nthat by different means, both had attained the highest in-\\ntellectual improvement; possessed like endowments, and\\nhad they exchanged circumstances, each would have ob-\\ntained the same point, and equality of excellence.\\nWhat is the reason the pen moves over soft and thin\\nItalian paper, which costs two hundred and fifty cents a\\nream, more easily than over these leaves of an old book\\nthat cost nothing, and have remained idle and useless for\\nmore than fifty years in the Inn-keeper s desk, for he had\\nno other paper I have at home a score of half- blank\\nbooks, some a century old, which would supply me with\\npaper as many years, even were I, like some great au-\\nthors, or some great extractors, to fill a sheet every even-\\ning. It will not be denied that this paper made fifty or\\nsixty years ago from linen, is much stronger than the\\npresent fabric of sofi; and spongy cotton. Should this be\\ndoubted by the strenuous advocates for home-manufac-\\ntures, we need only refer to public records, the paper of\\nwhich is as tenacious as the unrolled papirus of Hercula-\\nneum or to the printed volumes of the sixteenth and sev-\\nenteenth centuries, which seem from their undecayability\\nas well as from their ponderosity, to be destined for eter-\\nnal duration j whether they attain it or not, is another\\nquestion.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 89\\nThere may be something very appalling to your imagi-\\nnation, at the sight of a great bound book spread before\\nyou, ready, waiting to receive any impressions you may\\nplease to make upon its fair and innocent countenance.\\nPerhaps the mind casts its eye back on the unimproved\\nyears of its existence on the generations through which\\nit has travelled without bearing on its leaves, a single in-\\ndication of the great and the wise the learned and the\\nwitty the elegant and accomplished, who have had it be-\\nfore them, and thence you hesitate lest you should dese-\\ncrate with mean and idle thoughts, what so many before\\nyou have left untouched. Perhaps the durable quality of\\nthe paper is the cause of its rejection. You have noticed\\nhow much the ashes of the dead, has been disturbed by\\nthe revivification of memoranda, made while the writer\\nwas waiting for his boots, and left on the table to be\\nbrushed into the fire by the chamber-maid, whose ideas\\nof the neatness and order required by every bachelor,\\nwould not suffer any incumbrance to remain in the room\\nshe honored with her superintendence.\\nBut alas! alas! these innocent memoranda fall into\\nless careful hands.\\nHad such memoranda, however, been made on paper of\\nthe present improved age, the memoirs of a thousand men\\nwould have been lost to posterity.\\nBut while the texture of the old style paper, admitted\\nof the manuscript s being passed from hand to hand\\nfrom generation to generation supplying materials for\\nmagnalia, and anecdotes for male and female gossip, and\\ncharacters and incidents for novels and romancers\\nwhile it endured the thumping of greasy spinners, and\\nbid defiance to the smoke of the brew-house, the new\\nmanufacture would have disappeared as down before the\\nwind.\\n8*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nNo none of the cogitations would prevent my writing\\nin the blank books but to sit down to write in a great\\nbook, has so much formality in the act looks so much\\nlike laboring to become an author, that I never would do\\nit, unless I were compiling a work of public utility in\\nwhich case I would leave nothing afloat no loose paper\\nshould be exposed to the dust-brush of the servant every\\nfact and idea on the subject should be noticed in the\\nblank-book, duly headed, registered, and numbered. This\\nmechanical arrangement assists if not supplies memory,\\nsaves time, and tends to correctness. On the same prin-\\nciple, I prefer Italian paper if you want strength and\\ndurability, it possesses both those qualities. It is smooth,\\neasy, and soft to write on it can be squared, folded, and\\nif you have several half sheets, stitched, and be inade to\\noccupy a very small place in your pocket-book, accessible\\nwhen riding, walking, sailing, or resting at an Inn, and\\nwhen you have done with it, makes very tractable papil-\\nlotes.\\nMentioning this subject to Dr. M. as we sat one evening\\nat the window, looking at the play of the moon beam on\\nthe gently agitated surface of the lake below, his meta-\\nphysical fancy immediately began to work. I submit\\nto the learned, said he, if it. is not solely the power\\nof association. It is a delicate, a deep, and perhaps a\\nmetaphysical question but hyposhesis is deducible, and\\nmay be supported by anology. Some I know assert,\\ndogmatically, metaphysically, or chemically, that what-\\never had existence cannot be destroyed that the same\\nindentical particles in which the essence of a substance\\nresides, however separated and dispersed, will under\\nother circumstances, attract each other and assume a com-\\npact form. Others, not hardy enough to proceed further,\\nnor to consider curiously with Hamlet, say lazily that", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 91\\nit is vain to puzzle our heads with what cannot be brought\\nto a certainty, (saying with Bishop Heber,) in our pro-\\nfound ignorance of the world of spirits, though a direct\\ncontradiction of all the sober truths which cost the scho-\\nlastic age so much labor to investigate. But these mis-\\ntake the question, and argue about a spiritual existence,\\nand we about substance.\\nWe have substantial forms, and as all our ideas origin-\\nate in sensation, matter cannot be annihilated, why should\\nwe not rationally pursue the thread or fibre through all\\nits transitions and ramifications\\nTravellers, Missionaries, and Philosophers, concede that\\nthe soil of Jerusalem, notwithstanding the winds of the\\ndesert, and other causes, have shifted its surface a thous-\\nand times, is still the identical soil on which Solomon\\nstudied botany, and where the fair daughter of Judea\\nwent into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the\\nvalley, whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates\\nbudded. Yet this soil has assumed a form very different\\nfrom what it possessed, when Palestine was studded with\\nvillages, and the^whole country, from Lebanon to the\\nsea, and from the sea to the Euphrates, teemed with the\\nmost luxuriant vegetation.\\nAnd is there more irrationality in supposing that this\\nvery sheet of paper, may be composed of the particles\\nwhich formed, according to Ham.let s conception, the cloth\\nof a bung-hole, and that that same matter once was sus-\\npended on the mast of Cleopatra s barge when she sailed\\ngallantly down the silver Cydnos, when she came from\\nEgypt and the gentle winds were lodged in purple sails,\\nand gazing crowds stood panting on the shore? That\\nthese being captured by Caesar, and conveyed to Rome,\\nwere converted into the identical paper on which the\\npoets of that age wrote those immortal works which are", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nyet the delight of classical scholars. This supposition\\nonce admitted, the paper becomes a mental telescope,\\nunfolding to our view the distant Appenines and all the\\nmagnificence of Italian scenery\\nOn our arrival at H******, we found the village in\\ncommotion. Three competitors for patronage were on\\nthe ground a lecture on astronomy, an opera-manager,\\nand a ventriloquist. All could not be attended on the\\nsame evening, and no accommodation could be effected,\\nas each believed it would be a sacrifice of the dignity of\\nhis profession to relinquish its claim to priority. On the\\ninterference of a wise senator, it was finally settled that,\\nas the astronomical lecture would be more instructive to\\nyoung, and the ventriloquist more entertaining to the\\ngrown people, than a concert of theatrical music, three\\nevenings should be appropriated to the astronomer, and\\ntwo to the ventriloquist then only Saturday being left\\nfor the musician, and public amusements being disallow-\\ned on that evening, the company departed.\\nI met the ventriloquist descending the stairs just as I\\nentered the hotel. He seemed inclined to avoid recogni-\\ntion this being unavoidable, we niel, and being curious\\nto know a little of his history, I invited him into the\\nwithdrawing room.\\nR. P. is a man of color. Till the agfe of\\neleven, he was the favourite pet of a very respectable\\nmistress, and of her whole family, whom I after visited at\\nH*** about thirty miles from town. He was as agile as\\na squirrel, and as full of trick and mimickry as a mon-\\nkey. After leaving his relatives and the family of his mis-\\ntress, he went with a gentleman through various parts of\\nEurope passed into several services, and finally return-\\ned as an assistant to Rennie the Ventriloquist. After\\nRennie quitted the stage, P. commenced his carreer,\\nand soon married a respectable colored woman.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNfPISEOGEE. 93\\nFinding the profession profitable, he endeavoured to\\nplease the public by rendering his exhibitions more va-\\nrious, and improved his power of ventriloquism by observa-\\ntion and exercise.\\nHe told me that during the last twenty years he had\\nvisited and exhibited in Europe, the West Indies, and\\nmost of the large cities of the United States generally\\nwith the most beneficial results to his finances.\\nThe good advice given to me while a child, said\\nhe, I trust was not thrown away it has always been\\npresent to my mind, and I hope has influenced my con-\\nduct. The experience of my whole life has confirmed\\nwhat my friends inculcated. My profession, you know,\\nSir, is exposed to corrupt influences, arid seldom leads to\\nany thing short of total destruction. It is looked upon as\\nthe lowest among the low, and therefore people allow no\\nmoral rectitude to one whose business consists in cheat-\\ning the senses. It is the province of a wise man to turn\\ncredulity and curiosity to his own advantage. It is the\\nmaxim of the politician as well as of the judge.\\nSeeing as I did, that few public performers withstood\\nthe temptations of dissipation, and finding that birds of\\nthe same feather flock together, I determined to avoid\\nthe entanglements of company and I could do this with-\\nout much exposure to the sarcasms of the witty, or the\\nimportunity of the idle, since the pretence of preparation\\nand experiment, for the succeeding exhibition, always\\nserved as an apology for retiring. Thus I have avoided\\ngambling, drinking, and idleness. But the surest an-^\\nchor, I thought, was to have some determinate object al-\\nways in view, and none appeared to me more decisively\\npowerful, than an independence that would secure me\\nfrom poverty and public charity, (the common fate of\\nStrollers), when advanced age, or youthful competitors", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94 EXCURSION TO AVINNIPISEOGEE.\\ndrove me from this temporary enjoyment. Having a\\ngood wife, well acquainted with country business, I con-\\ncluded, that instead of carrying her about with me as an\\nassistant, it would be better to have a home, which would\\nbe to her a congenial occupation, and to me a polar star,\\ntowards which I should always set my course.\\nI accordingly took up about two hundred acres of near-\\nly wild land in New-Hampshire, and laid out a plan of\\nimprovement. Hero, as I returned periodically from\\nmy excursions, I found a bank established, which gave\\ngood interest for my deposits. My purchase and my im-\\nprovements have cost me more than ten thousand dollars.\\nIt was not long, before I found it necessary to build a\\nhouse, and I thought I might as well have a genteel, as a\\nmean one. You may have seen it, Sir, as you passed from\\nConcord to Hanover. It is the original, as I have been\\ntold, from which the government of the State, did me the\\nhonor to model the State House. The natural coinci-\\ndence of professions probably suggested this. There I\\nhave reared a family, and should be very, happy to show\\nyou all the civilities in my power, when you pass that way\\nagain.\\nSome people, says Montesquieu, hate digressions,\\nbut I think he who understands their use is like one with\\nlong arms he has more objects within his reach.\\nFrom the time that we entered this region of mountains\\nand lakes, the eye has been kept in constant exercise\\nsometimes overlooking a vast expanse of water reposing\\nbetween immense ranges of hills, and often darkened by\\n.overshadowing mountains whose summits blended with\\nthe clouds: sometimes painfully stretching to penetrate\\nthrough a magnificent vista of hills and woods, beyond\\nwhich the rays of the sun were reflected from the silvery\\nsurface of many glistening lakes, and sparkling torrents", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 95\\nleaping over precipices, and dashing into deep caverns be-\\nlow. Now a canopy of light hung over a dark valley\\nreversing the order in which the poet has placed them,\\nwho says then shine the vales, etc.\\nOne cannot help contrasting the littleness of art with\\nthe magnificence of nature and of feeling impressions of\\nsublimity which all the skill of the describer or the painter\\ncannot adequately impart. Yet it is only after we have\\nseen the scenery of nature that we can properly appreciate\\nthe skill, however inadequate with which they describe\\nand delineate. There will be some prettiness in all sec-\\nondary describers, and there may be some strong points\\nin every original to discriminate the peculiarities of the\\nlandscape.\\nIt is difficult for a man like ****j with a mind filled\\nwith all kinds of knowledge, and a fancy which illumi-\\nnates every impression, whether of past or present objects,\\nwhile he is contemplating one scene, not to grasp at what\\nis beyond, as he finds his vision expanded by casual as-\\nsociation.\\nAnd is it to this opulence of knowledge that we owe,\\nnot only the masterly pictures, but the imagery and even\\nthe sentiment of that delightful poetry which satisfies be-\\nyond the reality of things Is it to the transferrence of\\nqualities from other objects, artfully combined, and taste-\\nfully disposed, around the dull and inanimate realities of\\nlife, that we owe our most pleasurable sensations\\nCould Milton have imagined an Eden, without hav-\\ning seen the Appenines? Could he have adorned\\nthe sun, without reference to a mortal beauty\\nThe golden-tressed sun\\nAll the day his course to run.\\nSo charmed are we with the general effect, that we de-\\nsire not to examine by a cold analysis the source of that", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\npower which the poet possesses. Yet when we do exam-\\nine, we find it to be imagination working on those mate-\\nrials which nature and art supply. Thus the celebrated\\ndescription of the hunting in Shakspeare, of the poets\\neye in a fine phrenzy rolling the antique fables the\\nfairy toys seething brains shaping phantasies brow of\\nEgypt all are of earthly origin every significant word\\nbelongs to some object, and has its origin in perception.\\nCould Shakspeare himself have conceived, what one of\\nhis commentators calls the most elegant passage in the\\nwhole compass of English literature, (and who can tell\\nwhy) without having the image of some ruined tenement\\nin his mind.\\nO thou that (lost inhabit in my breast,\\nLeave not the mansion so long tenantless,\\nLest, growing ruinous, the building fall.\\nAnd leave no monument of what it was 1\\nWho could have written\\nThus while I musing pause o er Shakspeare s page,\\nI mark, in visions of delight, the sage,\\nHigh o er the wreck of man, who stands sublime\\nA column in the melancholy waste,\\nIts cities humbled, and its glories past.\\nMajestic midst the solitude of time,\\nunless Palmyra, or some other ruin had furnished the\\nmaterials with which he constructed that magnificent\\nand melancholy stanza? So he must have recollected\\nNiagara, or some other cataract, who, by means of the\\npermanent fixes the image of the transitory making the\\nterms, belonging the cataract exactly applicable to the\\nclouds of the departing day, as we now behold them in\\nmajestic splendor, in the western horizon.\\nPoured o er the edge of azure clouds, a foam of silver white,\\nAnd down the midst, a cataract of gold and purple light.\\nThe vicissitudes of showers, storms, tempests, contrast-\\ned with a vivid sun, a clear atmosphere, a brilliant rain-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 97\\nbow, a bright Aurora Borealis, an unpicturable sun-set,\\nwith a thousand moving forms of every hue and tint\\nmoon-light, when every thing is clothed in the mellow\\nhue of sober gray a reviving day, when the birds awake,\\nthe herds rejoice, the waters sparkle, the woods resound,\\nthe salutation of the morning lark the glittering dew\\ndrops on tree and bush, and briar hedge and green orch-\\nard, and meadow sparkled with flowers the cheer of the\\ncock, the whistle of the robin, the bleating of sheep, the\\nlow of cattle, the tinkling of the cow-bell in the forest, the\\nnoise of the distant mill the dash of torrents hidden in\\nthe wilderness the woodman s axe throwing back the\\nsun-beams as he emerges from dark woods, and slowly as-\\ncends the distant hill the surface of the earth, here ri-\\nsing into inaccessible mountains, and abrupt precipices\\nthere undulating in hills, and sloping into valleys now\\nenclosing tracts of sand, and now immense forests em-\\nbosoming vast lakes, or bounding great oceans, gushing\\nmountain torrents, streams leaping over rocks, and\\nthrough fertile meadows gliding rivers, and pebbly\\nbrooks irrigating and fertilizing rich fields and vineyards,\\nthe buzz of cities the gaiety of assembled elegance and\\nbeauty choice music\u00e2\u0080\u0094 devotional concords painting\\nsculpture architecture ships gliding among islands\\nboats dancing on rivers fleets covering the ocean those\\nare facts, with which imagination has nothing to do\\nmost are tangible some are only seen we see the river\\nglide, the moon move, the mountain tower, the sea roll,\\nwe see the infant play, the youth rejoice, the man employ-\\ned, the aged calm all, all bestowing a sweet influence\\non the blood, causing it to move cheerily, and opening all\\nthe avenues by which pleasurable sensations are commu-\\nnicated along the nerves to awaken the intellect, and\\nwarm the heart.\\n9", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nHence the imagination is furnished. He who observes\\nmost, collects most. He who collects most is richest in\\nstores for imagination, and he who exercises most imagi-\\nnation on the materials which nature and art supply, in-\\ncreases his power of combining, and of creating new\\nforms, purified perhaps from the feculencies of earth, but\\nstill congenial with that etherial spirit which has existence\\nin every heart, and with those aspirations after something\\nmore elevated, than earth supplies, but of which nature\\ngives the promise in every rain-bow, as well as in every\\nfaculty of the human mind.\\nYet there is a feeling of enjoyment, in the absence of\\nthe variety, as well as of the stirring phenomena of na-\\nture. We want not the turbulence of the ocean the\\nuproar of the tornado the rattling of thunder rebounded\\nby every hill the fearfulness of lightning leaping from\\nrock to rock, from heaven to earth the rocking of the\\nearthquake the torrent of the volcano the sublime is\\nin the silence, the expansion, the awful serenity, the re-\\npose of the mountain in the moon-light, or the orb of day\\npenetrating every where, illuminating, and watching, and\\nvivifying from the minute ramification of a fibre, to the\\nextent of the universe.\\nThe eye, too much fatigued by constant exercise, re-\\nquired some relief; the light of the lamp itself was irritat-\\ning. As soon as this inconvenience was perceived, the\\nwhole medical faculty was put in requisition, and various\\nremedies were proposed. The majority of the company\\nagreed in recommending June ivater. Some was imme-\\ndiately brought from the cellar, and not long after its ap-\\nplication, we were sensible of its meliorating properties;\\nand began to speculate on its peculiar qualities.\\nI have often smiled at the pains city-ladies took to catch\\nJune water in a hnghi pewter basin, none other being al-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "EXCURSIOP^ TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 99\\nlowed to receive this precious lotion fur the eyes, and cos-\\nmetic for the complexion. In the city, however, it has\\nlost its reputation as a good cosmetic it neither bleach-\\nes a fair skin, gives bloom to a ruddy cheek, nor softness to\\na delicate and expressive countenance and those who have\\nthe least need of additions to their natural beauty, are of-\\nten the most sedulous to heighten their charms by artifi-\\ncial means. In this place it is in great repute, both ex-\\nternally as a cosmetic, and internally as a solvent of cru-\\ndities, and a specific for dyspepsy and an indigenous\\ndoctor, residing in a hermitage in the forest, pronounces\\nit to be a never failing remedy for disorders arising from\\nthe use of ardent spirits.\\nJune water possesses peculiar properties, but those\\nproperties depend on circumstances, not within the reach\\nof city ladies, and hence it has fallen into disuse.