{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "*w* .-isai-. .-afe\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a00*\\n^-.c,^\\n^bV\\n^t.o^ l\\n^ov^ -^^0^ /^^M* ^o^y i ^m:, ^o^\\no\\no^\\n0..- .0^ ^i *-t;o a v.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^oV\\nbv\\n^\u00c2\u00b0-n^.\\n\u00c2\u00bbi.:nL\\njV .1... 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N:^\\nIf tliou art worn and Iiard bpset\\nWith sorrows that thou wouldst forget,\\nIf tliou wouldst read a lesson that will keep\\nThy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,\\nGo to the woods and hills! No tears\\nDim the sweet look that Nature wears. Longfellow.\\nyllEX the first wiltl-flowers bloomed along tlie roadsides, we began\\nto tliink of an outing. Where should we go for a few early\\nsummer rambles Somehow we got to talking about North Conway.\\nLet us have a look at the White Mountains from the elf-land vales\\nof the Saco, said one.\\nI eould eat a mountain this minute! cried the other.\\nForty-eight hours later we had been whirled northward past Chocorhua s\\nsky-piercing peak, and had settled in our comfortable lodgings between\\nKearsarge, lifting his Titan forehead to the sun, and the league-long\\nridge of ISIoat.\\nNew Hampshire has been well called the Switzerland of America.\\nTherein, against all rivals, North Couway retains, and may be expected\\nto keep, its surpassing attractions to artists and tourists. It is beautiful\\nfor situation to a degree not realized except by those who stay there\\nlong enough to take its walks and drives, and witness the magical trans-\\nformations of its scenery. Nature, says Drake, has formed here a\\nvast antechamber, into which you are ushered through a gate-way of\\nmountains ujTOn the numerous inner courts, galleries, and cloisters of her\\nmost secluded retreats. Certainly, said Starr King, we have seen no\\nother region of New England so swathed in dreamy (diarm.\\nOur first ramble, on the morning after our arrival, was in the Enchanted\\nWoods, a spacious grove of tall pines and lesser growths lying close to\\nthe village on the north a sable, silent, solemn forest. Philosophers\\nwho want to muse will find this a delightful spot provided they are al)Ove\\nsuch petty annoyances as mosipiitoes. Lovers who want to get away from\\nan unsympathizing world can find no more charming retreat than this in\\npleasant weather. Artists who .sei k exquisite woodland effects will not\\nmiss them here. And just here, where the silence is broken only by the\\nsoft sighing of the wind in tlie tree-tops, and tlie commingled sounds of\\n7", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": ".A\\n^c1v?5J\\\\UAWoo(Ij", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "MotlN t r(eafsar 5e\\nthe tiny ik nizens of tlie wood, at the entrance to this high-arclied and dusky\\navenue, so suggestive of tlie enchanted groves of which Ariosto and Tasso\\nsung, let us sit down and make a sketch.\\nNorth of the Enclianted Woods are the Cathedral Woods, and still\\nfarther away rises in airy outlines the huge but graceful pyramid of Mount\\nKearsarge. The views to be had of this mountain all through tlie valley\\nare innumerable, and without exception delightful for Kearsarge is, as some\\none has said, a mountain with a soul in it. It is not a very high peak,\\nin comparison with the monarchs that guard the Notch, but is so placed\\nthat its three thousand feet show through all the landscape to the utmost\\nadvantage. It is easily ascended, and there is a liouse on its summit that\\nis open for a time in mid-summer.\\nOil. lift thy head, thou mountain lone,\\nAmi mate thee with the sun\\nThy ro.sy clouds are valeward hlmvn.\\nThy stars that near at midnight shone,\\n(Jone heavenward, one hy one.\\nAnd half of earth, and half of .air.\\nThou risest vast, and gray, and bare,\\nAnd crowned with glory.\\nOne bright warm morning we walked a little more than a mile and a half\\nto Echo Lake, which lies near the northern end of Jloat Mountain, and is\\nwatched over pn its western side by two of the famous leilges which extend\\nfor several miles along the valley. These cliffs are shagged with wood\\nand highly picturesque. The lake is a lovely little mirror of the skies.\\n11", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Here we drank in balm and quietness amid surroundings the same that the\\nIndian hunter found, centuries ago, when panting in the chase he came\\nsuddenly upon this rare scene of sylvan loveliness. How limpid the waters,\\nsave when darkening near the lofty cliffs, broken by the leaping fish, and\\noccasionally touched by the kissing breeze. Lift your voice and count the\\nsweet resonances that are thrown successively back from rock and wood\\nand glen.\\nXot far from the Cathedral Ledge is Diana s Baths, where a mountain\\nbrook dashes and slides downward over long sheets and shelves of granite,\\nwith here and there a bright little cascade, or a deep water-worn pool cut\\nin the solid rock, and around which the swirling stream rushes in sparkling\\neddies, polishing the ledges to a glassy smoothness. One charming spot,\\nthough not everybody has seen it or can easily find it, is up among the thick\\nwoods through which Elm Brook finds its tortuous and mysterious way, a\\nlittle south of the White Horse Ledge. Here is a loud and white-robed\\nwaterfall. Thompson s Falls well repay the toil of a visit to those who\\nhave the courage and the limbs to find it.