Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230040424
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Book Synopsis The Granite Monthly; a New Hampshire Magazine Volume 24 by : Anonymous
Download or read book The Granite Monthly; a New Hampshire Magazine Volume 24 written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... its silver setting. How it gleamed afar over the shoulder of Sandwich Dome! Paugus and Sandwich Dome, and especially Whiteface and Passaconaway. lofty and massive, blending together in outline, and seeming from this point as one, were dark and sullen in their aspect, and not once smiled in our presence, while Mount Kinsman, of the Franconia group, though at first cold and blue in the distance, warmed up at length and flashed back a message of gladness as we waited. Perhaps the most kingly of all was Lafayette, the peak that stands sentinel over the upper Pemigewasset valley, the deep, clear-cut Franconia Notch, and the Old Man of the Mountain. Towering 5,259 feet above the sea, snow-capped, ribbed, and seamed by winter's frosts and summer's showers and lightning, it was a sight worth a day's hard climb, if necessary, to see. Unspeakably grand it was when, being still in shadow, the sun shot out his shafts of piercing light and changed its summit into a mass of radiant beauty. Chocorua, too, probably the most alpine of all the peaks in view, was now dark and forbidding, and anon brilliant and sparkling in the wintry sunshine, piercing the sky with its pure and unsullied snow. A more inspiring scene I think I never witnessed. Of course we missed the sparkling water of the lowland lakes and ponds that charm the eye in summer, for now they were covered with ice and snow, and, except for their level surfaces, looked like the surrounding country. Towns and villages, too, were not so clearly visible as in summer, but one who loves the mountains for their own sake can easily forego sights of that kind. The thing that a mountain best reveals is other mountains, and this day the earth fairly bristled with them. Useful as are the mountains in the...