\\nThe atmosphere near the sea is always charged with\\nsaline particles; hence rain water in any season, ceases\\nto be a good solvent. Snow precipitates from the atmos-\\nphere all heterogeneous substances, as fining carries down\\nall feculencies in wine, and hence after the first fall of\\nsnow, the succeeding is perfectly pure, and possesses a\\npowerful solvent property, so as to penetrate leather, and\\ndrive us to the use of India rubber to exclude moisture\\nfrom the feet but after a long rain, the water is less pure\\nnear the sea, than at a distance.\\nIn mountainous and watery countries, the vapours that\\naccumulate into clouds, carry with them no salt, for\\nthe winds that come over the ocean deposit the saline par-\\nticles before they reach the interior. Yet the vapors that\\nform clouds, and descend in mists, dew, or rain, are im-\\npregnated with^ extraneous substances. Animals that\\nhave olfactory nerves of much greater sensibility than\\nthose of man, detect approaching or distant objects,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nwhich no man perceives. The Buffalo and the horse\\nwill scent a bear long before the most sentient hunter of\\nKentucky.\\nAt the distance of a hundred leagues from the Azores,\\ndofifs have been noticed to run to the wind-ward side of a\\nship, snuff the wind, and at length spring overboard and\\nswim directly towards the quarter whence the wind blew,\\nthough no man on board could perceive the least efflu-\\nvia in the breeze.\\nIt is not therefore in poetic vision, that those who are\\nmade to sail beyond the Cape of Hope beyond Mo-\\nzambique and far off at sea, rest on their oars to smell Sa-\\nbean odors from the shores of Araby the blest but a\\nreality well authenticated. The sublime and beautiful\\nconception of the powerful effect of such fragrancies, as\\nexpressed in the concluding line of the description, where\\nsensibility is attributed to the ocean, is worthy the genius\\nof Milton.\\nCheered with the grateful smell, old ocean smiles.\\nNow is the month of June, when the forest is in bloom\\nwith a thousand flowers that never wasted their fragrance\\nin the desert air of a hot-house, gentle gales, fanning\\ntheir odoriferous wings, steal perfumes, and waft them\\nthrough the whole atmosphere, impregnating the clouds\\nthat shed May flowers make the water, suspended in\\nthe air, a perfect compound of etherial essences, whose\\nexhility of particle is more subtile than what mortal chem-\\nistry can produce.\\nGross essential oils constitute all the peculiarities of\\ncosmetics and scented waters which are used in cities\\nbut the finer soul and spirit of these essential oils are car-\\nried up to blend with, and contribute to, the softness, and\\nto the balsamic, and solvent, and cosmetic properties of\\nthe water of the flower month and besides, they are so", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "EXCUllSlOJJ TO WiNNIPlSEOGEfi. 101\\nintimately blended, and so nicely proportioned, that they\\nlose their individuality, and hence cannot be detected\\nand separated by the finest organs, or most delicate\\ncontrivances of man. While they remain above, they af-\\nford an etherial sustenance to myriads of little butterflies,\\nwho dance and sport in gay fantastic rings living as we\\nthink on air, while they are feasting and bathing in ethe-\\nrial dews.\\nRivers and lakes likewise imbibe much of these essen-\\nces, as any person may sensibly feel, who enjoys the lux-\\nury of bathing in them.\\nIf you bathe in sea water, you are braced, and your skin\\nis rendered dry and acid. The solvent properties of lake-\\nwater, immediately remove the exudations which plate\\nthe most delicate skin renders soft and supple, and at\\nthe same time gives elasticity to the limbs and your\\nvery heart seems to breathe through the emancipated\\npores.\\nTis this water, caught in a wooden tub set in the\\nopen field after the rain has precipitated the motes that\\ndanced in the sun-beams, that is bottled, and kept sweet\\nand pure for several years, undergoing no fermentation\\nin any change of season or climate. And this was the\\nspecific for our inflamed eyes.\\nNo circumstance so well sets off* the charms of a lovely\\nwoman, as a little amiable altercation with her beloved.\\nWhy, Matilda, do you want to risk your precious limbs\\non the Lake Because I do, replied she. Because,\\nay, because the same word, implying the same reason\\nabsolute will from Eve, to this time. Then lohy did\\nyou ask the question? There again, another word be-\\nlonging exclusively to the Ladies vocabulary. This tohy^\\nso hateful to all master Miles dull scholars and this 6c-\\ncause as handy as if to a Justice of the Peace and\\n9*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\ntruly as convenient likewise to English, Irish, Scotch\\nand American women. How absurd, when you know\\nperfectly well it is seldom used through ignorance, but\\ngenerally implies a deference to your superior judgment\\nand when you proposed a question that implies an objec-\\ntion, now be honest, and tell me if you did not expect\\nthis flattering word, in compliment of your understand-\\nstanding? So over the lake the party prepared to sail or\\nrow.\\nWere I an inhabitant of this vicinity, and fond of wa-\\nter excursions, or desirous of gratifying my friends with\\nthis amusement, I certainly would have a barge, or a\\nlife-boat, light, convenient, and safe, notwithstanding half\\nthe pleasure of such excursions seems to arise from the\\ninconvenience of the accommodations, and the rickety\\nstate of the boats in use, putting in requisition, even to\\ntemerity, the courage of the adventurers, and requiring\\nthe incessant resort to expedients, to provide both for\\nsafety and accommodation. The boat has no awning\\nit may rain the sun may shine out and the rays may be\\nexcessively hot. The lady spread her umbrella.\\nThere is but one thowl. The lady had a knife, bor-\\nrowed for the purpose of taking plants up by the roots\\nhow lucky the handle just fitted. The bottom of the\\nboat is wet, India rubber boots defy water In short,\\nthe lady found a remedy for every defect. Perseve-\\nrance is good, my lord, and so to sea they went.\\nI honor such perseverance in a good cause it be-\\nspeaks character but when it degenerates to obstinacy,\\nit is to be reprobated, as it betokens ignorance and a de-\\nfective understanding. The lady came for pleasure, and\\nit contributed to her pleasure, to convince her husband\\nthat no cowardice on her part should ever disturb his\\nqueit. He should not be stopped on his journey by her", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 103\\ndread of a distant cloud. He should not be kept from\\nsailing, through her fear of drowning her temerity was\\nto confirm his confidence he was going, and why should\\nshe not go If he had married her for money, an estab-\\nlishment, a coach, /C. she would remain at home. Peo-\\nple are entitled to no more than they marry for a com-\\npliance with the terms, nay even with the concealed spi-\\nrit of the contract, is all that can be required. Her\\nhusband was going, and why should she fear going where\\nhe would venture. She had implicit confidence in\\nGeorge. Dr. Fothingal in one of his medical lectures,\\n(a very odd place to think of love advised his pupils\\nnever to put on a new coat to go a courting in, lest the\\nlady should like the new coat, and overlook the wearer,\\nMatilda regarded not coat, coach, nor establishment she\\nmarried for love of an affectionate heart and a good un-\\nderstanding. And George estimated rather the internal\\nthan the external wealth of his wife.\\nI minute these particulars for the sake of my friend\\nwho composes novels. She may imagine and depicture,\\nthe very attitudes, and gesture, and look which accom-\\npanied the expressions of Matilda. She may touch-off,\\nwith her usual grace, the evanescent exhibitions of the\\nfiner emotions of the heart, assuming various shapes and\\nshades now in the mocking lip the half closed and\\narchly contracted eye-brow the protrusion, in defiance,\\nof the slender foot the bending, insinuating, and now\\nassumed, haughty posture the waving of the arm so as\\nto display the voluptuous chest, as well as to repel ap-\\nproach the extension of the delicate little hand stretch-\\ned out in defiance, and the tripping away singing, fol-\\nlow, follow, follow c. 1 only request her to reject the\\nold moulds of prescriptive description. We have stereo-\\ntyped terms on French hangings which answer for rural", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nscenery. For moral beauty we want something more\\nappropriate and characteristic, especially when we want\\nto convey, even a faint idea of the peculiar graces which\\nbelong exclusively to that delightful era when youth and\\nbeauty are in the spring of happiness, and when every\\nunrestrained motion, is an emanation from the affections\\nand when benevolence beams on all around. Such is the\\nparadise which is perpetually present, when infancy and\\nyouth remain in the garden of Eden, without having tasted\\nthe tree knowledge through the temptation of delusive\\ndesires. And happily when one set is driven out of this\\nparadise, another enters, and creation succeeds creation.\\nIn the evening we had a delightful concert; the ladies\\nhad voices, and the gentlemen clarionets and flutes. A\\nFrench horn or some other instrument might have added\\nreverberations from the mountains which would have\\nmingled harmoniously with the notes below, but an Ital-\\nian chromatic exhibition would have been as incongruous\\nas St. Peter s church in the wilds instead of being in\\nRome. Every thing is good in time and place. Scien-\\ntific music, properly so called, is fitted to scientific ears\\nand scientific ears, like scientific taste, loves nature in\\nthe involutions of art. The instinct of nature prompts\\nchildren to imitation, and then they are natural and\\ncharmingly graceful the age of education substitutes\\nreason for instinct, and they continue to copy, but with\\nmeasured steps, and the stiffness of restraint. It may be\\nthat the manners and habits of professed musicians and\\namateurs, too often mar the pleasure that might result\\nfrom music. Real scientific taste, is often so exquisitely\\ncritical, as to produce much misery to the profession\\nand the manner in which this refinement is shown,\\ndisgusts the hearer and renders him insensible to\\nthe melody. The sensibilities of a man of taste are", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 105\\nentitled to respect, but that sensibility is liable to run in-\\nto the character of irritability. A stamp, a knitting of\\nthe brow, an angry look, reproof, impatience all, or eith-\\ner, demonstrate some error of which the company is not\\nsensible, and the whole pleasure of the music is destroyed\\nby the action. In addition to their susceptibility to the\\nharmony of sweet sounds, the consciousness of skill is\\ngratified by applause and popularity, and the performer\\nis mortified if they are withheld while we receive an ex-\\nquisite pleasure from less scientific performers, who pre-\\ntend to no skill, but please to sing and sing to please, by\\nsimple, sweet, and touching strains and no doubt most\\npeople receive more pleasure from hearing an artless sing-\\ner, than from all the thousand pretenders to science\\nwhich make up the usual concerts to the fashionable\\nworld.\\nAfter all, I may be very much mistaken, since I have\\nso absurd an ear, as to feel no delight from the utterance\\nof sounds that convey no sense nor sentiment. The vo-\\ncal music of the Theatre is therefore my delight, because\\nwithout book, I understand those articulating singers,\\nwho accompany the notes and instruments with the words\\nand sentiments of the poet,\\nEnriched with vocal and articulate powers.\\nNotes alone may tittilate the toes, and give the elas-\\ntic limbs their play but they never can draw tears to\\nmoisten the soldier s grave, transport us to Ceylon s\\nsunny isle, or subdue our passions to the gentle sooth-\\ningsof the watchman what of the night. Nor can I ad-\\nmire the practise of our churches.\\nThere let the pealing organ blow,\\nTo the full voiced choir below,\\nIn service higli, and anthems cleavj\\nAs may with sweetness through mine ear,\\nDissolve me into ecstasies.\\nAnd bring all heaven before mine eyes.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nInstead of which, without the book before us, we should\\nnot know that choir did any thing more than repeat, Fa,\\nsol, la nor am I an admirer of those sublime starts and\\nshouts which split the ears of the groundlings In all\\nof which the Philo-harmonists accuse me of want of taste\\nand science agreed though I might appeal to the stage,\\nwhere vocal music produces a profound silence in the au-\\ndience, while instrumental alone gives the signal for con-\\nversation and laughter. And were I called on to select\\nan example of devotional music, I should go to Brat-\\ntle Street Church, where a single female, Mrs, W. was\\nso powerful in musical expression, as to thrill every bo-\\nsom with devotional feelings or to the solo of the Meth-\\nodist M****, which discoursed most excellent music.\\nThose who observe the customs of the first settlers in a\\nnew country, will find an explanation of many things which\\nhave perplexed the antiquarians of Europe when attempt-\\ning to investigate the remains of antiquity. The expe-\\ndients to which men resort, either for comfort or security,\\nunder similar curcumstances partake of the same charac-\\nter. A moving tribe, like our Indians, bury a single\\ncorse in the earth but if the defuncts are numerous, as\\nafter a battle, they are piled on the surface, and a mound\\nor barrow raised over them. When a community is for-\\nmed in a new country, a burying place is designated near\\nto the centre of the population but if the people are\\nmuch scattered, and isolated, and remote, each family\\nburies its own members, within sight of the log-hut they\\ninhabit. In our route we noticed several of these graves,\\nand they are to be seen in all newly explored places re-\\nmote from old settlements. We should smile, if any an-\\ntiquary should gravely bring forward these monuments\\nas proofs of the population of this country previous to its\\noccupancy by our ancestors, yet it is not improbable that", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 107\\nthis will be done. Already a foreigner has written on\\nthe antiquity of the fortifications, which were erected at\\nOharlestown, and Roxbury, at the commencement of the\\nrevolution.\\nAs these lakes were stored with fish, their banks be-\\ncame the stations of Indians at certain seasons of the\\nyear and many rude stone-tombs have hence been col-\\nlected, and deposited in museums. Such are common\\nto all wandering tribes, and afford no indications of their\\nnational origin. The South American Indians have im-\\nages, resembling those which have been discovered in\\nAsia. The Indians of North America, have left no reli-\\ngious monuments.\\nAs soon as wandering tribes are reclaimed an^ become\\nstationary, policy, interest or fear, cherishes superstitious\\nrites and practices. Imagination is an original faculty\\njudgment an acquired habit. To bridle imagination is to\\ncurtail, and at the same time to regulate pleasure to in-\\ndulge it, engenders fear. The wise men of each com-\\nmunity soon learn from observation and experience, to\\nmanage the faculty, and harness it to the car of supersti-\\ntion. But it may be questionable whether the North\\nAmerican, ever had any images, or religious observances,\\nlike those of the tribes of South American Indians, ex-\\ncepting such as are common to all people.\\nIdolatry is natural to man; he must refer the striking\\nphenomena of nature, to invisible power and he will dep-\\nrecate the wrath, or admire the benevolence of that\\npower. Solomon has philosophically traced its origin\\nand progress in the 13th Chap, of the Book of Wisdom,\\n(a book by the way, rather fuller of inspiration than some\\ncanonized by the Church). Only a part of the subjects\\nwhich he names belong to all stages of society the rest\\nbelong to advanced and refined periods.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nThe North American Indians appear to have fewer su-\\nperstitious customs than the people of refined nations.\\nPeople must become stationary, perhaps idle and luxuri-\\nous, before they incline to indulge in trifling pleasures, or\\ndeprecate trifling inconveniences before they acquire a\\ntenuity of nerve to vibrate at every jar, and thrill at every\\nsound. Probably what we call superstition owed its ori-\\ngin to accident, to whim, or policy. The daily practice\\nof an individual becomes a habit makes an impression\\non the child, is imitated, and an oddity, a vt him, a punc-\\ntilio of pride, is continued, and reverenced with filial devo-\\ntion.\\nMany, if not most of the superstitious customs of\\nEuropeans, are derived from elder Eastern nations.\\nOur ancestors brought a {ew of these with them from\\nEngland. Few however remain with us at this day.\\nThey could not long exist among a people who professed,\\nthat old things were done away. Some of a purely\\ndomestic class remain, such as that of preceding the re-\\nmoval of a family into a new habitation, with salt, bread,\\na broom, and the Bible a custom, with the exception\\nof the Bible, as old as the Grecian Republic.\\nAntiquarians are very much engaged in tracing the\\norigin of nations through the medium of language. I\\nwonder whether peculiarities of phraseology mark the\\noriginal connexion of the people of many towns here,\\nwith the people of the English town or district whence\\nthey came? Though it is said that theris is more unifor-\\nmity in the spoken language of N. E. or of the U. S. than\\nthere is in that of England, yet there is a remarkable dif-\\nference between the vulgar phrases of different towns.\\nIpswich, for instance, it has been said, has always been\\ndistinguished for the purity of its diction, while Salem\\nand Marblehead have a singular set of cant and vulgar", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 109\\nphrase. The old school-master Burnham, used to attri-\\nbute this peculiarity to the early, and continued attention\\nof the Town to its Public Schools declaring that the\\noriginal settlers imbibed a taste for letters in the English\\ntown from which they emigrated, and where Cardinal\\nWoolsey established a celebrated school, the spirit of which\\nhad been retained and transmitted through every succes-\\nsive generation. If this be a just deduction, Let Ipswich\\nerect a monument to the great political Cardinal, who\\namid the splendour of royality, regarded the learning\\nwhich conducted him to power, as the only sure means\\nof elevating society to the comprehension of its duties,\\nthe capacity for freedom, and the enjoyment of good gov-\\nernment.\\nNew-Hampshire has some singular phrases. One of\\nwhich has acquired celebrity from its being used by\\nGen. Miller, who, being asked by the commander in\\nchief, whether he could take a certain fort, replied, I ll\\ntry. Singular customs of employments likewise discrim-\\ninate the people of different places. Stop a Vineyard sai-\\nlor, or a Boston lounger at your door, and inquire if the\\none wants a voyage, or the other a service if engaged,\\nthey will both give a short answer, and pass on if disen-\\ngaged, and a pen-knife is in the pocket haste to close\\nyour bargain, or your house will be cut down.\\nNotwithstanding we are daily reminded of the genera-\\ntions which have passed away, magnificent monuments\\nonly, furnish palpable evidence of the existence and des-\\ntruction of nations. These perpetuate the slavish and\\nambitious spirit of the age and while the individual is\\ndreaming of immortal remembrance, his mausoleum be-\\ncomes a chronological tablet. These tablets, however\\nbarren, yet connect the living with the dead. Of such\\nmonuments the Indians have left no remains. That\\n10", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nsomething of the kind would remain, there can be no\\ndoubt, had they not been driven by frequent wars from\\nthe stations where they made temporary encampments.\\nWhen they had tasted the fruits of the orchard, and sub-\\nstituted the scanty harvest in winter, for the still more\\nscanty and precarious provision of the chase when in-\\nstead of a few bushes, they had piled up a hovel of stones\\nto shelter their wives and children from the inclemency of\\nthe storm from the natural energy of the human mind,\\nrude, but ingenious contrivances would have added to\\ntheir comforts, and with these, an attachment to a per-\\nmanent residence would have constituted a liome and\\nhome, consecrated by feelings and associations which it\\nnever fails to cherish, would have advanced them as it\\ndid the Mexicans, to a state of social order.\\nAll the sketches I have seen, and all the descriptions I\\nhave read, gave me a very imperfect idea of the country.\\nLocal beauties may be shadowed out by the pencil, but\\nin general, pictures are as inadequate as is a piece of the\\ngiant s causeway to raise conceptions of the whole of that\\nmacrnificent battlement.