33S PEAIRIE AND FOREST. 



forewarned is to be forearmed, and now, if you fall into 

 the snare, blame not the writer. 



The voyage by water, distance fourteen or fifteen 

 miles, is charming. After leaving the place of em- 

 barkation you proceed about two miles down the 

 Cambridge, which is here dead and sluggish,* till you 

 reach the entrance to Lake Umbagog, when your 

 vessel's prow is pointed for distant hills fringed with 

 giant timber. On either side, islands after islands dot 

 the bosom of the water, while verdant mountains and 

 primeval forests stretch far, far beyond the limits 

 allotted to vision. The two or three hours which are 

 taken to cross the lake will flit by rapidly, if you have 

 appreciation of what is sublime, of what Nature in 

 her grand conceptions formed, the impressions in- 

 dented 011 the tablets of your memory will doubtless 

 "be permanent. It matters not how sceptical and un- 

 believing some may be, place them where the giant 

 works of the Creator are visible, and how insignificant 

 for ever after must they view the puny efforts and con- 

 structions of their fellow-beings, and cease to doubt that 

 there is One above omnipotent and all-powerful ! 



Fail not, on reaching the centre of the lake, to face 

 about and look for the White Mountains,! and if the 

 day is clear, ample will be your recompense, for, 

 towering high above all other competitors, they smile 

 gloriously over the landscape, softened into a dreamy 

 reality by distance, and furrowed on their summits by 

 lines of virgin snow, reflecting a thousand brilliant 

 prismatic colourings. But the irrevocable pace of 

 time glides on, and pleasure flits with rapid stride. 



* Once a favourite haunt of moose. 



t Mount Washington is six thousand feet high. 



