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Camps and Tramps About Ktaadn. 



KTAADN, FROM THE SOUTH SHORE OF THE LAKE 



The mountain was now growing in our sight, and our artists 

 were already making finished pencil studies and catching the ever- 

 changing tints. Few views of mountains in any country exceed that 

 from the southern shore of Lake Ktaadn, in combined grandeur and 

 beauty, — the great pyramid, ten miles away on the left, ever chang- 

 ing in the varying moisture of air and shadow of cloud, brilliant and 

 rosy in early sunshine while twilight still broods over the valley; 

 each rock-rib, and rift searched out by the full blaze of mid-day, 

 opalescent in the mistier air of afternoon, and then a harmonious mass 

 of blended purple and blue outlined against the sunset and mirrored 

 in the lake ; its foreground a densely wooded plain of dark ever- 

 greens, broken here and there on the margin by tangled underwood 

 of every hue of green, already richly flecked with autumnal color. 

 In front, on the near opposite shore, abruptly rises Mount Turner, 