\\nLittle can be expected from a short visit to know a\\ncountry well, we must live in it to describe it well re-\\nquires no ordinary talents. It requires skill in the use of\\ninstruments I do not mean instruments of surveying on-\\nly, though this is requisite but a quick and educated\\neye, a practised pencil, and the art of describing in words\\nwhat cannot be made visible by models. Remote coun-\\ntries can be visited by few and it is therefore desirable,\\nthat the descriptions should be such as cannot fail of con-\\nveying a true picture to the mind. The language of\\nscience is universal. When a botanist and mineralogist\\nspeaks of plants and minerals, the terms are appropriate,\\nand understood by men of all countries. So a traveller", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. Ill\\nmay give the height of a mountain the breadth of a\\nlake, but there are features, and not portraits he has\\nno special term which can give the reader an adequate\\nconception of that totality in the aspect which results\\nfrom the relative position, and harmonious combination of\\nnatural objects, each holding an important and appropriate\\nstation in the landscape, the omission of any one of which\\ndestroys the completeness or effect of the whole as a whole.\\nMost men admire a noble animal, but the jockey alone,\\nat one glance, discerns that proportion and perfectness of\\nthe parts from which result the symmetry and beauty of\\nthe whole combined so a drover decides instantaneous-\\nly on the character of an ox, and a sailor on the proper-\\nties of a ship. All admire a gem, a pebble, a rock and\\nother remarkable objects on the surface of the earth, but\\nnone but the painter, who sees every thing in connexion,\\nand who neglects not even the curl and color of the moss,\\ncan give each an appropriate place in the landcape.\\nLet Mr. A. give us the journal of a tour, and we shall\\nhave an almost tangible landscape, not of the pencil only,\\nbut of the pencil flowing with associations, and pointed\\nwith those colors of imagination which give life, indentity,\\ncondensation and compass to the whole, and to the parts\\nas they appear in nature and even when indistinct to\\nthe sensible, yet so admirably disposed as to bring a full\\npicture to the mind s eye.\\nPhysiognomy and Craniology are two uncertain sci-\\nences. Yet there are some remarkable cases in which\\nthey so far agree on indications of character, as to make\\nus think they have some foundation in nature. The indi-\\ncations are to us, however, imaginary, while to the teach-\\ner they are true signs So the poet and the painter,\\npresent us with descriptions of landscapes which we can-\\nnot realize, though to their full minds the images are", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\ndistinct. How is it that one man sees objects so different-\\nly from another How is it that a musician is in ecstasy\\nat a perform.ance, which affords others only a vague sen-\\nsation of pleasure How is it that every beauty of na-\\nture, and every exquisite quality of art, do not give the\\nlike pleasure to all Is there this immense difference be-\\ntween, a cultivated ear and eye, and the contrary I\\nbelieve there is, as there is between an intense obser-\\nver, and a casual looker on. Though endowed with the\\nlike natural capacity favoured by the like opportunity,\\none comes prepared, with a hahit of attention, the Qther\\nwith a habit of indifference one with his lamp trimmed\\nand burning, the other without a wick to his oil. In\\nshort, it is attentiori attention habitually in exercise, up-\\non all and every object which comes before him, which\\nchecks at every feather that comes before his eye. But\\nadmitting that we cannot arrive at this skill, or acquire\\nthis art, we may acquire such a knowledge of external\\nnature, as to enhance the pleasures that result from im-\\nitations and combinations of the pencil, in proportion\\nto our knowledge of the principles of the arts for the\\nprinciples are in nature, and may be learned by experience\\nand observation. For want of attention to these princi-\\nples, we have loose and vague descriptions both in words\\nand colors. A part is given for the whole and a whole,\\nindistinctly in a mist.\\nSome landscapes are hence dull and flat trunks glued\\nto the back ground, and branches and leaves matted as\\nthough they had been screwed in a hop-press. It is not\\nperhaps in the power of art to preserve the same distinct-\\nness that there is in nature where it exists in the midst\\nof variety. But must the painter, (as one said to me,)\\nalways throw out a tub to the whale, to draw the specta-\\ntor to some remarkable object, thrown in for the express", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 113\\npurpose of inviting attention This seems to argue a\\nwant of power, so to affect the imagination of the observer,\\nas to make him think he could walk under those branches\\nthat he could go to the termination of those woods, by\\nthe light which beams on the foot path that he could\\nput aside the living leaves which surround the core or the\\nfruit that he could hide behind the trunks of those\\nmassy oaks and yet this power is exhibited in paintings.\\nBut what have I to do with landscapes or paintings Be-\\nlieving as I do, that one of two circumstances is absolute-\\nly requisite to the beholder of a fine landscape painting,\\nto cause the piece to aiford him supreme delight, the one a\\ncomprehensive acquaintaace with that kind of country\\nwhich is delineated, the other, an intimate knowledge\\nof the particular scene which is the original of the pic-\\nture which serves as an index to revise the impression\\nwhich a view of the original made, and which, mingling\\nwith the sketches before him, transports him back to\\nthe very place where he received his earlier pleasurable\\nsensations.\\nBut you must come to this place more than once if you\\nexpect to have your mind filled with any thing more than\\nthe perception of a brilliant cloud come, if you want to\\nfeel the beauty and the variety of the scenery. Come,\\nas a resident, calm, observing, sedate: in company, and\\nalone minutely inspecting, to acquire a knowledge of\\nevery thing in detail and then by frequent, extensive,\\nand varied views under various aspects, the combined\\nsublimity and beauty of the whole. No country is well\\nknown till after a second visit. We return with minds\\nfurnished with new powers for observation. Fresh ob-\\njects start up, and new beauties disclose themselves.\\nWe go away it seems, only to sharpen our faculties, and\\n10*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nobtain a fresh relish for new objects of delight which be-\\ncome more permanent than the former.\\nWe form a landscape on the tablet of the mind for af-\\nter times and seasons. And it might be urged in favour of\\ngiving strong and deep attention to every scene in nature,\\nthat we thus lay up a treasure that shall be bright in\\nold age. This attention assists, and stocks the memory\\nwith objects ever various and pleasant and, since it is\\nan old remark, that age forgets the present, and remem-\\nbers the past, it is of infinite importance that we preoccu-\\npy every corner of memory with ideas of pleasurable sen-\\nsations. Let the present go, if the past is sufficient. When\\nthe vessel of memory is full, all the additions made, are\\non its surface, and may be allowed to flow over the brim.\\nI d have you better know this trade of ours. Tis a\\nprofession. Sirs, to ravish admiration. Its nursing father\\nis the Law.\\nTherefore we made a journey to the county-court,\\nwhich is a copy of every other court in the State. In the\\nmanagement of cases, the bar of all civilized countries\\nnearly agree. Not so in the pomp and circumstance of\\nCourts. Here they are less formal than Europe, or than\\nunder the Colonial Government. An admirable simplici-\\nty prevails in all that regards etiquette; the Americans\\nrequiring that the aspect of a court of Justice should be\\nas unimposing and simple, as its principles are pure and\\nindependent.\\nThe language and manners of the pleaders, in common\\ncases differ little from those of ordinary life among men\\nof business.\\nIt is recorded by^ an ancient Historian, that Pericles\\nalways practised before a mirror, that he might see what\\neffect the utterance of each letter had upon his mouth.\\nWere modern orators to attempt thus to operate upon the", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 115\\nsenses, they would be ridiculed for their affectation. And\\nin fact, such is the critical discernment of the aore, that\\na man must be careful to avoid leaving his track in the\\nsnow of his predecessors, and even to shun a studied form,\\nwhich indicates a mannerist.\\nThose who have studied the artificialness of oratory,\\nlay much stress on externals. Those who have been con-\\nversant with the great models of ancient and modern elo-\\nquence, and from the diligent perusal of their works,\\nhave imbibed the spirit of their originals, expect to find\\namong the great men of this improved age, the most per-\\nfect examples of all that has been attributed either of ac-\\ntion, knowledge of the heart and passions, dignity of sen-\\ntiment, pathos, grace, and sublimity of language, to the\\nsplendid names which illuminate the otherwise dark an-\\nnals of the world.\\nThose, said Valerius, who, like myself, come\\nstrangers to the scene of Oratorial triumph, cannot fail to\\nbow down and submit themselves, in awful homage, be-\\nneath its sway. When I heard the clear and harmonious\\nperiods of my kinsman, following each other in their un-\\ndoubting sweep of energy when I observed with what\\napparent skill he laid his foundations in a kw simple facts\\nand propositions, and then, with what admirable art, he\\nupreared from these, a superstructure of conclusions,\\nequally easy and unexpected equally beautiful and in-\\ngenious when, above all, he had conducted us to the\\nend of his argument, and closed the whole magnificent\\nstrain with one burst of passionate eloquence, in which he\\nseemed to leave even himself behind him, 1 could not\\nbut feel within myself as if I had been till now a stranorer.\\nnot only to the most splendid, but to the most awful of\\nenchantments as if I had now, for the first time, con-\\ntemplated the practised strength of reason, and the em-\\nbodied might of the soul.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nSuch perhaps may be the expectation of some who\\ncome fresh from the halls of the University. How great\\nmust be their disappointment on hearing the most celebra-\\nted men of our day\\nAlexander Hamilton, as a Statesman and as a pleader\\nat the bar, was allowed to be one of the most powerful the\\ncountry ever produced. A student of one of our colleges\\nobtained leave of absence, for the purpose of attending\\ncourt where Hamilton was to plead, in a cause that was\\nsupposed to require the full exertion of his strong mind,\\nand the display of his great talents. He accordingly en-\\ntered the court, but not till the closing counsel had risen\\nto speak. After listening four hours, the case was given\\nto the jury, to his great disappointment, as he supposed he\\nhad arrived too late to hear the great Orator. On return-\\ning home, he was met by a number of his fellow students\\nall eager to hear his recital of what he had witnessed.\\nHe informed them of his disappointment, as he had the\\nopportunity only of hearing a little man who began to talk\\njust as he entered,, and continued till the cause was\\nfinished and he thought that he himself could talk full as\\nwell and this little man was Alexander Hamilton.\\nWhen we arrived at the Court, the great M was\\npleading or rather drawling over a little cause. Here we\\nhad an evidence that the greatest, are the simplest minds.\\nA great mind, like a great planet, performs its evolutions\\nwith silent regularity a little mind like an eccentric rock-\\net, which whizzes along and agitates the atmosphere.\\nBuonaparte arranged the little figures of the toy-shop,\\ndressed in the costume of the several dignitaries who\\nwere to perform at the coronation, and at the wedding of\\nhis Austrian dueen, with as much ease and interest as he\\nshowed in arranging a campaign, and both were done\\nwithout yMS5, and M was as much at Aomc, as when", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 117\\nhe was discussing, with the knowledge of Marshall, the\\nlogic of Ellsworth, the wit of Burges, and the moral digni-\\nty of Ames, the interest and policy of nations in the Sen-\\nate of the United States, to the great discomfiture of Sen-\\nator B who said, he cared not a fig for any op-\\nponent, provided it were that knock-me-down gentleman\\nfrom Ncto Hampshire^\\nOn our passage from the lead mines of Eaton, which\\nGeneral L had invited us to visit, we were stopped\\nin a narrow part of the road by four waggons, one of\\nwhich, in descending a rugged declivity of a spur of the\\nOssipee, was upset, and the whole cargo, consisting of\\nwomen, children, and household stuff, was thrown out\\nand lay spread on the ground.\\nOur assistance was required, and more gladly accepted\\nas the day was far spent, and indications of foul weather\\nappeared in the sky. Besides, they were fearful of not\\narriving at any place of shelter preparations for lodging\\nin the waggons having been deferred until they had\\npassed into the woods, where no tavern was yet to be\\nfound.\\nTheir equipage consisted of four waggons covered with\\nsail-cloth, and drawn by two horses each. Two of those\\ncontained the luggage and two were appropriated sepa-\\nrately^ to the accommodation of the men, and the women\\nand children.\\nTt appeared, that they were migrating to Indiana,\\nwhere land had been purchased, and several log-huts\\nerected by the young men, and were in readiness to re-\\nceive their families. Three of these young men, had re-\\nturned from Indiana for the purpose of conducting the re-\\nmoval of the four elderly men and women three youn-\\nger women and six children.\\nAfter helping them to refit, we left them to pursue their", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\ntedious journey with which, however, the old men and\\nwomen seemed not to be perfectly reconciled but the\\nyoung men and women were in fine spirits full of ani-\\nmation, and not doubting of a prosperous termination of\\ntheir labors.\\nSuch emigrations have lessened within a few years, and\\nperhaps it is well for N. E. that they have for had they\\ncontinued, such as they were, during what were called in\\nMaine, The years of famine, that is, between 1810\\nand 1816, they would have drained the country of much\\nof its youthful strength. Such was the emigration at that\\nperiod, that four thousand y\u00c2\u00abw//zes were said in the jour-\\nnals, to have passed one of the bridges in the western\\npart of New York, in one season. We presume, how-\\never, this to be incorrect, and that four-thousand persons,\\nwas meant.\\nAs a group of those emigrants passed through the main\\nstreets of Boston, it excited much attention and a sketch\\nof the caravan appeared in the following Elegy.\\nTHE FLIGHT.\\nAN ELEGY.\\nWhither travel you, ye men of robust frames and sun-\\nburnt complexions Why do the beautiful countenances\\nof the young women droop Why groaneth the matron\\nin spirit? Why rest the old men on their staves, casting\\ntheir eyes reproachfully around, as though they had been\\nstripped of their well earned possessions by the ingrati-\\ntude of man, and were now out-casts of society, or as\\nthose who go into banishment Why is the waggon the\\nhabitation of thy children, whence, from amid beds and\\nutensils of a household, they look out and lift up their\\nhands, and shout, and point the finger, and cry to each", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 119\\nOther, as their imaginations are struck with the wonders\\nof the City?\\nAre the waters of Kennebeck and Penobscot bitter\\nAre the streams that nourished the meadows of Andros-\\ncoggin dry 1 Have the fires failed for want of fuel Has\\nthe sea yielded no salt? Have the rivers withholden their\\nsalmon their shad, their bass, and their alewives? Have the\\nkine and the sheep ceased to bring forth their young Have\\nthe pans of the dairy been empty? Will the churn pro-\\nduce no butter? nor the cheese-press stream with rich\\nwhey\\nAnd the young men answered and said The waters of\\nKennebeck and Penobscot are not bitter, but frozen and\\nthe streams that coursed down the mountains and the\\nhills, are not dry, but rare and scanty. The land is still\\ncovered with forest, but the wood thereof will not cause\\ngrass to grow nay, the peat of a whole forest would be\\nno substitute for summer neither has the salt, nor the\\nfish failed but the kine and the sheep die for want of the\\nwinter fodder, and no milk can be spared from the lank ud-\\nder to fill the churn or cheese-press. Moreover, the corn\\nyieldeth not its increase, for the kernel thereof is with-\\nered in the milk.\\nNow, considering that for seven years, yea, ever since\\nthe total eclipse, the summers have been chilly, and the\\nwinters long and dreary, we said one to another Let us\\nabandon our possessions, which aflford no adequate return\\nfor our labor, and let us remove to the south or to the\\nwest, where the land is more fertile, and the seasons more\\ngenial.\\nSo we harnessed our cattle and put covering over our\\nwaggons, and took what was needful for a long journey,\\nand prepared seats of straw and moss for our old people,\\nand our wives, and our children, knowing that we must\\noften encamp in the wilderness.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nBut our fathers and our mothers refused to depart, and\\nsaid Here did we begin our lives, and here we will\\nend them. Did not our fathers and our mothers, in the\\nprime of life, leave Massachusetts, and couie into these\\nforests, where no tree was felled, and no church was\\nbuilt, and no roads were formed And did they not la-\\nbor and toil, to clear away the forests, and to fence in\\nfields, and to provide corn for men and cattle And did\\nthey not lodge in log huts, without windows and chim-\\nnies for many years 1 And were not these the places of our\\nbirth 1 And until we, their children, had become able to\\ntend the cattle, and to hoe, and to reap, and to cut wood,\\nwere they not content and happy\\nAnd when they had erected framed houses, with chim-\\nnies, and with the fruits of the land had bought glass for\\nwindows, and made parlours, and kitchens, and chambers\\nand cellars, and dairy-rooms, had they not stores of pro-\\nvisions, and apples and cider, and every thing convenient\\nfor long winters.\\nAnd did they not erect churches and school houses?\\nAnd have not we enjoyed the benefit of their labor, and\\ntransferred to you, our children, all those blessings, con-\\ntinually adding that of our own labor and care, together\\nwith better instruction than our fathers, by reason of in-\\ncessant toil, could afford to us 1\\nAnd would you now remove us into a far country,\\nwhere all this labor must be repeated, and all those priva-\\ntions be endured\\nYe are young and sturdy, and with all the buoyancy of\\nyouth delight in change and new scenes. Your affections\\nare not linked to the tombs you have no sighs to mingle\\nwith the flowers that grow over departed joys! you saw\\nnot the apple tree when it first burst through the soil\\nneither did you watch and nurse it into bloom nor did", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 121\\nyou feel the rapture which its first mature fruit imparted.\\nWill you now unearth the bones of our parents and of\\nour children, and of our friends We will be laid with\\nthem in this place Children, children, we cannot de-\\npart\\nAnd we saw that their grief was great, and our young\\nwomen were overcome with affection. But having taken\\nour resolution with judgment, we determined to persist.\\nAnd when they saw our waggons harnessed and our\\ngoods laden in the anguish of their souls they said\\nWe will go with you\\nThe whole population of New England seems to be,\\nwithout intermission, engaged by specific subjects Pol-\\nitics Revivals Education. Politics and education are\\nuniversal, and permanent Revivals, local and tempo-\\nrary.\\nNo great political subject being in agitation during\\nour journeyings, education was the general topic. No\\nvillage, however small, is destitute of an elementary\\nschool and in the larger towns we found from 5 to 10.\\nIn addition to these primary schools, in which reading,\\nwriting and arithmetic are freely taught to all, at the pub-\\nlic expense, higher seminaries, supported by private sub-\\nscriptions, are numerous.\\nThe public, however, provides only the school house,\\nand for the pay of the teacher and a far greater burden\\nfalls on the people than that of the cost of these two\\nitems, viz. that of books. It would be impolitic to exon-\\nerate the poor wholly from some personal recognition of\\nhis obligation to educate his children but it is the duty\\nof society to lighten every expense which this obligation\\nimposes. From various causes, school books are expen-\\n11", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nsire, and from frequent changes, the expense is much in-\\ncreased. To the ricli tliis is of small account, but when\\nit is considered that the majority are poor, the rejection\\nof an old book, and the substitution of a new one not es-\\nsentially varying in its elements, is a heavy burden. It\\nis to be wished therefore, that following the example of\\nthe Bible Society, the State would furnish to towns, the\\nnecessary books for the public free schools which they\\nestablish by law, at the simple cost of the materials and\\nthe labor. This would bring the price within the ability\\nof the poorest the state would be refunded by the towns\\nand one half of the expense be saved to the poor.\\nIt is a fact that in Boston, where the greatest attention\\nis given to education, and where great pride is taken in\\ntheir schools, that many are kept at home, and many in\\nthe schools meet with discouragement, and are kept from\\nadvancement equal to their talents, by the want of books\\nand the same occurs in the country.