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On the other hand, when in early summer there is a dreamy stillness 

 in the air, and the foliage on tree and shrub has the freshness of spring, 

 the placid lake, of all places else, soothes and brings a calm quiet to the 

 mind ; and, as a drowsy forgetfulness of things objective comes over us, 

 and we are wafted away to indulge in such delicious reveries, then, when 

 again we are conscious that this physical frame languishes unless it is 

 nourished by something more substantial than dreams, we regret the 

 condition of our physical existence, and almost wish that life itself were 

 a dream. 



To point out places of interest, where those who have a love for the 

 grand and the beautiful can feast and be filled, rather than to describe 

 the scenery, will be our object in the following pages. 



If a person delights in primeval forests, he will certainly be charmed 

 with the northern part of New Hampshire. A journey of a day and a 

 half from Connecticut lake, through an unbroken forest, will take a per- 

 son to Crown monument, which is at the extreme north-east corner of 

 the state. It is on the water-shed between the waters of the St. Law- 

 rence and the streams running south into the Atlantic, and it is so called 

 because a monument was placed there by the commissioners who estab- 

 lished the boundary between the states and the provinces. From a ridge 

 of land 2568 feet above the level of the sea, where, looking northward, 

 the land slopes towards the St. Lawrence, and southward, towards the 

 Atlantic, the view must be extensive. In either direction we look over 

 only illimitable forests, except that in the dim distance, a little to the east 

 of north, there is a small settlement, probably at the north end of Me- 

 gantic lake, otherwise the view embraces a boundless forest. Immedi- 

 ately north, the slope is quite gradual, and, as it stretches northward, the 

 country seems like a plain extending to the horizon. To the north-east 

 is Saddle mountain, with hills and ridges ; to the north-west, Megantic 

 mountain rises as from an immense plain. Embraced in the view north- 

 ward are the head waters of the St. Francis and Chaudiere rivers, while 

 east and west is the high ridge that forms the water-shed. The view 

 directly south is limited, for a mountain ridge runs from the Magallo- 

 way directly west into New Hampshire. To the south-west, the high 

 ridge that encircles the basin where the many branches of the Magallo- 

 way have their source, obstructs the view in that direction. To the 