\\nA pleasant drive, with an interesting object in view, is north about six\\nmiles, a little beyond Glen Station, to the Bartlett Bowlder, which is near\\nthe roadside on an elevation above the Saco. It stands, a huge bulk, poised\\nupon a few smaller bowlders, just where it was left in some mighty land-\\nslide perhaps before Adam delved and Eve span monumental of an\\nearlier world. Leaving the Bowlder, following the road south tlirough the\\ncovered bridge over the Saco, and taking an easterly course overlooking the\\nvalley, we gaze enraptured upon a magnificent panorama.\\n15", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "4\\nr**^*^ n\\nCH", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Mountains stern and desolate,\\nBut in the majesty of distance now\\nSet off, and to our view appearing fair\\nOf aspect, witli aerial aspect clad.\\nAnd beautified with morning s purple\\nbeams.\\nAfter a while we come to Humplirey s Ledge, about two miles north of\\nthe Cathedral Ledge. Here is to be seen, high up on the front of the cliff,\\nfacing the east, the curious and much-visited Pitman s Arch. From the\\ncavern inside this noble Gothic arch one may look out across the tree-tops\\nbelow, and over the bends of the silvery Saco, flashing through its sweet\\nintervales, and so on to the tall mountains that enwall the vale and raise\\ntheir dark sierras against the sky. The toji of Humphrey s Ledge may be\\nreached by carriage. It is a hard climb, but the view from the top amply\\nrepays the climber.\\nTouched by a li,i;ht that hath no name,\\nA glory never sung.\\nAloft on sky and mountain wall\\nAre God s great pictures hung.\\nWe sought in our rambles the i)icturesque and interesting localities south\\nof the village, between the Green Hills and the Saco. They occur chiefly\\nalong the course of a winding, gurgling, and sometimes dashing stream that\\nhas its rise at the foot of Green ^Mountain, and, after flowing a little more\\nthan two miles, delivers itself into the broad bosom of the Saco. This is\\nArtist s Brook. It abounds in all the captivating features of a moiuitain\\nlirook. Xow it hurries, and anon it moves slowly like a cajiricious child\\nmeditating some new freak it tumbles down the woody stee])s it widens\\ninto whitening shallows it goes straight forward; it turns and twists\\nabout at times it wears a sober look, and at times it laughs gleefully up\\nthrough the interlacing brandies of overhanging trees; it seeks the shadows;\\nit dances or sleeps in the sunshine.\\n19", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "1\\nKkrvj^ir^^-", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "I steal by lawns ami gf-i^sy plots.\\nI sliiie by hazel covers\\nI move the sweet forget-me-nots\\nI hat f;row for happy lovers.\\nI slip. I slide, I Rloom, 1 glance,\\nAmong my skimming swallows;\\nI make the netted sunbeam ilance\\nAgainst my sandy shallows.\\nTwo points of special interest to lovers of tlie iiictiires(ine, aloiiL; this\\ncharming stream, are Artist s Falls and the nei^hljoiiiood of the old mill\\na favorite sketching-ground of artists. Tlie Falls are at the foot of\\nPeaked Mountain, about a mile east of the road. AVheji seen to the best\\nadvantage, in exquisite tangles of foliage and light, thej ju.stify their\\nreputation. The hrook, says Drake, flowing first over a smooth granite\\nledge, collects in a little pool below, out of which the pure water filters\\n23", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "through bowhlers aud among glittering pebbles to a gorge between two rocks,\\ndown which it phinges. The beauty of this cascade consists iu its wayward-\\nness. Now it is a thin sheet, flowing demurely along now it breaks out\\nin uncontrollable antics and at length, as if tired of this sport, darts like\\nan arrow down the rocky fissure, and is a mountain brook again.\\nOne of the pictures which are forever a part of the soid s wealth is that\\nobtained at some well-chosen spot, of the choicest section of the famous\\nIntervale. Looking north, across this Edenic scene, as soft as the landscape\\nof a dream, above the lowlands that once constituted the bed of a vast flood\\nof waters, nowhere is the unapproachable grandeur of Jlount AVashington\\nmore fully manifested. Over the lesser heights of the middle distance,\\nthe great peak lords it with undisputed sway. The bold and firm, though\\ngradual, lines of ascent culminating at the apex, extend over leagues of\\nsky. Another scene which for us hangs high in memory s gallery is that\\nof the Saco Kiver by moonlight.\\nSweet stream it were a, fate divine,\\nTill this world s toils ainl t.asks were done,\\nTo go, like those bright tloods of thine.\\nRefreshing all, enslaved by none.\\nTo pass through scenes of calm and strife,\\nSinging, like thee, with holy niirlli.\\nAnd close in peace a varieil life,\\nI nsullied by one stain of earth.\\n27", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "H 106 89 4", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "-^hiP\\n.0^^\\nI 5 O (V^\\nf^ fe^:", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "bv\\n^6*\\n.-i^^..\\nj ^n\\nWJC^; s\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^ -.^ig; ^JIW/ A .^i^. *5.\\nTV\u00c2\u00bb* ,tf\\n4 c\\nA aN\\n-^^L\\nc^\\ni?\u00e2\u0080\u009e.^\\nHECKMAN\\nBINDERY INC. |gl\\n,^^^OCT 89\\nI ^S^ MANCHESTER,\\ni;W INDiAN A 46962 I\\n.A", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2662", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "picturesquenorth00webs_0046.jp2"}}