\\nWe had now wandered beyond the Merrimack, and\\npart of the company that had assembled at Winnipiseogee,\\npassed to the Connecticut part had taken a south-west\\ncourse, determined to gratify a romantic wish to stand\\nupon the highland, from the summit of which the waters\\ndescend in contrary directions, to the two great rivers.\\nBeing indisposed, I remained alone for three days. These\\nmight have been tedious, had I not in a truly yankee\\nstyle determined otherwise. On the second day I walk-\\ned abroad, trusting that chance would bring me in con-\\ntact with some person or thing with whom, or which,\\nI might associate. Man is not necessarily solitary, be-\\ncause he is not with animals that use words. Whether\\nhis mood be grave or gay, he may always find beings of\\nthe same temperament. The ox with a senatorial coun-\\ntenance, patient, contemplative, tractable the colt that", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 123\\nlike a sprightly damsel coquettishly dances around you,\\nbut spurns your near approach the sheep and Iambs\\nthat timidly fly to shelter; the squirrel chattering and\\nleaping from tree to tree and bidding you defiance the\\nsteed that leaves his pasture and gallantly prances to-\\nwards you, tosses up his head, and snorting seems to de-\\nmand your business all these court your company and\\nthen again, the instincts by which they are impelled the\\nvariety of their motions, and the beauty of forms and\\nattitudes and postures and your conjectures respecting\\ntheir intellectual powers all engage your attention, as\\ndid the oyster that of Dr. Paley who found it not difficult,\\nhe says, to find out amusement for all animals but oys-\\nters, periwinkles, and the like.\\nObserving on a sign board the name of the county At-\\ntorney, and knowing that a person holding such a com-\\nmission must possess great merit, I entered the office\\nand introduced myself to the gentleman. Soon after anoth-\\ner gentleman came in, and a very general conversation\\nwas begun and continued for nearly three hours. These\\nwere both men of extensive information nearly about\\nthe same age were married and had families of children.\\nThey spoke with great respect of their clergyman, to\\nwhom they were strongly attached. This person, they\\ninformed me, was originally a very popular minister in a\\nlarge town of Massachusetts But he had run out\\nwith his parishioners that is, the novelty had worn off.\\nThe most zealous suspected his orthodoxy because he\\ndiscountenanced the getting up, as the technical phrase\\nis, revivals, and was moreover suspected of inclining to\\nArminianism and the indifferent and the liberal were too\\ninert to give him support and encouragement. Thus he\\nfelt himself neglected, and probably for that reason was\\ntoo much depressed to put in requisition his very superior", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\ntalents. Finally he was dismissed, and came into these\\nparts; and he is to us, an acquisition of inestimable\\nvalue.\\nDr. Paley found the place he removed to, I think it\\nwas Carlisle, continued the Attorney, extremely illit-\\nerate and unpolished. He soon brought it into a state of\\ncomparative refinement. Our minister has likewise\\nbeen the means of -improving the society of this village\\nand its vicinity. If classical scholars are considered\\nrequisite to instruct the youth, liberal scholars are as\\nrequisite to enable men of business, (whose time is prin-\\ncipally appropriated to their respective callings), to keep\\npace with the advancement of improvement in society.\\nThe Baptist clergyman of this place, though zealous\\nfor his sect, and a little disposed to dogmatize, had a\\ngreat knowledge of mankind, and united much philoso-\\nphy with his theology. A liberal clergy, however they\\ndiffer in doctrine, always agree respecting the influence\\nof letters in elevating the moral character of the world\\nbut it may be doubted whether they always take the\\nmost judicious course to extend this influence. Tis with\\nthe clergyman, as with the physician Confidence must\\nbe almost absolute. The people must be satisfied that\\nhe is learned in his profession able to give a reason for\\nhis doctrine sedulous in the investigation of truth; he\\nmust not merely give the result of his studies, but he\\nmust have the tact of perspicuously stating the steps of\\nthe process by which he arrived at his conclusions. With\\nless than this, men of common sense will not be satisfi-\\ned. They will not be put off* with dicta and he knows\\nlittle of the world, who imagines, because his hearers\\nare not learned, they therefore cannot reason, or follow a\\nprocess of reasoning. Were this the case. Juries would\\nbe absurd. They do reason about all the aff airs of life", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 125\\nwith as much connexion and precision, as the logician\\nwith his sylogisms. And I am inclined to think that the\\nargumentative and explanatory style of the last age, made\\na deeper and more lasting impression on men s minds,\\nthan the declamatory, sententious, desultory, and dicta-\\ntorial of the present. Now much is loose and disjointed\\nthen every thing was consecutive, pointed, conclusive.\\nMen went away with something to think of they now\\ndepart with a pleasantness of feeling a disposition to ad-\\nmire the ingenuity and fineness of the remarks. This\\nkind of patch-work, amuses rather more than it instructs,\\nor raises a devotional glow. It may do for the old, who\\nwant a rocking chair; but it does not mark out the coun-\\ntry over which the young are to course in the race of life.\\nYou may think I speak like a lawyer well, be it so I\\nconsider every audience to require evidence as well as\\nreasoning and it is a contradiction in terms to grant\\nto the common mass of men, from which our juries are\\ncomposed, capacity to weigh the arguments of opposing\\ncounsellors, and of deciding on the most difficult cases of\\ncivil and criminal jurisprudence, and doubt of their ca-\\npacity to decide correctly of the evidences of Christianity,\\nand of the justness of all moral and religious deductions.\\nIf therefore a minister, instead of trying to raise his peo-\\nple to his own ideas of excellence or improvement,\\nlowers his discourse to what he conceives to be the low\\nstate of their understandings he certainly does not ad-\\nvance his audience. This is as great a mistake as that\\nof assuming an artinciul and lofty tone, so opposite to\\nthat simple, convincing and penetrating eloquence which\\nperforating the understanding, opens the well-springs of\\nthe heart and affections.\\nBesides, most men of the world have some taste by\\nwhich they judge of what is trite and common place and\\n11*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "126 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\ntruth, good and solemn truth, incessantly iterated in trite\\nand common-place form and language become the Sun-\\nday lullaby to the fatigued hearer. Yet it is not merely\\nthe dry, didactic discourse which uninterests the most\\npassionate declamation, and the most copious display of\\nfigures, however appropriate and elegant; though they\\nmay charm the fancy of the poetic hearer, fall coldly up-\\non a common audience. If engaged at all, they are en-\\ngaged on the most solemn and important truths, and every\\nthing that has a tendency to divert attention, from the\\nstraight forward course of argument, whether in attempts\\nto rouse the passions or to delight the fancy, interrupts\\nthe progress of thought, by which a determinate end is ef-\\nfected.\\nIt is vain to deny that there is a great deal of elo-\\nquence, in manner, or to pretend that truth, naked, una-\\ndorned truth, is sufficient of itself to arrest attention what\\nis rhetoric, but the knowledge of the means by which,\\nthrough the medium of language, the minds of men are\\nto be affected and here address is all important. He\\nwho would bring down his game, must select one object\\nin the quarry. The public speaker whose manner is dif-\\nfusive who speaks to his audience, addressing now the\\nright, now the left, always dissipates attention, while he\\nwho seems to address a single man, kindles by the spark\\nhe has thrown on the other, and acquires animation and\\nearnestness from noticing its effect, and thus bends the\\nwhole force of his excited mind to give energy to his ar-\\nguments, while all the attentive audience are insensibly\\nattracted and feel a sensation corresponding with the per-\\nson addressed. An effective public speaker, may be li-\\nkened to a magnet dropped amid the rubbish of a gold-\\nsmith s bench, mixed with inert steel filings, yet these\\npossessing a quality of attractability, immediately arrange\\nthemselves around and point to the central object.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 127\\nMen will not be scolded into belief. They will not\\nfully admit of doctrines which are discordant with their\\nconceptions of what nature instructs them to be, the\\nbenevolence of God.\\nAnother circumstance has impaired the influence of the\\nclergy. Presidents, Governors, Judges, and ministers,\\nshould never be partizans. Too many ministers have\\nmeddled, not so much with general and everlasting prin-\\nciple, as with local and temporary dogmas of factions.\\nHence they separated, as all partizans must, from their\\nopponents. Their influence in society was consequently\\ndiminished. In sects, whether political or religious,\\nunion of individuals constitute party. Party must act, as\\nsuch religion becomes implicated, and enlisted, and\\nboth must unite. Hence combination to obtain power in\\norder to enforce what they conceive to be right till final-\\nly, actual hostility ensues, not with swords, but on the\\nsame principles, and with the same interest, as originated\\nall the wars of persecution which have been unjustly at-\\ntributed, by sceptics, to religion itself. The shrewd poli-\\ntician, in the mean time, sees in this organization of the\\nclergy, an essential part of the machine, with which they\\nproposed to operate on political society. Hot headed\\nzealots were encouraged to thunder from their pulpits\\ntill being no longer wanted, they were neglected, and the\\nmost outrageous fell into contempt a warning to their\\nsuccessors never to lend their talents to the cause of any\\npolitical party, however deeply they may be convinced of\\nits rectitude.\\nWe in this place, disposed to strengthen the hand\\nand encourage the heart, as the proper way of calling tal-\\nents into action, determined to have no preacher who was\\nnot only independent of politics and party, but would ad-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "128 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nhere strictly to the ancient Congregational independence\\ndevoted exclusively to the religious and moral instruction\\nof the people, secured to ourselves the talents of a man,\\nwhich old Massachusetts rejected, but who is every way\\ncapable, and earnest to promote improvement.\\nThe qualities we sought for we knew would make a\\nminister popular and a union with the Baptist minister\\nrespecting means of improvement, would produce harmo-\\nny, among the people. Both being ambitious to promote\\ngeneral intellectual improvement, the state of society we\\nthink has been essentially benefited our society has be-\\ncome intelligent, and liberal and our schools have been\\nvery much advanced but you will visit our schools,\\nand judge for yourself Assenting, the gentleman con-\\nducted me first to a primary school then to the town\\nschool, and next to the academy.\\nIn the primary school was there not too much re-\\nstraint Is not the practice of some of the Boston schools\\nbetter In these, exercise and cheerfulness are studied,\\nas less counteracting the indications of nature. It is at\\na more advanced age that children become frivolous, but\\neven then the frivolity of grown persons far exceeds that\\nof youth. The careless play of instinct is superseded by\\nvanity under the garb of reason. Children, on the con-\\ntrary, are ardent in the pursuit of knowledge, and delight\\nin the vagaries of young imagination. If you supply them\\nwith toys, these are soon disjointed in order to discover\\nthe interior contrivance. A watch gives them no note\\nof time, but it must be broken open to observe its won-\\nderful machinery. This done, ihey fly to something else.\\nNothing suits them long. Yet if these toys are not sup-\\nplied, they invent amusements for themselves. They set\\nup a row of bricks, and touching the last in the series,\\nwatch the impetus given in succession till the whole lie", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 129\\nprostrate. The enterprise is accomplished, and the shout\\nof pleasure is as hearty as that of the successful engineer\\nwho springs his destructive mine, and prostrates the walls\\nof a fortress. They dig in the sand hills, and make\\novens they build houses with sticks and bushes they\\ninvite company, arrange the guests, furnish the viands,\\nand go through all the ceremonies of the tea-table they\\nimitate military manouvres, and read and preach without\\nknowing a letter. Their inventive and imitative faculties\\nare always at work. It is at this age peculiarly danger-\\nous to have any thing equivocal in action, look, or word,\\nfor deception in action, word or look, offers a precedent\\nthat is never obliterated. They seek truth in things\\nthey ask the solution of questions and a deviation from\\ntruth will be detected, for they remember a former con-\\nstruction, and apply it to another subject: confidence is\\nlost by the slightest prevarication doubt is substituted\\nfor innocent frankness thoughts are concealed, and the\\nfoundation of a bad character is laid. The vices of pa-\\nrents are not unfrequently alleged as mitigating or ex-\\ncusing the faults of children. Quakers, said the gen-\\ntleman, attend more to the cultivation of the mind than\\nof the body. I do not mean by the study of books, but\\nby example and conversation. Children in cities are\\nlikewise instructed in the same manner, but not in the\\nsame kind. What is held as supremely excellent, makes\\ndeep impressions. And what can appear to children more\\nsupremely excellent than what are the subjects of daily\\nconversation And what subjects are so predominant as\\nparties dress fashions courtship marriages,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 novels,\\nLC. LC. Mothers, sisters, and visitors all unite in discus-\\nsing these subjects. Hence the young mind is taught to\\nconsider them as all important. Hence they grow up in\\na hot-bed of frivolity and when they become parents,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nthey must continue in the same course from habit. The\\nconversation in Quaker families, on the contrary, is nev-\\ner thus wasteful, but is always about things in them-\\nselves useful and improving and the cjiildren of Qua-\\nkers hear nothing about such things, till .their judgment\\nis so matured, as to reject them as beneath the dignity of\\na rational being.\\nThe tovvn schools are generally conducted by compe-\\ntent teachers. Too much however is expected, and too\\nlittle done. Too much is expected by parents, and too\\nmuch attempted by systems and too little is done\\nthrough oral instruction to awaken thought, and excite\\ningenuity. A scholar has nothing to do, but to get by\\nrote, or copy by rule, a lesson that requires only reten-\\ntion. There is as much difference in these methods, as\\nthere is between plenitude and poverty in the acquisition\\nof the arts of life; between a person who has to forage\\nfor himself, and one that has the means by which every\\nwish is anticipated. The one is ingenious, contriving,\\nimproving on every suggestion, and learns to reason\\nthrough necessity. The other is dependent, limited in\\nresources, and can seldom substitute any thing for the gol-\\nden lever with which he has been accustomed to lift every\\nburden. In short, the person of limited means, acquires\\ninfinitely more power over the affairs of life, than the one\\nwho is furnished with every thing spontaneously. Ne-\\ncessity is truly the mother of invention and invention\\nis the most improving exercise of the mind. Curiosity,\\non the contrary, attains its end and ceases. Curiosity is\\nterminable Invention, progressive. The thousand con-\\ntrivances of others to gratify curiosity, are far less stimu-\\nlating than a single invention by which we are made sen-\\nsible of our own power. Success in producing something\\ningenious or useful, encourages us more to continue our", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 131\\nefforts, than a whole museum of articles already furnish-\\ned by others, and of which we have only the inspection\\nand the handling.\\nMothers very judiciously teach their girls to fabricate\\nand arrange the dresses of the dolls, for the purpose of\\ninstructing them in the use of the needle. If they were\\noccasionally to extend their employment to objects by\\nwhich they would become sensible of their power to com-\\nmunicate good to others if they would bestow the same\\ncost on materials to clothe some destitute object, and al-\\nlow the child to feel the gratification of assisting by actu-\\nally providing for and patronizing such a one, what a new\\nand powerful motive would be given for their industry, and\\nhow impressive would be the lessons on their own hearts,\\nwhich such acts would furnish 1 How would it secure\\nthem from an exclusive regard to self? Without expos-\\ning them to the contamination of vulgarity, they might\\nvisit Glenburney without learning its language. By let-\\nting them see that people could live contentedly and hap-\\npily without any of the luxuries or conveniences, to which\\nthey themselves were accustomed and deemed necessary,\\nwould it not check the growth of that arrogance, fastidi-\\nousness, and pride, and frivolousness which so early bud\\nin the sunny apartments of the wealthy and elegant fam-\\nilies of cities? Those among the rich and educated,\\nwho at a more advanced period of life, have entered into\\nthesocial connexions of charitable societies, have hence de-\\nrived some of their sweetest pleasures and some have re-\\ngretted that this source of knowledge, as well as of be-\\nnevolence, was not disclosed to them while they were, as\\nMiss C**** called it idling away the morning in orna-\\nmenting a Dutch image or as Miss P**** said, while\\nshe was devourins: a carl load of romances.\\nWe next visited the academy. The boys and girls as-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nsemble in diiTerent apartments, under the superintend-\\nance of preceptors of their own sex. Some of the boys\\nwere fitting for College, but most of them for the active\\nbusiness of life. As this was a higher establishment, de-\\nsigned to complete the education which had been carried\\nto a certain extent in the town schools, it was expected that\\nevery one should be well acquainted with all the elemen-\\ntary branches taught in those primary schools; such as\\nwriting, arithmetic, reading and grammar, and immedi-\\nately commence the study of higher branches.\\nThis however was not the case. Notwithstanding that\\nduring the daily studies in these higher branches, all his\\nprevious acquirements must necessarily be brought into\\npractice, the boy was still condemned to pore over the\\npages of Murray the greater part of the day, and even to\\ncontinue the same process while he remained in the acad-\\nemy.\\nThe inability of nine tenths of the pupils when they\\nleave the schools to apply a rule or parse a sentence in\\nwhich they have not been drilled, seems to show some de-\\nfect in the system of instruction. That a habit of atten-\\ntion and of accuracy is acquired by this process may be\\ndoubted. Young people in former times were shut up\\nthe greater part of the sabbath day, and compelled to\\nstudy, religion as it was called, in Henry s five folio vol-\\numes of commentaries on the bible, Burkit on the New\\nTestament, Flavel s Navigation spiritualized, Ames Med-\\nula, or some such abstruse works, and the effect was, a\\ndisgust, and almost abhorrence of every religious work\\nand so it is with grammar and all the books of lessons\\nwhich youth are compelled to study and re-study during\\nfour or five tedious years. Even new books of the same\\nclass, serve not the purpose of varying the study, and of\\nexciting the curiosity for what curiosity can be excit-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 133\\ned by presenting the same subject in the new style of\\nanother compiler The millenary is different, but the\\nbody is the same. The imagination of youth is lively\\nand excursive, and no lessons can have such attractions\\nfor young minds as not to weary by daily repetition.\\nThis routine furnishes neither subjects of comparison, by\\nwhich judgment is formed nor variety by which imagi-\\nnation is enlarged nor views of actions and situations by\\nwhich the heart is affected nor topics by which conver-\\nsation is supplied.\\nBut youth, say the Preceptors, must not be indulg-\\ned in desultory studies. No. You must tread the mill,\\nin order to run the race. Young minds would be dis-\\ntracted with variety, and would not know where to fix.\\nWould they would they not read with avidity and im-\\nprovement, books which are full of action; and which\\nopen to their view the realities of life? If they can be\\nmade to understand grammar, as you admit they can, by\\nthe labor you compel them to bestow on it, they can un-\\nderstand history, narratives of voyages, travels, and such\\nbooks as give a real knowledge of tangible objects. If\\nyou would give them abstract, or moral notions, why not\\ngive them pegs to hang they ideas on, and rounds on which\\nthey can climb? What signifies it, to order a boy as you\\ndo to compose a theme on the immortality of^the soul on\\npolitical economy on virtue who is not furnished with\\nexamples to which his ideas will attach Ask the masters\\nthemselves, whether the philosophy of grammar was not\\nwith them a matter of late acquisition? Whether they\\never thought the niceties of grammar to be of much mo-\\nment till they determined to become instructors either by\\nspeech or writing? and whether all that was necessary,\\nwas not understandingly obtained with little attention,\\n12", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "134 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nafter their minds were matured by the knowledge of\\nthings\\nSo, with regard to reading, that neglected, yet greatest\\nand best of all accomplishments, what gives facility but\\nextensive practice How is the ear tuned, and the per-\\nception quickened, without hearing others or the capac-\\nity of the voice ascertained, or cultivated, and modulated\\nwithout hearing himself? How is the extension, the\\nforce, the strength, the sweetness of a language distin-\\nguished but by an intimacy with the various styles in\\nwhich different subjects are treated This general and\\ndiifusive reading teaches grammar through practice. We\\nreverse the order of nature, and get the language by gram-\\nmar, instead of grammar by language. Scholars used to\\nsystem, deem that method infallible by which they were\\ntaught. The sun moves, and the earth stands still,\\nPtolemy taught and Galileo was an innovator, say the\\ncardinals still. But a youth cannot enter College unless\\nhe can pass a critical examination. Be it so. A con-\\nformity to the rules of a public establishment is proper\\nfor every one who voluntarily selects a profession. A man\\nthat proposes to exhibit before the public, must move\\ncorrectly in the prescribed figure but very few are of this\\nclass.\\nAs reading, various and extensive reading, shows the\\ncopiousness, the precision, and the perspicuity, of the lan-\\nguage, so it generates ideas, opens the mind, disciplines\\nthe understanding and judgment, and teaches more of\\ncorrectness and discrimination in the use of language\\nthan the exclusive study of grammar possibly can.\\nBut in almost all schools, the great object seems to be\\nto make the scholars tliorougli^ as the saying is, in the\\nrules and this thoroughness, passes too often, with the\\nvisiting committee, for proficiency. Exhibition day comes,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISSEOGEE. 135\\nand applause follows. In all this there may be some\\nquackery. He who can show a painted map, and tell\\nwhere the prominent features and capes are, is complete\\nin Geography but it is a chance if he can tell the course\\na ship sails from Boston to London, or knows so much of\\nthe topography of his own state, as to line out the road to\\nany of the great towns, rivers and mountains whose\\nnames are familiar. Notwithstanding this, we get on\\nwonderfully well, and beat all the world! But might we\\nnot get on better Instead of studies being monotonous\\nand repulsive, might they not be rendered pleasant, and\\nfull of hope and encouragement\\nSix scholars of the^rs^ class of a public school I once\\nvisited, performed several exercises, both of mental arith-\\nmetic according to Colburn, and of the manual, by the\\npencil and slate. These being finished, the preceptor,\\nwith an affectation of indifference, and a seeming con-\\nfidence that his visitors would be astonished at the rapid-\\nity of the calculation, and the correctness of the result,\\nstated a question, which appeared to all of us so compli-\\ncated as to require considerable time, and many lines of\\nfigures to solve but, to our surprise, scarcely was it sta-\\nted, before every boy held up his slate as a sign that it\\nwas done. The committee could not but admire the\\nreadiness which so well displayed the attainments of the\\nyouth in this most useful branch of study and agreed\\nthat the preceptor must possess uncommon powers for\\nteaching. One of the committee thought so rare an oc-\\ncurrence should be made public, as an excitement to oth-\\ner instructors; and accordingly honorable mention was\\nmade of it in the next Gazette.\\nOn mentioning this to a mathematician, he smiled, and\\nopening a book, showed me the same sum done in a\\nshort way, observing that there were several hundreds of", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136 EXCUUSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nthe like kind at the end of many books of arithmetic not\\nused, or admitted by any teacher as practical examples\\nbut allowed to be used as recreating questions.\\nIn the school we now were visiting, a class was next\\narranged to be examined in rhetoric. This is considered\\nas a finishing branch including reading, grammar, style\\nLC. An abridgment of Blair was the only book studied.\\nLet a nation begin to think, even about algebra, said D\\nAlembert, and it will soon think correctly on other sub-\\njects. So let a youth think on the art, and the principles\\nof rhetoric, and every branch of literature will more stu-\\ndiously engage his attention. The scholars however had\\nnot yet learned to exercise any powers of their own, be-\\nyond that of memory. They could recite correctly the\\nrules and observations of Blair, but did not extend them\\nfarther. They could call over the names of the great au-\\nthors, with as much facility as the students in geography\\ncould name places.\\nThe elements of experimental philosophy are likewise\\nhere taught. One of the committee informed me that\\nan apparatus was soon to be added. I was sorry to hear\\nthat, unless it were to be of the most simple, cheap, and\\nplain construction being of opinion, that most young\\nminds attach all the science exclusively to the instrument.\\nThe late Mr. Cummings, one of the most successful In-\\nstructors I ever knew, used to say, that it ivas in the\\npower of a competent instructor to make the necessary in-\\nstruments of demonstration grow out of the mind of the\\npupil. Egg shells of different sizes, hoops, and wires,\\nconstituted his apparatus.\\nTogether with the friends of the pupils, about a dozen\\nscientific and literary gentlemen were present at the\\nquarterly examination of his female school a few years\\nago. They were informed that no one had been taught", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 137\\nto recite in the language of any author their instruc-\\ntion being by conversation only. The gentlemen were\\nrequested to ask any questions they pleased, on any of\\nthe branches which were taught in the school. The\\nquestions were miscellaneous; skipping without any or-\\nder or connexion, from astronomy to geography, arithme-\\ntic, optics :.c. All the scholars, save one who failed\\nthrough diffidence, returned correct answers in their own\\nwords, even to questions that required considerable com-\\nbinations of thought. The Professor of Philosophy, on\\ncoming out, told me that he had never witnessed a more\\ngeneral and correct knowledge of astronomy on the exami-\\nnation of a collegiate class.\\nFew however, possess that peculiar faculty of touching\\nthe keys of intellect so as to cause vibrations responsive\\nto the wish of the master. A peculiar tact at seizing on\\nthe first rising; of a wish, or the first intimation of curios-\\nity in the mind of the pupil, and of attracting it attentive-\\nly to the single object of desire, seemingly without any\\nother aim than the gratification of a laudable curiosity,\\nmade Mr. C. the fascinating leader while he appeared on-\\nly the fellow inquirer, after a true explanation of every\\nphenomenon.\\nHe always had a motive, and casual suggestions would\\nlead to remote conclusions. The memoirs of Dr. Frank-\\nlin, and the notice of his kite, caused some inquiries a-\\nbout Electricity, and the lads were desirous of seeing the\\noperation of an electric instrument. They were gradually\\nled from this to other topics lightning the aurora Borea-\\nlis meteors the production of fire by friction wheth-\\ner fire was of the same nature as liwhtnincr c. Curios-\\nity being intensely engaged, one of the boys was di-\\nrected to enter a dark closet, and rub a large dry decan-\\nter with flannel, or silk, the other boys wailing without.\\n12*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 EXCURSION TO WiNNIPISEOGEE.\\nThey soon heard an exclamation, and the boy rushed out,\\nplayfully exclaiming that he was on Jire. *A plate of\\nglass 12 inches square was then placed on the table, and\\none made to rub it in the same manner, and sparks soon\\nappeared. After some conversation, mathematics were\\nresorted to, which led to the conclusion that if twelve\\ninches of glass would produce so much fire, twenty-four\\ninches would give double that quantity again, that if\\nthe number of times which the hand went over the twelve\\ninches could be increased to twenty-four, the same would\\nbe effected but the hand could not be moved so swiftly\\nas tha fliers of a spinning wheel, at length, one of the\\nboys started in ecstasy, exclaiming, have it, a glass as\\nas big as our grindstone, and whirled in the same manner\\nwill be completely the thing wanted. The complete\\nidea of an electric instrument, as a means and not an\\nend, was thus fixed, and ever after all Instruments were\\nknown to be but modifications on, or improvements in\\npower, of this simple machine and that the sparks which\\nthey shook from their flannels when undressing on a cold\\nwinter night were electric showers of that invisible fluid\\nwhich is diffused through all nature around him, and\\nin him and thus, if the master please to moralize, he\\nmight illustrate the universality and omnipresence of the\\ninvisible Deity.\\nIf in any one thing Mr. C*** was more strictly syste-\\nmatic, than in another, it was to what the French call the\\nart Raconter or narration in which they excel. Proper\\nwords in proper places were required in all cases and he\\nconsidered conversation as much an exercise of improve-\\nment as any other part of education. Every error in the\\nlanguage in which any thought, both in familiar discourse\\namonof themselves, and in the more formal communica-\\ntion with the teacher, must be corrected, and never re-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 139\\npeated. Never, said he, reject a word that is proper,\\nnor seek for one that is more elegant for this inevitably\\ncauses hesitation. Those which you know, and come\\nvoluntarily, are sufficient their grace depends on their\\npositions reading and conversation will increase their\\nnumber, and those which flow with ideas are always nat-\\nural. And above all things acquire the power of maintain-\\ning a perfect composure; haste produces confusion;\\nthinking for a better word, hesitation and affectation.\\nPrecision and perspicuity are the two great requisites of\\nconversation as well as of writing other qualities are\\nrequired and will be insensibly attained in composition.\\nAnd it must be remembered that a language, or the prop-\\ner use of words is not be learned from a dictionary, but that\\nthe true meaning and use of the word is to be learned by\\nthe sense it has when combined in a sentence, and this\\nrequires practice and extensive reading.\\nThus his scholars were not more to be remarked for\\ntheir rightly understanding every thing they studied, than\\nfor the fluency, simplicity and even grace displayed in\\ntheir common talk. And this was still more to be re-\\nmarked, as it is rarely attended to in schools even of the\\nhighest order vulgarities, and errors in grammar in\\ncommon intercourse, being never noticed by masters\\nsave in recitations of lessons; and to the shame of pa-\\nrents, is neglected in the daily intercourse, where all\\nwhich the schools have taught, is to be shaped and pol-\\nished into useful ends. Tis the parent which shapes the\\nends, rough hew them as you will.\\nFortunate are those children, whose parents, less fond-\\nling and indulgent to their own selfish gratification, al-\\nways bear in mind, that manners are of their peculiar for-\\nmation and that ease, copiousness, and grace in con-\\nversation are great and useful accomplishments. And", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "140 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nthat these are to be learned at home, and become a hab-\\nit, never wanting public occasions to call forth those ap-\\nplauses which vain people are always desirous of obtain-\\ning for the displays in music, dancing and dress of their\\nchildren, and for which they are not seldom privately\\nridiculed by the like sister aspirants.\\nIn the Academy for females, the pupils were pursuing\\nstudies suitable to their ages, in several apartments under\\nthe superintendance of assistant instructors though at\\nstated hours they assembled in one room for general ex-\\nercises.\\nThe arrangement of the establishment appeared to be\\ndissimilar to that of any other seminary and we found\\nthe studies to be more various and extensive, though far\\nless laborious and sedentary.\\nIn conversation with the Preceptress, she said that\\nMadame Genlis, and Miss Edge worth, had furnished her\\nwith many hints, on which she had endeavoured to im-\\nprove in practice. She professed not to give a showy,\\nbut a useful education and happily the parents were\\nsuch reasonable people as to prefer a general knowledge\\nof the affairs of the active world, to the more recondite, or\\nfashionable studies. She wished to appear as little as possible\\nto givedirect instructions, but to leave her pupils to instruct\\nthemselves. If she could excite attention to the aspect of\\nnature, and lead her scholars to discriminate the few sim-\\nple principles which entered into the composition of all\\nbodies, producing an infinite variety by the mere propor-\\ntion and distribution of parts, curiosity would be sufficient-\\nly active to keep them in corporeal and mental exercise.\\nThe vegetable and the mineral kingdom, would at least\\nmake every pleasurable walk a source of instruction\\nand every step in the knowledge of the economy of na-\\nture must enlarge and exalt their minds.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "EXCUKSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 141\\nIn one room was a table covered with plants, and\\nanother with fragments of rocks. These were picked\\nup during their walks, and reserved for examination at\\nleisure then to be separated, and assigned, according to\\nsome specific property, to different parcels. Thus on ex-\\namining the flowers, similar characters designated the\\nfamily to which they belonged. Families were again\\ndesignated by names; and these families were again sub-\\ndivided according to their deviations from the primary\\ncharacteristic. Thus, one of the girls pointed us to a\\nsuperb wild flower. That, said she, we call Eve, and those\\nare her children, twenty seven in number, all varying in\\nsome particular from each other, but agreeing in one gen-\\neral family character.\\nThere, said another, are seven primitive chrystals, and\\nhere are fifteen specimens of the rocks which compose\\nthe hills in this neighborhood and they are all formed\\nby a combination of those seven, in different proportions.\\nThus without any knowledge of Linnaeus or any sys-\\ntematizer, they were acquiring a practical knowledge of\\nbotany and mineralogy. Nothing was suffered to pass\\nwithout notice every tree was known and from the woods\\nand meadows, specimens of every plant had been trans-\\nplanted to the garden, so as to form a complete collection\\nof native flowering shrubs, forming a luxuriant display of\\nnatural beauty.\\nA kitchen garden, laid out in squares, was wholly cul-\\ntivated by some of the scholars, and which furnished\\nsome knowledge of vegetation and horticulture. Every\\nlittle plantation partook of the nature of private and of\\npublic property. That is, each was the property of one\\nfor cultivation, and the property of the seminary for use\\nthe products, when wanted for the table, being appraised,\\nand the value credited to the owners account.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nThe business of the world, so little understood by fe-\\nmales so far as it could be shown in such an institution,\\nwas exemplified, by a mercantile system. The lessons, of\\ncourse, both of hand writing and arithmetic, were practi-\\ncally connected with business. And the account books\\nof each scholar, were kept with great neatness, and cor-\\nrectness. The method adopted was on principles that\\napply to useful purposes to form habits of well regulated\\neconomy, and correctness, while it cherished benevo-\\nlent affections by making prudence the means of useful-\\nness to others and the end of industry.\\nThis plan was much aided by another. At the com-\\nmencement of each term, the pocket money of every\\ngirl was placed in a common treasury, constituting a\\nbank the contribution of each being subject to her order\\nalone, without restriction or inquiry. For the purpose of\\npractising and understanding accounts, the money was\\ndrawn out by orders or checks the amount charged in\\nthe Bank-book, and credited by the scholar in her own.\\nIn her own book she charged the Bank with the sura de-\\nposited, and herself with every disbursement; and at cer-\\ntain periods every account was examined, and settled in\\nboth books, and the balance paid over according to its\\nappropriation. This balance, instead of being paid to\\nbe expended by each individual on herself, had a specific\\nappropriation of a charitable nature, involving two mo-\\ntives of great utility that of prudence, and of benevolence.\\nThus if the stock was forty dollars, and but thirty had\\nbeen drawn out, the balance of ten was destined for the\\nbenefit of the poor children of the Sunday school. The\\ndistribution of this was a new and powerful stimulus.\\nThis method precluded all that exercise of judgment\\nwhich frequently compels the distributors of the Frank-\\nlin Medals to witness the most violent emotions of sensi-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 143\\nbility in those who are unsuccessful candidates, for here\\nnothing is left to discretion the balance of the book, is\\nthe absolute rule of decision and no jealous feelings\\nare roused, while the active motive is of the noblest self-\\ndenying nature.\\nInstead of paying these balances into the hands of the\\ngovernors of the Sunday school, each scholar is her own\\nalmoner. By general consent, the balance was appor-\\ntioned among those, who, without denying themselves\\nany gratification or committing any breach of decorum,\\nhad not expended the full amount of their own money.\\nDuring the term, the girls were induced to notice the\\npoor children, and select the subjects on which they\\nwould bestow their charity. Accordingly on the receipt\\nof their balances, they immediately proceeded to invest\\nthe money in articles of necessity and to carry and be-\\nstow them on the children they had selected.\\nIn short, in this institution, in addition to the usual\\nstudies, the whole business of house-wifery, extending to\\nthe art of buying and selling, the fabrication of clothes,\\nc. c. were attended to and understood and even\\nthe superintendance of the kitchen, and parlor, was per-\\nformed in rotation. And the great engine which was\\nthe spring of the whole, was the application of all the en-\\nergy of an inventive mind.\\nOn alighting at the Hotel, we were received very\\ncourteously by the landlord, and ushered into a\\nroom that had the appearance of city elegance. Not\\nlong after, supper was announced. Passing through\\na spacious entry, the door of a large hall was opened, and\\na show of considerable magnificence was presented. A\\ntable, long enough to accommodate sixty persons, stood\\ncovered with furniture that would be thought rather too\\ncostly for a very reputable tavern in the capital. It is too", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "144 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\noften the case, that country Inn-keepers overload their\\ntables with superfluous dishes, deeming that abun-\\ndance is the perfection of good house-keeping. It is\\nrare that one is found, who has the good taste, to hit on\\nthe proper medium between profusion and parsimony\\nand so to arrange the substantial and ornamental parts of\\nthe entertainment, as to please the eye of the most fastidi-\\nous by their order, and the appetite of all, by the variety\\nof viands, and goodness of cooking.\\nTwo elegant young women, moved silently about the\\nroom, now and then pointing the servants to something\\neither to be removed, or supplied. But if the arrange-\\nments of the room and table surprised us a little, the\\nsight of about forty gentlemen dressed as guests for some\\ncivic feast, surprised us more.\\nWe at first, doubted whether we ought not to retire\\nfrom a company to which we had no introduction but we\\nremained on being informed that these were members of\\nthe Legislature then in session, who lodged at the Hotel.\\nMr. B an old acquaintance, and now a member\\nof the House of Representatives, came up, and after due\\ncivilities had passed, conducted us to seats, and during\\nsupper, acquainted us with the~ character of many of the\\nleading members of the assembly and invited us to at-\\ntend the debates on the morrow, when an important polit-\\nical question was expected to call forth the talents of the\\nmost prominent characters among the two parties which\\ndivided the State.\\nOn asking for some explanation respecting the ap-\\npearance of the members at the table, whose dress\\nand address, were so remarkably distinguished from\\nthe Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts, he re-\\nplied, that peculiar circumstances influenced the elections\\nof this year, and fewer farmers were returned than usual;", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 145\\nthough I think, said he, that in the numerous as-\\nsembly of Massachusetts, generally there is a greater\\nproportion of yeomen, than in the assembly of New Hamp-\\nshire. You do not see our farmers they mostly put up\\nat prirate houses lawyers, physicians, and traders, take\\nlodgings at a more expensive Hotel so that you see here\\na select body of persons, who having had, from the na-\\nture of their several callings, a more extensive intercourse\\nwith polished society, have acquired a little more taste in\\ndress, and more ease and confidence of manners togeth-\\ner perhaps with a more worldly ambition, and an undaun-\\nted spirit of intrigue. New Hampshire, you know, is an\\nagricultural, though called the Granite State. It is\\nstrictly granite in heart, though that heart may be, and is,\\nwrought upon by the numerous tools incessantly employed\\nin stamping upon it the image of some idol to be wor-\\nshipped. In what class of mortals such tools are most\\nabundant whether in that which is insatiable for civic\\nhonors; or tormented with a restless spirit of change on\\nor leaping after wealth on the railroad of power certain\\nit is, hat the great mass of the N. H. population are dispos-\\ned to sit quietly under their own orchard trees, and so would\\nremain, did not the loud and frequent calls from abroad\\ndisturb their repose, and create a belief of some real\\ndanger. No man thinks that he is under the influence\\nof another; but is gratified by finding the other coincid-\\ning with him in opinion. The more artful take advan-\\ntage of this weakness, and honest self-love is made the\\ndupe of the designing. The principles of liberty are so\\ninterwoven in the constitution of the people, that the least\\nsurmise of its danger, arouses their jealousy, and he who\\nsucceeds in inflaming this passion, has a powerful ele-\\nment at his command.\\nWhile the honest yeoman, resting in the rectitude of\\n13", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nhis principles, and believing that the civic constitution em-\\nbodies those principles as the rule of all the acts of the Gov-\\nernment, he is peculiarly liable to admit the unfavorable\\nconstructions which are made on those acts by interested\\nand artful politicians. Not having leisure, nor means of\\nanalyzing the whole operations of Government, the con-\\nstruction which is openly and boldly given by demagogues\\nis readily admitted, till they accumulate into a mass of\\nevidence which makes him believe that all the meas-\\nures of a particular administration are but parts of a sys^\\ntem calculated to violate his principles, and undermine\\nor overthrow the constitution. Under this impression,\\nhebecomes the member of a party, and supports all their\\nmeasures even should the agents be otherwise considered\\nas dishonest men.\\nIn fact, antifederalism, or whatever name be used, is\\nbut the effervescence of that party lever, which, for a time\\nputs the whole body in commotion, but which state being\\nunnatural or accidental, finally subsides into that pure\\nand genuine Republicanism, which constitutes the heart\\nand soul of his being.\\nThe fibres of liberty are in the very soil of humanity.\\nThey may be checked, but never killed. Compression\\ngives strength, and the heaviest as well as the lightest\\nload, is thrown of by their vigor. Liberty is the univer-\\nsal attribute of man, and it is developed by cultivation.\\nIts light and its heat radiate from every sentient being\\nat first, weak and diffused, but converging through con-\\ndensing lens, gathers to a focus, and withers every obsta-\\ncle that attempts to intercept its power. Hence the great\\nmen whom History immortalizes, are but the organs of\\npublic feeling, and serve to mark the age with intellectu-\\nal glory, or to brand it with the disgrace of moral degra-\\ndation.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGrEE. 14T\\nIn the rectitude of the public mind, lies the stability of\\nsocial order and the whole art of legislation is so to com-\\nmute individual interest, as to make even the conflicting\\nharmonize with the general good. While the individual\\nseeks his own exclusive interest, the philosophic States-\\nman, seeing all the parts of the system, and anticipating\\nthe bearing of every single act, raises up other interests,\\nby the collision of which, the best effects may result from\\ncontrary and violent measures. Every man thinks justly\\non single subjects, but only he, who by reflection analyzes\\nand generalizes and condenses his thoughts, and has the\\nart of conveying the just conceptions of his own mind\\nin the clear and perspicuous language of common sense,\\npossesses the power of making truth visible. And this\\nis the perfection of that oratory which is simple, clear\\nand impressive from which reason cannot escape and\\nconviction is the consequence. Tis the perversity of\\nwrong motives, and insane passions only, that violate\\nthe consciousness of truth.\\nObserve, continued he, that little man. Hear\\nhim dictate what a confident tone what a consequen-\\ntial nod He has long been the organ of a great par-\\nty and often the trumpeter of sedition. He is possessed\\nof mischievous talents, and they are always employed in\\nintrigue. Power has been his great object, and decep-\\ntion the means of obtaining it. He made himself too\\nstrong to be neglected when his party succeeded. He\\nhas a list of persons for every office, and the heads of de-\\npartments dare not reject his nominations. Already his\\nmenials have been promoted to good livings, but they are\\nof such a voracious cast, that the regular emoluments of\\noffice will not gorge their appetites; and all enormities\\npass without notice, provided the men are true to their\\nmaster, and do his bidding without regard to means. Or-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\ndinary services, says Mr. Burke, must be secured by\\nthe motives to ordinary integrity but I do not hesitate\\nto say, that that State, which lays its foundation in rare\\nand heroic virtues, will be sure to have its superstructure\\nin the basest profligacy and corruption. An honorable\\nand fair profit is the best security against avarice and ra-\\npacity as in all things else, a lawful and regular enjoy-\\nment is the best security against debauchery and excess.\\nFor as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw\\nwealth to itself by some means or other and when men\\nare left no way of ascertaining their profits but their\\nmeans of obtaining them, those means will be increased to\\ninfinity. If such were the majority of the people, we\\nmight despair of the Republic but there is a redeeming\\nhope, that the good sense of the public will reassume its\\nenergy, and emerge from the present cloud of infatua-\\ntion.\\nWhen offices, continued he, are impartially dis-\\ntributed, opposing parties neutralize each other, as they\\ndid in Washington s time. When they are conferred ex-\\nclusively on partizans, a powerful and mischievous body\\nis arrayed in the midst of the State they constitute a\\nministerial army. They annoy the peaceable, and stimu-\\nlate the unprincipled. They rake open the dens, and\\ndrag to the poll every profligate. They station them-\\nselves at every corner they waylay every voter they\\ninspect every ballot, and return to the black-book of the\\nBureau the name of every one who dares to exercise his\\ncivic right of voting conscientiously. They become tyranni-\\ncal and oppressive, by hanging together, not to support the\\nlaws they are bound to execute, but to spy out actions, and\\nforage for plunder they lose all regard to equity and de-\\ncency by the association of numbers; nothing short of\\ngross enormities can endanger their places nothing good", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 149\\ncan be expected from their principles and yet, singular\\nas it may appear, it is the very moral feeling of the pub-\\nlic, that prevents these people from being driven with\\ncontempt from the poll. A profound respect for general\\nrights being the glory of Republicanism, they submit to\\nminor evils for the sake of sacred principles. Though\\nvituperative, there probably was m.uch truth in Mr. B s\\nobservations.\\nThe debates in the house were of the same nature,\\nand not more interesting than those of our own Legisla-\\nture saving that in the smaller assembly, motions on\\ntrivial subjects were less numerous, and the ambition of\\nlegislating less active. A large Representation exhibits\\na better picture of society at large a small and more se-\\nlect number, converges the wisdom of the State. The\\nKnights of Chivalry, had a retinue of non-combatants\\neach modern Knight of Legislation, has as numerous a\\ntrain, whose sole occupation seems to be that of seconding\\nthe motion, or of encumbering the march of his princi-\\npals. There is always a strange propensity in large as-\\nsemblies to legislate on small affairs every private or lo-\\ncal inconvenience, is proposed to be remedied, and laws are\\npassed for those purposes, to which all but the interested\\nare indifferent.\\nOne of the greatest evils of a popular assembly arises\\nout of the liability to change, before its members have time\\nto become practically aquainted with its rules and orders\\nmuch less with the general principles of Legislation. A\\nproject, popular in a Town or County, will frequently\\nproduce a change in the whole representation. Hence\\nfew, or no members will be found, whose knowledge of\\npublic affairs, and intimate acquaintance with previous en-\\nactments, enables them to detect and expose the incon-\\nsistencies, and interferences of the measure proposed\\n13*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "150 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nwith the provisions already in force. And hence the\\nmost partial, and frequently iniquitous enactments are\\nmade, while general laws are sketched so imperfectly, as\\nto require endless revision on revision. Laws, says\\nMontesquieu, should not interfere where public opinion\\nwill rectify. Common Law is public conscience and\\nwhere public conscience is enchained to the Statute\\nBook, society is liberated from this great law of nature;\\nmorals are measured by artificial rules and the gener-\\nous and noble spirit of humanity, thrust out of the con-\\ngregation of the legally righteous, by, what is called, the\\nperfection of human reason. I reqsiire, says Shylock,\\nnothing more than what the bond specifies.\\nOne consideration, however, said Mr. B., recon-\\nciles me to a large representative assembly for, with re-\\nspect to the unnecessary consumption of time in debate,\\napopular objection\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I find little difference between a House\\nof Representatives of 500 and a Senate of 40. Legisla-\\ntors havinof to act upon all subjects which relate to social\\nlife, require a minute knowledge of the concerns of men\\nin society and this, their own experience cannot give.\\nThe representatives of every class and profession can\\nalone supply its place. These representatives likewise\\nacquire a knowledge, not only of the general principles\\nof government, but of the vast variety of subjects in de-\\ntail on which government is to act. From such descrip-\\ntions much is added to every man s small stock, and he\\ngoes back, and diffuses among his constituents, knowl-\\nedge that they otherwise could not obtain.\\nOn arriving at H we found the door of the Ho-\\ntel besieged by a crowd of people. A number of young\\nwomen, emigrating from a remote factory, were discharg-\\ned from two stage coaches at the door. It appeared that\\nthese passengers, displeased with some new regulations,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. l5l\\nhad left their employment in disgust, and having no means\\nof paying their fare, were refused conveyance any further.\\nThe town s people were remonstrating against this pro-\\nceeding, and threatened the drivers with prosecution for\\nleaving paupers on the town. After much altercation,\\nthe women were re-embarked, and proceeded on their\\nsearch for employment in some other factory. The di-\\nrectors of most factories are very sedulous to promote\\neconomy among the work people but however prudent-\\nly disposed a girl may be, it is almost impossible to check\\nimprovidence where a great number congregate, and the\\nnatural disposition for amusement and dress is cherished\\nby association. Where savings Banks have been estab-\\nlished, a spirit of economy has inevitably prevailed. In\\none factory we visited, it was made a condition that one\\nper cent should be reserved out of all wages, for the pur-\\npose of supporting a Lyceum, for the benefit of the work\\npeople.\\nFarewell, the country we now approach the metropo-\\nlis and what good have we obtained by this tour to\\nWinnipiseogee Health one thing desirable what\\nmore? the confirmation of the old opinion, that change\\nis good for the mind and heart dissipating local preju-\\ndices expanding the affections and rendering us less\\nliable to be disturbed by trivial inconveniencies what\\nmore impressions of nature that will remain as long as\\nmemory retains its power and further, that pleasant\\nrecollections are far more useful, interesting, and influ-\\nential in life, than hope.\\nAnd now, with the addition of the report of our friends\\nwho went out a few years ago in search of the centre of\\nthe earth, suppose you should sew these cards together,\\nand when you go to Winnipiseogee two years hence, take\\nthem with you for the sake of comparing notes You", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "152 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nknow they are memoranda of thoughts and things with-\\nout order, and written without any care, sometimes with-\\nout ink, or the use of eye sight, therefore with omis-\\nsions which you have to supply, orthography, grammar,\\nand punctuation to correct and to be regarded as con-\\nversational only.\\nExtracts from the Report of those who went out in search\\nof the centre of the earth.\\nAnd as we sojourned at the foot of mount Tug, we\\nsaw the gowns of the young prophets streaming to the\\nwind, as they hastened onward, pulverizing the hard\\ngranite, and making the pillars of the solid hills to trem-\\nble with their determined tread.\\nAnd the youthful academicians, ceasing their fencing\\nexercise and their mimickry of the Trojan games, thrust\\ntheir foils under their arms, as they ran from every quar-\\nter towards their several domiciles.\\nAnd the grave doctors hastening from the venerable\\nand beautiful oak-groves of the good man Abbot groves\\nfavourable to contemplation and full of the spirit of heav-\\nenly prophecy took longer, but not quicker strides, as\\nthey rounded the corner of conventioner Kneeland, thick-\\nening as the cranes on the approach of a storm, and who,\\nwheeling round Nantasket head, fly over the beach to-\\nwards the firm land, and seek the covert of the dark shel-\\ntering woods of the great blue hills.\\nThe maidens too, who had wandered to the top of Car-\\nmel to inhale the balsamic fragrance of the dark foliaged\\nspruce, and gather throb-repellent hearts-ease, and the\\nred straw of the buck-wheat for bandelets.\\nAnd she who, truant to the praying assembly, canopied\\nby the ancient oak, hung over the azure waters of the", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 153\\nShawshin, spell bound by the wizard stream, and swel-\\nled in her imagination every ripple to a mountain wave\\nover which her destiny might lead\\nAnd she, to whose poetic eye every motion of leaf or\\nwood or tumbling wave had charms, of power to impress\\nher soul and engage her fancy to whom every dash of\\nthe mountain, water-fall suggested thoughts and images,\\n.pure and brilliant as the diamond-sparkles, which che-\\nquer the caverns of the deep, all glided rapidly along by\\nthe fences and walls, careful to avoid the reproving eye\\nof the too severe matron, yet not unambitious of the na-\\ntive look and courteous bow of the Virgilian, whose heart,\\nalways bounding to the innocent simplicity and the fem-\\ninine graces of his fair Andoverians, gave impulse to\\nan arm of courtesy.\\nWhile Nomotheta and Nomarch, whose noctilucal\\ncountenances seemed yet sensible of the heresy of deep\\npotations from the Armenian cydervaults of farmer O***,\\nand the hale and panting young men, who after sporting\\non the lake had refreshed their spirits with the sweet diet\\ndrink, tempered with drugs of sovereign power to as-\\nsuage the disordered nerves, quitting the neat tables of\\nwhite pine, issued from the low hut of the centenary Pom-\\npey, each taking a sedative of moss from the north side\\nof an oak rail, and a lightning rod of house-leek, to ward\\noff the chance discharge of a thunder cloud.\\nAll these and many more, a chequered multitude, has-\\ntened homeward, scattered like pigeons which the Wil-\\nmington hunter has frighted and dispersed by the burst-\\ning of his fowling-piece.\\nFor lo the tops of the distant Wachusett, and of the\\nMonadnock, that form the weather-guage of the mariner\\nof the Atlantic, and of the hunter roving towards the St.\\nLawrence, began to be shrouded in mist and soon the\\nclouds ascending from the north, and the south and the", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "154 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\neast, and the west, congregated over the summit of mount\\nTug, darkling as the swallows, who at the autumnal\\nsummons assemble from all quarters on the willows of\\nCambridge, before they break wing and shower away to\\ntheir several Hibernacula.\\nAnd the rains of heaven descended upon the Academy,\\nand the Institution, and flowed thence bountifully in ev-\\nery direction, filling the deep wells, swelling the rivers\\nand causing the little brooks to bound, to sparkle, to mur-\\nmer, and to sport with the virgin lillies that bent over,\\nand receded, and nodded, and danced on their margins,\\nlike innocent maidens, when with gentle gaiety they fling\\ndew-drops, and rose buds, and dashing laughter, among\\ntheir companions.\\nAnd the Andoverian said, surely this is the centre of\\nthe earth, for behold it toucheth the clouds, attracteth and\\ncondenseth the vapours, and thence diff useth the wa-\\nters through all the regions of the world.\\nAnd the waters, by their exaltation and tenuity, are pu-\\nrified from all the feculencies of the lower climates, and\\npossess the sweetness and softness of the Hermetic Nile,\\nthe cleansing and salubrious qualities of the Jordan, the\\nsoul-affecting efficacy of the Ganges, and the energizing\\npower of the Mississippi.\\nAnd is not this process of nature like unto that of the\\nInstitution that is situated on this summit 1 for here as-\\nsemble all the clouds and the waters of knowledge to be\\nfiltered and purified from the feculencies which they have\\npassed, again to be poured out in refreshing and fertiliz-\\ning streams over the whole earth, truly indicating this to\\nbe the receptacle, and dispensing fountain of pure doc-\\ntrines? the source of the only element that will heal the\\nJeprous or that will change the heart, as the waters of\\nthe Potomac will remove the rotten fibre and substitute", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISSEOGEE. 155\\nin the wood immersed therein, a firm and substantial\\nwhet-stone, capable of receiving a polish and of resisting\\nchange\\nBut a man of Salem lifted up his voice and said, Like\\nmany other people, ye vainly dream that you are over the\\ncentre of the earth How limited and contracted are\\nthe views of those whose understandinfrs are not enlarsr-\\ned by navigation, and who form theories upon insolated\\nfacts We too should have fallen into the vulgar error,\\nhad not the expert mariners of Salem descended the de-\\nclivity of the ocean, and ascertained, that in returnincr\\nfrom Archangel, and from Ceylon, and from South- Wales,\\nand from Beerhing s straits, they had to ascend^ even to\\nthe inlet by Baker s Island 1\\nBesides, in a moral view, all other people as they have\\ndeclined from this primitive position, have degenerated\\nand become corrupt.\\nBut this primitive race still retain their lofty bearing,\\nand superior excellence, as they did when the warmth of\\npublic favour expanded the blossoms of John Endicott s\\nbenevolence, and prompted him to plant the green-bury\\npear-tree that now bends under the weight of its fruit, and\\nshowers upon his posterity of the seventh generation the\\nbounteous refreshments of the season\\nAnd besides, does there not remain on the pasture\\nground a huge rock balanced upon a pivot, which a\\nchild may turn, but which a man cannot overthrow\\nHow, if this were on the side of the earth, could it remain\\nin an upright posture 1\\nAnd while we journeyed into the interior, we came to\\na, wilderness of Pine barren, and we and our beasts thirst-\\ned, for there was no- brook for many miles.\\nAt length we discerned smoke curling over the high\\nhemlocks, as though it came from the chimney of an in-", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "156 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nhabited house, for it was columnar and wreathed, and\\nnot diffused and pitchy, as is the smoke of extensive\\nfires in the forests.\\nAnd we encouraged our beasts to proceed, by promis-\\ning them water and refreshments, for thouo;h not refrac-\\ntory, they wanted the alacrity which the distant smell of\\nthe provender of the Inn never fails to bestow.\\nAnd we wandered about from the time of the opening\\nof the wild rose, to the first inclination of its petals, for\\nthere was no path.\\nAt length the shining of the white wood of the fir-\\ntrees directed our steps for it was the custom to strip a\\nhand s breadth of the wood and bark at short intervals as\\na guidance to the plantation.\\nAnd the plantation was in the midst of stumps, yet\\nblack from the burning and the house was composed\\nof logs piled together, and roofed with the branches of\\ntrees interwoven and the fire was in the midst, and\\nthe smoke issued from an aperture under the southern\\nend of the ridge-pole.\\nAnd the forester had gone abroad in search of wild\\nberries and ground nuts, for as yet the maize was not in\\nthe milk, and the potatoe was in blossom.\\nAnd while we rested, we entered into conversation\\nwith the good woman, and learned the story of her poor\\nbut contented life.\\nAnd she inquired of our journeying, and whence we\\ncame and when she learned that we lived at the dis-\\ntance of five days journeying, even on the shores of the\\ngreat ocean, she was moved with compassion, and offer-\\ned unto us hospitality and succor, and wondered that we\\ncould live so far out of the world for she considered\\nher cottage, as placed in the middle of that part of the\\nhabitable world that was designed for the subsistence and", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 157\\naccommodation of man and of domestic animals, and that\\nwe lived almost beyond its margin.\\nSo, turning the heads of our steeds eastward, we de-\\nparted, and passed over the ground, and stood where the\\nwaters of the two great rivers, Connecticut and Merri-\\nmack murmur to each other, but never meet, but pass\\ndiverse one to the right and one to the left, like two mis-\\nsionary brides who mingle their departing sight as they\\nshed tender tears on leaving their beloved country, and\\nsail one towards the rising, and the other towards the\\nsetting sun, never more to mingle their devotions on the\\nsoil that gave them birth.\\nAnd it is reported that the moon once a month resteth\\non this spot and refresheth herself with the water of two\\nhemispheres, as Bainbridge on the passage of Leander re-\\nfreshed his hands in the contiguous waters of the four\\nquarters of the world.\\nAnd the sweet Poet of these mountains avoucheth for\\nthe intercourse of Endymion Bunker with the man in the\\nmoon, while his mistress is thus performing her lustra-\\ntions in the serene and tranquil noon of night.\\nAnd we departed and coursed along the banks of the\\nriver Merrimack.\\nAnd leaving Bradford, we came to a spot called Dal-\\nton s Hill.\\nAnd it afforded so varied and beautiful a prospect of\\nthe river the lofty, smooth, and cultivated hills the deep\\nstretching valleys the fertile plains the luxuriant or-\\nchards, and the clumps of dark woods vocal with lowing\\nherds and bleating flocks, interspersed with neat farm-\\nhouses and barns, and animated by blooming and healthy\\nchildren, and youth, and reverend age, that we thought\\nthat in this Arcadia there could be no vain presumption,\\n14", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "158 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\nor curious inquisition, or bigotted assertion of superi-\\nority\\nAnd though it was on the road that leadeth from New-\\nbury, it was unvisited by, and unknown to the Tourists\\nwho seek after curious landscapes with abrupt precipices\\nand broken caverns and all zig-zag unevennesses of pic-\\nturesque infertility nay, it was as a foreign country to\\nthe house-loving Newburyites themselves, for they trod\\nnot down the grass of their own public walks, nor vexed\\nthe rural air by their morning and evening excursions\\ncontent with the little variety their own mart of trade\\ncould display with nerves too obtuse to expand and\\nthrill, rejoice in the animating gales that wafted pleasure\\nand health unconscious of that invisible spirit which\\ndiffuseth a moistened and mellow glow over the complex-\\nion of beauty which imparteth elasticity to the limbs of\\nage, and giveth a masculine freedom to the chest and\\nmovements of vigorous manhood, kindling the dormant\\nsparks of beneficence and sensibility in decrepitude it-\\nself.\\nBut while we rested at the little Inn of the two doves,\\nwe heard some men disputing in the bar-room with ele-\\nvated voices.\\nAnd we attended to them and found that they were en-\\ndeavouring to determine upon the centre of the Earth\\nand after much animated debate they agreed that the cen-\\ntre of the Earth was at Grasshopper Parish\\nAnd when we were returning and had passed the\\nbreast-work which Washington made upon Winter Hill,\\nand had gotten within the sight of our beloved city, and\\nsaw the clouds of smoke rise from its graving-yards, and.\\nfrom its glass-house, and from the furnaces of the distil-\\nlers, of its care-dispelling cordials, and from its manufac-\\ntories, and beheld the towering dome of the State-House,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE. 159\\nand the towers and steeples of the Churches, and the lit-\\ntle pavillioiis on the hills, and the flags waving from the\\ntall masts of the man of war, and the merchant ships\\nand the chimnies, like friar s hood, and like sugar loaves,\\nand at length the undefined mass of innumerable houses,\\nand finally heard the ring of Christ s Church Bells, and\\nthe clinking of the shoes of our horses over the stone\\npavement, we were so overpowered by the pleasing sen-\\nsations, that all other places seemed to lose whatever\\nthey before had of excellence, and to be unworthy of re-\\ngard and our judgment was almost swayed to pronounce\\nour own city exclusively the very head and fountain of all\\nthat was good, and beautiful, and magnificent.\\nYet after we had received the congratulations of our\\nfriends, and finished the courteous greetings of our curi-\\nous acquaintances, we began to feel u. lassitude, and a\\nwant of subjects in the city to excite us to observation.\\nFor the slight traces and faint shadows of objects, and\\nscenes that had occupied our perceptions during our ex-\\ncursions, now arose in our meditative minds adorned with\\nall their original charms of novelty, making such pleasing\\npictures as to make all the show, and bustle, and pomp\\nof the city distasteful.\\nYet we forbore to publish a book, since we felt that we\\nhad not the power of conveying in apt and gracious\\nterms our views so as to make other men s minds the\\nmirror of our own, but we reported our discoveries and\\ninformation in plain words to the Advocate, and the Ad-\\nvocate embellishing and enlarging the same to the people,\\nthey were mortified\\nBut the Advocate consoled them by remarking, that\\nevery city was a little world within itself; that every sec-\\nond place had the ambition of being thought the first in\\nsome particulars, and that neither the simplicity of the", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "160 EXCURSION TO WINNIPISEOGEE.\\ngood woman in the forest, nor the ignorant prejudices of\\nthe people at the bar-room, nor the vanity of the Salem-\\nites, nor the exalted pretensions of the Andoverians,\\nthough undoubtedly at the centre of gravity, ought to dis-\\nturb the orthodoxy of our own opinions.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX\\nA.\\nIn laying out a Turnpike from Boston to Andover, the\\nCommissioners designed to remove a large and venera-\\nble tree, which stood in the centre of a very extensive\\ntract, from which four roads diverged in different direc-\\ntions. To deprecate the removal of so picturesque and\\nso useful an object, the following lines were addressed to\\nthe men employed.\\nTHE ANDOVER ELM.\\nNot that it took ten years, to form\\nThis clement shelter from the storm\\nOr gave one picture to the arts\\nOr taught the sculptor how to trace\\nThe lineaments of rural grace.\\nEnrapturing to all happy hearts\\nWhile from the parent-trunk, sprung out.\\nAnd spread their ancient sire about,\\nOf infant shoots, a shady host,\\nTheil: home their bosom s home to hedge,\\nOf filial piety the pledge.\\nWhile to the circle s verge they post\\nOrder, variety, and strength.\\nIn symmetry of breadth and length,\\nForming a whole, each single part,\\n14*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "162 Appendix A.\\nYet, in one greater whole combined,\\nBeyond the reach of mortal mind\\nBeyond the picturesque of art\\nNot that beneath its rustic bark,\\nRemain the fair distinctive mark\\nOf age on ages long gone by\\nOf sires, the green and lasting page,\\nMemorial of a sainted age.\\nBeneath its virgin soil who lie\\nWho, with a spare devoted band,\\nRedeemed from savage men the land\\nLaid the foundation, whence arose.\\nThough storms assailed and tempests beat.\\nDetermined Freedom s last retreat,\\nYow sacred Temples of repose\\nWould we invoke your arm to spare\\nThis Tree, high branching in the air,\\nCastincr a coolincj shade around,\\nWhere many a bird has built her nest,\\nAnd many a rover east or west,\\nA sacred resting station found.\\nWhether from Afric s sultry clime,\\nOr Cuba s grove of scented lime.\\nOr from the Ganges holy tide.\\nOr from the golden isles that gem\\nTh Atlantic, and the Iceberg s stem,\\nWhich rush the southern seas to hide.\\nTheir annual visits here who wing,\\nSpontaneous with the warming spring.\\nOn tepid gales that sweep the sea\\nWho, for us, hail in warbling strains,\\nOu7 native home delighted plains.\\nAnd their remembered cradle-tree", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "Appendix A. 163\\nBut that beneath its clement boughs,\\nThe ox a moment steals to browse,\\nRegardless of his galling chain\\nThat shepherd boys a moment grant,\\nWithin its shade, the flocks to pant,\\nShort breathing, midst their weary pain.\\nOne draught for half extinguished life.\\nSnatching with eager, bitter strife,\\nAmid a land with sweet that flows\\nAs though in mockery to tell.\\nHow men ungratefully repel\\nThe good which God for all bestows.\\nThat children, indolently gay.\\nImmersed in all the joys of play,\\nEscape the tyrant teaching rod,\\nThat female helplessness and woe.\\nFrom Church who, laboring heaven-ward, go,\\nHere find and ampler house of God.\\nThat pilgrims, with fatigue oppressed,\\nHere find a transient seat of rest.\\nAnd breathe of gratitude the prayer.\\nThat nature, while she decked the land,\\nHad bid these shading limbs expand,\\nWith a benignant mother s care.\\nHis solitary lyre, not strung.\\nSince mountain scenery among.\\nThat here, the minstrel of Savoy,\\nOnce more may touch the notes of pleasure.\\nBurst into wild, transporting measure\\nA new and transitory joy\\nThat while the sun with radiance glows,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "164 Appendix A.\\nHere meditative minds repose,\\nThe young with sportive wit and glee,\\nThe old with wise experienced saws,\\nPrudent in council, grave in laws,\\nCommix beneath the union Tree.\\nThat we, with troubles unperplexed,\\nFor meditation find the text, I\\nOf novel or poetic tale,\\nAnd in narration round us brin^j i\\nThe Idlers in a courteous ring,\\nWithout alloy of wit or Ale\\nThen pause, ere falls the galling axe\\nNot half, not all, your Turnpike tax,\\nYour all commanding power\\nCan build in years, a shade so kind.\\nAs nature raised for poor mankind\\nIn her creating hour.\\nADVENTURE OF THE TWO IPSWICH DOGS.\\np. 49.\\nAt Ipswich, just about the county bridge.\\nWhere the small river threads a stony ridge,\\nAnd where, alas sweet maidens, in despair.\\nOft sacrifice a favorite lock of hair.\\nBelieving in the ancient wizzard spell.\\nTo turn each ringlet to a pearly shell,\\nW^hose magic touch, with ciphers covered o er,\\nWill work a miracle, and Love restore\\nTwo dogs to Farley s tan-yard one attached\\nTo Story s mill the other nearly matched\\nIn size, in strength, in speed and with a brain\\nIngenious, sensitive, and somewhat vain", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "Appendix A. 165\\nOf a poetic talent loud and oft\\nTofjether, when the moon was in the loft\\nOf heaven s clear azure, like Thessalian hounds,\\nMade the hills echo with Pindaric sounds,\\nIn musical distraction, till they came\\nSofter, like hunters chiding mountain game.\\nCongenial spirits in near contact brought.\\nBy curious instinct feel each other s thought\\nLike lovers, who with sympathetic twine,\\nThoughts and the feelings of the heart divine\\nInvisible the wheels on which they roll\\nThe noiseless meshes knitting, soul to soul.\\nThe banks were high, the river ran between\\nTheir friendship, by the prying world unseen\\nWise politicians, severed by consent,\\nFrom nods and looks deciphering what was meant.\\nSometimes on holy-days abroad they meet.\\nOr on the bridge, or in some narrow street.\\nThen homeward hie, and sitting on the haunch,\\nBe musing innocently, as down launch\\nThe chips, and withered leaves, and tufts of grass,\\nTo ocean s deep eternity which pass\\nDemurely, without moving tail or paws,\\nWeighing with deep intent effect and cause,\\nReasoning conclusively on what they scent,\\nThen wag their happy heads, and smile content\\nNot gravity itself assumes to wear\\nA more imposing, self-complacent air,\\nWhen having paid the fine for every sin,\\nAnd pardoned for the past, might now begin\\nA new account, and running up a score,\\nMight bankrupt turn, and be discharged once more,\\nOr let some charitable deed suffice.\\nTo veil, or to retrieve a life of lies.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "166 Appendix A.\\nAlas should heaven demand each mortal pledge,\\nMan could not hold a single foot of sedge\\nIn law or equity, he dare not plead\\nBehold on record, the uncancelled deed\\nTwo curs more popular were not in town\\nTheir sweet demeanor brought them great renown,\\nNo gentleman was ever half so trigg\\nNo lady courted time so long to rig;\\nNo orator such pains unwearied took.\\nHis steps to measure, or to prim his look\\nWith hopes exterior, sedulous to win\\nFrom thoughts voluptuous, and from acts of sin\\nDress, and address, what mighty power they show\\nThey more than reason, rule the world below\\nSo sleek their ribs, so shining black their feet,\\nWith cloth of gold you might have lined the street.\\nAnd then unsoiled distributed in shreds\\nFor soldiers badges, and for courtiers beds.\\nNo man would think within such glossy hides,\\nA speculative intellect abides\\nFor deepest thinkers, made of steady stuff,\\nAllow no varnish-polish to their rough\\nAnd prone are men by outward signs to trace\\nTh interior labyrinths of native grace;\\nAnd deem, where beauty is possessed, a heart\\nOf gentle nature dwells, devoid of art!\\nAnd yet these dogs with spirit were endued.\\nNo engineering genius was more shrewd\\nInstinct with Algebra, they measured Mars,\\nAnd squared with ease the circle of the stars\\nThe minutes cast, each journey to commence,\\nAnd what projectile force required the fence.\\nNot more in war the mighty Buonaparte,\\nWeighed all the subterfuges of his art", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "Appendix A. 167\\nFormed all his plans to plunder or defeat,\\nSave disobedient winter howled retreat\\nThan they but beasts, like men, a chief select,\\nObey his call, his wise decrees respect.\\nWhate er he plans, if he directs the course,\\nFaith in his judgment gives their courage force.\\nOne of these dogs was through the village known,\\nTo courteous fawning singularly prone\\nWith skill intuitive, or tact refined,\\nTo feel and strike the chieftain s cord of mind.\\nNot even the great magician at the chain,\\nSo were controlled each vibratory brain.\\nHim, urchin boys would ride, but never pelt.\\nSeemed in his mouth that butter would not melt.\\nAnd yet distinguished by peculiar traits,\\nAn eye which keenly scrutinized his mates,\\nCurious, yet cautious, prying and yet sly,\\nKnew all that passed, yet never seemed to pry.\\nTwas known this dog had a peculiar mark,\\nWhich, like a glow-worm, glittered in the dark,\\nAs oft, so ancient fables fondly say.\\nRound genius infant head was seen to play\\nA lambent glory so, his ears between\\nA play of lunar beams was often seen\\nAnd when th aurora borealis lit the sky.\\nSparks like electric stars would skip and fly.\\nLike showers of fiery scales beside the bed\\nIn healthful wintry nights which flannels shed.\\nWhether this dog was of the Celtic race,\\nOr drew his Thesian origin from Thrace,\\nOr of that wild Castilian breed which slew\\nThe harmless priestesses of mild Peru\\nIs yet uncertain no heraldic scribe.\\nHas traced the pedigree, or marked the tribe", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "168 Appendix A.\\nOr borrowed to adorn a modern name,\\nThe gartered title of a wolfish dame\\nFor since nobility is sliding down,\\nSwifter the course, as weightier the renown.\\nA learned Phrenologist, who lectures read,\\nAnd missed no chance to finger a new head,\\nSaid twas an animal of little speed.\\nAnd of th Egyptian contemplative breed,\\nBohemian gypsies, chroniclers so write,\\nSmuggled the stock into the Isle of Wight.\\nThe furrows o er his eyes prognosticate\\nA metaphysical, or a reasoning pate\\nThe mild, and gentle curved retiring nose,\\nThe seat of complaisance and sweet lepose\\nThe soft, indented temples, must imply\\nA love of geometric symmetry\\nBut these discordant lumps above the jaws.\\nDenote a latent hatred of all laws\\nAnd lo this belted suture, broad and thick,\\nMarks wit, inventive, curious, sly, and quick\\nThis slight protuberance behind the ear,\\nA power peculiar to an engineer.\\nRetentive, calculating, and exact.\\nFitting a head remarkably compact\\nBut then those lips so mincing, and so thin.\\nDenote a slender intellect within.\\nSave when at times a lady passes by,\\nThey swell with moisture, and emit a sigh.\\nWhich show a sentimental turn at least,\\nNot common to an unromantic breast,\\nWho never from the fashionable novel took\\nThe tone of sighing, or the cast of look.\\nThe younger dog, submissively believed,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "Appendix A. 169\\nAll that his more decisive friend conceived\\nSo bold, determined counsellors impose,\\nAnd lead whole Senates often by the nose\\nAfter discussing broadly, twas agreed\\nTo make a nightly hunting o er the mead\\nAnd full of stirring metal for the chase,\\nTo choose an ample, but a secret place\\nThe time, when weary of the toils of day.\\nIn Town, the soldiers slept the night away.\\nFar from the Town, remote from war s alarms,\\nA tract extends of richly cultured farms;\\nFrom winds defended by a screen of hills,\\nSecured from drought by thousand gurgling rills\\nFrom one high rock, a grey and lofty ledge,\\nA fountain s spray foams sparkling o er the edge.\\nBetween two banks then gently murmuring glides,\\nAnd forms a mimic ocean without tides\\nWith laughing life the sportive banks are seen\\nTo wither last, and first in vernal green\\nOf tillage, easy to the single plough,\\nWith meads whose grass o erloads the spacious mow\\nThe sea in shells supplies a rich manure,\\nWhose nurturing virtues twenty years endur6\\nNot far beyond, a range of hills commence.\\nWhose black thick forests form a pierceless fence\\nThere feed this flocks by day, but every night,\\nA fold receives them in the owner s sight.\\nThere to the charge of youthful shepherds fall,\\nWith scores of oxen fattening at the stall.\\nShould chance or pleasure their return delay,\\nThe flocks all linger where they fed by day\\nWoman alone from tasks forbid to roam.\\nOld men and children, vegetate at home\\nThus when carousing at the public Inn\\n15", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "170 Appendix A.\\nMidst toasts and revels, and incessant din\\nWhere the sweet drops of oratory hill\\nEach prurient, pulpous, and encoring skull,\\nShould deadly sleep come hovering o er their eyes,\\nWere it a crime, if shepherds could not rise\\nSoon as the night her sable cloud had sp*read\\nThe watchful dogs, with soft and silent tread\\n\u00c2\u00bbBegan their march in single file they pass,\\nNor once saluted till the tedded grass\\nSank softly under feet th elastic air\\nSeemed to give pinions to the loving pair\\nThey leaped exulting on the downy flock\\nSo the sly Greeks the sleeping Trojans shock\\nFrom this to that they sprang, nor ceased to slay.\\nTill gleamed the streaks of thief-exposing day.\\nOf vulgar sheep, twere vain to number all.\\nFame s trumpet only sounds when chieftains fall\\nOf rich merinos, ten at least were slain.\\nThe dark fat bleaters of the flocks of Spain,\\nEach worth ten golden eagles brought to Greece,\\nWhen plundering Jason stole the golden fleece,\\nOf Colchian race, a progeny as rare.\\nExcept in Spain, as Norway s gristly bear\\nExclusive breed with shaggy wool as fine,\\nSoft, and tenacious, as the spider s line.\\nAt vast expense, through secret roads, by stealth,\\nWhen France unburthened Spain of cumbrous wealth,\\nA yankee captain, never at a loss\\nTo strike a bargain, or a knave to cross\\nA yankee captain, safe conveyed o er seas.\\nAnd gave his Sire, the hence diffusive fleece\\nWhen now the dawn gave warning of the day.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "Appendix A. 171\\nTowards home they- turned, but in a different way\\nFar north and west deserted tracts they took,\\nAnd broke their trail, with many a brawling brook,\\nIn Indian file, alert, and shy, and mute,\\nAll various arts assumed to shun pursuit\\nThen with an ample compass far and wide,\\nFrom 6very house, they skulked the wall beside,\\nAnd reached the river, half a mile beyond\\nThe wild duck meadow, and the beaver pond\\nCreeping along, they gained their wonted seat\\nEre the first cocks the rays of morning greet.\\nWhile in deep sleep, abroad the young men lay.\\nMorn, rosy morn, brought on the gladsome day.\\nMen, women, girls, the ancient, young, and fair,\\nThrow ope the doors, commence their daily care;\\nTo milking some, and some to yoke the plough.\\nSome tend the swine, and some ascend the mow:\\nSome o er the rustic style alertly vault.\\nTo count the sheep and bear the sacred salt\\nThe harmless sheep, alas will bleat no more\\nRed was the field with rivulets of gore\\nA cry was raised the cry became a screech,\\nScarcely resembling any human speech.\\nStruck with the sound, th expecting people stood\\nTo catch the roaring of the flaming wood.\\nOr hear of worse disaster one returned.\\nNo forest kindles, and no wood has burned\\nBut O the sheep some murderous bears by night\\nWreaked on the unguarded flock their raving spite\\nA Bear, a Bear, becomes the instant cry\\nTo rouse the town the children divers fly.\\nOld men and women rush some seize the scythes,\\nThat on the trees hung slanting to the skies;\\nSpits, pans, and stakes, and every thing of strength,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "172 Appendix A.\\nSome short, some broad, some of prodigious length\\nNot the first army ranged on Cambridge plain,\\nShowed arms more diverse, or a wilder train.\\nAll leap the fences, on the field encroach,\\nHush to assault, yet cautious to approach.\\nThere stood a copse, a hundred perch a-head,\\nWhere scarce was known a woodman s foot to tread.\\nSome superstitious notion, once impressed,\\nIn passing by, would start within the breast;\\nEven holy priests, who preach against the fear,\\nWould feel a sudden tingling of the ear,\\nAnd veteran men, in camps whose lives were spent,\\nQuickened their pace, and whistled as they went.\\nBut past the edge, none ever dared proceed.\\nIt was to most, a fearful place indeed\\nFor twas received for truth, here Satan hid,\\nWhen from the rock before the church he slid,\\nAnd left th impression of his foot a strong\\nMemorial that the lands to him belong.\\nFor by the sacred laws of nations, he\\nWho first possesses, has the legal fee\\nA doctrine state expediency suspends\\nWhen interest enters, equal justice ends\\nOr where the speculating nullifier stands,\\nCapidious of the Cherokean Lands\\nBut now, surrounded by the raging crowd,\\nEnter and hunt the Bear, was cried aloud\\nThe bear, the bear courageous hunters spring,\\nWhile round the copse, we women form a ring,\\nStrike with what arms you have, and lame at least,\\nTill some more fatal weapon kill the beast.\\nVain was the search at length an elder came", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "Appendix A. 178\\nSlow on his crutch he dragged a feeble frame\\nWise from experience, and in instinct read,\\nWaste no more time in seach of bears, he said.\\nLook round the field the evidence is plain.\\nThese sheep from wantonness, not need, were slain,\\nFor hungry bears too precious is the hour\\nThey kill for food, and what they kill, devour\\nTwas done by dogs, or some of puppy race,\\nWho kill for pastime, to their sires disgrace.\\nFirst through the town untraced the rumor flew;\\nThen came th express, and made the rumor true.\\nThen rose suspicion, pointing with her thumb.\\nAt the pale paupers who exist on rum\\nThen envy, starting from her green-eyed cell,\\nLet fall her hints that cankered as they fell,\\nOn lively youth, an ever sportive race,\\nWho loved the sprightly dance and active chace,\\nAnd sometimes indiscreetly overleap\\nA neighbor s fence, at which they blush and weep.\\nAlready had the ferment grown to strife.\\nAnd discord from the grind-stone snatched her knife.\\nAlready had the guards who slept too late.\\nCursed the militia musters of the state.\\nAnd leaping from the windows, raised a dust\\nAlong the distant road of their deserted trust.\\nWhen on his heavy-footed steed, it chanced.\\nThe Doctor with his saddle-bags advanced,\\nHis nightly visitations having led\\nHim o er the hills, even to the ocean s head.\\nAnd stopping in the midst, and wondering why\\nSo great a crowd, and wherefore such a cry.\\nHeard the disastrous tale and quick to catch\\nAt causes, ere they into action hatch\\n15*", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "174 Appendix A.\\n(Such are the leaps of genius, that they come\\nUntraced between the finger and the thumb;)\\nThe privilege of genius is, to strike\\nOut likenesses from substances unlike.\\nHe recollected, from the green-hill top,\\nHe saw two dogs into the meadow drop.\\nBut twas a glance alone he could not say\\nTwas when he turned to view the break of day.\\nTo guard from future ills, twere well to trace\\nIf any town-dogs had been out in chace\\nA sudden thought electrified the crowd,\\nThe bridge dogs, shout the people, long and loud.\\nAnd towards the bridge all rushed but twas too\\nlate\\nDogs have a wise presentiment of fate.\\nSo great men, when their interests decline,\\nSurmise defeat, and modestly resign.\\nFor now, beholding what a great array\\nOf men and boys were gathering on their way,\\nThey shook and quaked for guilt will always quail.\\nMen drop their eyes, and dogs submerge the tail\\nThey thought, although no evidence appears.\\nBetraying stains might hang around their ears;\\nSo skulking on the river s margin, fled\\nFull thirty miles, before they ceased to dread,\\nAnd took new quarters hence the certain fact,\\nThese dogs by science had performed the act.\\nSuch acts performed on some defenceless town,\\nTo martial heroes bring a great renown\\nAnd who desires a marshal s staff to gain,\\nHas only to recount the children slain.\\nWhy then, when heroes souls in dogs are placed,\\nFor the like action, should they be disgraced\\nM.S.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "Appendix B. 175\\n1\\nTHE TAVERN DOCTOR.\\nP A G E 58. V\\nWhat have we here A Doctor, by the sign,\\nA master of an art once deemed divine\\nNo pupil, sure, of Esculapius school,\\nTo cure by science, and to kill by rule\\nHim nature teaches well he knows to trace\\nThe sister-symptoms in each varied case\\nBe but one colored thread of fever shown,\\nBy instinct, all anomalies are known.\\nThe great specific waits on each disease,\\nFirst weak, though copious draughts of catmint teas.\\nIf the ear tingle, if the nose be red,\\nWhere others blistered, embrocated, bled,\\nEmolient melilot allays the smart\\nBalm cools the liver, sooths the throbbing heart.\\nDo pains infest the regions of the spleen\\nBind a black snake s skin warm, the ribs between.\\nIf melancholy humours most abound,\\nThe dreams distractive, and the sleep unsound,\\nAnd Hypochondriac megrims start and twitch,\\nBlack spirits rise, and temptingly bewitch,\\nTen drops of poppy nectar, freshly pressed,\\nWill lay the peccant agitants at rest.\\nMore serious evils if you apprehend,\\nYour brain still wander, and your eyes distend.\\nEspecially if round their orbits spread\\nA streak of yellow, or a tinge of red.\\nFrom barberry-bushes scrape the orange bark\\nObserve the time of scraping ^just at dark,\\nOr ere the dews exhale mistake in this.\\nAnd planetary influence you miss.\\nIn a brass basin, bruised, and on it pour", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "176 Appendix A.\\nA pint, not more, of June s salubrious shower\\nThis, taken in the morning, noon and night,\\nWill set the humours circulating riorht.\\nAnd in seven days, at farthest, all is well.\\nBut faith, full faith, is requisite to save\\nA melancholy patient from the grave\\nHe must believe, although his sense resist.\\nConscience must sleep, and reason be dismissed\\nHow can he know what is or good, or vile\\nAre not his optics prejudiced with bile\\nThrough such a medium, Newton s eyes had ne er\\nTraced out the orbit of the lunar sphere\\nBelief is half the cure to doubt, obstructs\\nThe free secretion of the spongy ducts\\nInquiry keep th inquiring spirit still\\nRebellion springs from freedom of the will.\\nNot ten black cat-skins, skilfully applied\\nAcross the bosom, or along the side,\\nOr seventeen leeches, ever can restore\\nThe valve elastic of one breathing pore.\\nIf the sick patient hesitate an hour,\\nAbout the Doctor s medicative power.\\nYet after thirty years experience, he\\nFound no specific equal fresh Balm Tea.\\nHe never practised what might sometimes harm\\nAnd what more innocent tiiat sprigs of Balm\\nBalm was the sovereign plant in David s reign\\nBalm eased the Queen of Sheba s love-sick pain\\nKing Solomon the wise, who knew all arts,\\nPronounced it cordial for all breakinor hearts.\\nJudah s fair daughters, than whom none were found\\nIn form more lovely, and in heart more sound,\\nSipped it each morning, and from thence a skin,\\nAs gauze translucent, rosy, fresh, and thin,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "Appendix A. 177\\nVeiled, as a painter veils in clare-obscure,\\nCharms, though voluptuous, yet as infant s pure\\nPure emanations of a soul divine,\\nWhere unobscured the stars of mercy shine,\\nWhence many a sweet Rebecca, wrapped in prayer,\\nBreathes the soft accents, soothing of despair\\nWhence on the dying couch the beamy ray\\nOf Hope celestial whispers, living day\\nPopes, reigning by authority divine,\\nIn conclave called it a celestial wine\\nAnd John and Martin, apt to wince and wink,\\nTempered their humours with the nectar drink,\\nAnd found a scruple vanish at each sip,\\nAs party maxims o er a mug of flip.\\nWhen at elections, all obstructions fail,\\nBefore the deluge of Jamaica d ale\\nNay Balm, than Soda-water drank at night,\\nWoo s sleep more sweet, and dreams of more delight\\nBetter than cans of dandelion tea,\\nBetter than hyson, or low-priced bohea,\\nBetter than holy johnswort laced with gin.\\nBetter than Turkish mead, or Metheglin,\\nTo quench the embrio passions, and assuage\\nAmbition s thirst, and controversy s rage,\\nSave where the love of gold is close allied\\nWith bloated, self-sufficient, impious pride;\\nThough both repellant, artfully combined\\nTo seize and spurn the weakness of mankind.\\nPride, that in every age, and in all states,\\nThe heart contracts, the head intoxicates,\\nFrom opposition that still harder grows.\\nLike iron underneath the hammer^s blows.\\nFrom its own entrails that subsistence draws,\\nAt once the end of living and its cause.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "178 Appendix B.\\nUnquelled remains\u00e2\u0080\u0094 unamiably aloof,\\nA granite fortress, cold and powder proof!\\nFashion in medicine, as in female dress.\\nOft springs from some material s great excess.\\nThe wily sempstress, eloquent of tongue,\\nInstalls some cap her costomers among.\\nAnd lo the patterns double fortunes waste.\\nAnd ten triumphant days how swims the Taste\\nNot so with balm the good old Leech of Coos,\\nPrescribed it then, as now does modern Morse.\\nTis like the Quaker garment, simply neat,\\nChangeless, becoming, graceful and complete\\nWell had the Doctor learned to probe man s mind\\nMen thought him skilful women found him kind.\\nSuch condescension in a Leech how rare\\nDespotic Doctors, no dissentient bear\\nSave Quaker L of whose sweetened cup,\\nThe rich may drink the poor may bitter sup.\\nTo men, as wiser, harder terms were used\\nWomen, as softer, gentler words amused.\\nAnd who so good to hear each fond complaint\\nPains of the vile, and languors of the faint?\\nWhole hours to listen to an old wife s tale,\\nFrom horrid dreams who predicates her ail\\nHer corns predicted some disaster nigh.\\nAnd then, the unusual twinkling of her eye,\\nA sure, portentous warning, to beware\\nLest she come tumbling from the old gray mare,\\nYet heedless of the warning, on she rode.\\nTill Dobbin started by the teamsters goad,\\nLeaped from the bridge, and plunged her head and heels\\nDeep to the bottom, midst the hissing eels.\\nHence daily palpitations, trembling limbs,\\nBefore her eyes a dreadful vision swims", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "Appendix B. 179\\nAround her heart the cold eels seem to curl;\\nHer head grows dizzy, and her senses whirl.\\nThus patient, listening, sits the Doctor down.\\nSips his brown mug, and pockets half a crown\\nSave here and there, oracular of lip,\\nOpinions bubble twixt each pause and sip.\\nWith patient ear he heard the tedious preach\\nIn words appropriate flowed his comely speech\\nAll is uncertain in this vale of tears\\nAll science changes with revolving years,\\nSave in old Rome, th eternal city, where\\nThe holy Pontiffs fill St. Peter s chair.\\nWho still, in spite of Galileo, hold\\nDiurnal Suns around this earth are rolled\\nThat demonstration with tradition jars,\\nAnd earth is central midst the host of stars\\nWho new reversing heresies declare.\\nWould topsy-turvey turn the Pontiff-chair.\\nFrom venial errors, trifling evils come\\nOf revolution Who can count the sum\\nHow much of war, ambition, lust and hate,\\nIs charged on patriots who reform the State,\\nBut whose reform boorins an a^e too late.\\nThe Jew s religion failed to hold its ground,\\nWhen a less cumbrous liturgy was found.\\nRome, that once governed every christian State,\\nShorn of her locks, resigned herself to fate\\nAnd when her Martin Luther dared rebel,\\nDrew her reluctant horns within her shell.\\nThe Hierarch s splendor, once so dazzling bright.\\nGrew dim before the Presbyterian light\\nWhat Calvin held in one age, sacred text,\\nWas deemed heretical and weak the next.\\nOpinions hard as adamant give way", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "180 Appendix B.\\nEven new opinions live but half a day.\\nWho knows, but what is now believed revealed,\\nMay yield, when truth s unerring book s unsealed\\nYet for our use we need not further look\\nSufficient what is clear in nature s book.\\nWhy need we take the whole machine apart 1\\nThe work of God and substitute our art\\nLike children, who the tinkling watch despatch,\\nIn hopes the spirit-musical to catch\\nThings that are made by God, are perfect made\\nCut down the tree, retires the grateful shade\\nYet what the shade protects, the sun too, cheers,\\nWarmed are its dew-drops, like affection s tears.\\nTo form this world, four principles conspire.\\nEarth, water, air, and all diffusive fire\\nSublimely simple, God Almighty s will,\\nFrom few begins, and few his plans fulfil\\nAtoms on atoms heaped, alike compose\\nThe hardest diamond and the softest rose\\nWith their own kind all particles delight.\\nPebbles, and globes, are formed as these unite\\nYet all commix in one dissolving fire.\\nAnd mountains melt, and animals expire\\nEthereal ethers all things thus dissolve,\\nCreation s Laws again the forms evolve\\nThe particles that form the rose to day,\\nDispersed, reblush in the succeeding May\\nThe ashy dust of yon gay temple frieze.\\nRises in plants or graceful forest trees.\\nThus on yon elm, adorned with fleecy snow,\\nFrom the rude south, the tepid breezes blow\\nFrom every leaf the gelid beauty shakes,\\nAnd the ground whitens with the playful flakes\\nFrom wondering children swift the snow-balls glide,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "i^PPENDIX B. 181\\nin flowing rills, to time s relentless tide,\\nYes, a new winter comes, others they see,\\nThe flakes dependant re-emboss the tree\\nSo soft or solid, all things hence combined,\\nIn man, the great receptacle of mind.\\nMixed principles give life, and life sustain,\\nBut disproportioned, tempest, death, or pain.\\nIf too much earth, then sluggishness prevails\\nIf too much water, slow, retarding ails\\nIf too much air, then hypochondriac throes,\\nIf too much fire, a raging fever glows\\nJust equilibrium to the whole restore,\\nDiseases cease, and tempests rage no more\\nAnd all the aim of science, is to know\\nWhich to subtract, and which in time bestow\\nAbstract the lightning, ere the clouds can meet,\\nIn flames descendino; comes no vivid sheet.\\nYet skill, exhausted in th attempt, departs.\\nFor mother Nature spurns officious arts.\\nIf elements are hostile in excess,\\nShe aims the raging tumult to repress.\\nAnd in his skill though man may feel secure,\\nTis nature s efforts that effect a cure.\\nAnd have the learned a more successful guess.\\nThan who more labors, and conjectures less\\nWho makes a system, to that system points\\nEach stubborn fact the system that disjoints.\\nIn physic, with all system leave the schools.\\nLet observation track out nature s rules\\nNature s continual efforts are to gain\\nThat equilibrium once disturbed by pain\\nTo aid her efforts, means of gentle kind\\nMust soothe and calm all nervousness of mind.\\nSuch fair accordance passed for matchless skill\\n16", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "182 Appendix B.\\nFor physic asked he gave his brown bread pill.\\nCompassion what compassion filled his breast\\nNo hour to pleasure lost, nor scarce in rest.\\nBy night, by day, in weather fair or foul.\\nWhen mewed no cat, and winked abroad no owl.\\nFrom the warm precincts of a downy bed.\\nWhen called, he rode to either sick, or dead.\\nWant you more proof? behold his wasted health.\\nExchanged for what? for consequence and wealth?\\nFor wealth, enchested for a thoughtless heir\\nFor consequence, to meet a vulgar stare\\nWealth the main object hence both heat and cold\\nDissolve before the magnet touch of gold.\\nAnd is not cash as innocently made\\nBy this, as by another s roving trade\\nAll, hazards run, where nothing is to lose;\\nAn even well-being necks the golden noose\\nThe gracious widow, her ricli master gone.\\nTo spendthrift boldness gives herself in pawn;\\nThe wealthy damsel, in romantic fit,\\nYokes to a tyrant profligate of wit\\nIn speculation many lives are spent\\nThe merchant wearies heaven for cent per cent\\nThe pirate prowling stems the ocean s strife,\\nFor plunder, hazards a precarious life.\\nAnd both look on for that propitious time.\\nWhen wealth acquired abates the sense of crime,\\nWhen ostentatious charities may bribe\\nThe world to pardon an obnoxious tribe\\nOr flattering conscience with a tythe of gain,\\nThough yet unquiet, mitigate her pain.\\nFrom golden products, swollen to a plum.\\nWhat cool reflecting aphorisms come!\\nFor hard experience all the past surveys,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "Appendix B. 183\\nAnd wakes, though late, to conscientious ways,\\nAnd many a prudent maxim strews to guide\\nAdventurous youth on life s tumultuous tide.\\nO come the day, when Science spreads her beam,,\\nFree, as through every soil, the virgin stream,\\nQ,uack mix no more the soul seducing drop,\\nNor death ensue with every limb they lop.\\nLaws punish frauds that scarce affect the purse,.\\nYet pass unnoticed life s immediate curse.\\nIs it less fraudful, nature in distress,\\nWhen the fierce torture rages in excess\\nWhen at the bed the child with anxious eye.\\nChills at each heaving breath and laboured sigh\\nWhen hopes and fears alternate, rise and sink,\\nAnd life hangs hovering on oblivion s brink.\\nWhen with full confidence the Leech s power\\nIs felt to shorten, or protract the hour\\nWhen too absorbed the bursting heart to flow,\\nAnd icy anguish checks the gush of woe\\nIs it less fraudful to the weeping wife,\\nTo him who lingers on the verge of life,\\nTo those dear babes whose years can scarce discerii\\nWhy all this grief, and whence this deep concern,\\nThat men unskilled to note the pulse s throb,\\nAt large should range, and life by license rob 2\\nCome then, O Science, mother of each art.\\nShow to weak man where truth and error part\\nShow him his nature, and how nicely joined,.\\nHis Frame corporeal and celestial mind\\nHow that impaired, the tenant glides unseen,\\nA houseless wanderer from a dome so mean\\nShow him the interior structure how the brain,.\\nPressed by the stomach, throbs with raging paia;;\\nHow thence reacting o er the vital core,", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "184 Appendix B.\\nScrews up the heart, and freezes every pore\\nThe breathing tubes in active function fail,\\nNor beat elastic to the heavenly gale\\nHealth s living tide, the blood s delightful speed,\\nAs rocks in rivers, cramps and aches impede,\\nTeach him the structure of the fine machine,\\nThe screws how nice, the razor edge how keen\\nThen, if he dare to hack, and wrench, and hew.\\nPain must succeed, and death itself ensue.\\nYet let him know that many a mortal ill\\nYields where the God imparts a nobler skill\\nGood science gives the ways of God to trace.\\nYet in subservience to the human race.\\nLife s purest current, each excess impedes,\\nFrom tube to tube the deadening torpor speeds\\nHealth s living tide, the blood s delightful flow.\\nThe eye s gay sparkle, cheek s celestial glow.\\nThe free, the light, th elastic spring of limb,\\nThe joyous bound, the graceful, dancing swim,\\nAll, all must cease are Nature s laws suppressed.\\nAnd food distend, and wines inflame the breast.\\ns. a\\nEND.", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3651", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "notesmadeduringe00lchale_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3651", 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