218 Miscellaneous Notices of Mountain Scenery^ ^c. 



The following notices may supply some of these deficien- 

 cies, in the particular districts mentioned. The short memo- 

 randa by the Editor, are taken from a letter to his family, 

 written during an excursion to the White Mountains of New 

 Hampshire, in May, 1 828 ; the letter of the late Rev. Mr. Wil- 

 cox, was published two years ago in the public journals, and 

 has been recently embodied in a printed memoir of his hfe ;*^ 

 and the communication of Mr. Baldwin, was made at the 

 request of the Editor, who was the more ready to ask it, 

 because he had not seen any notice of slides in the moun- 

 tains of Vermont. 



1 . Extract from a letter of the Editor. 



Conway, (N. H.) at the mouth of the Gorge of the White Moun- f 

 tains, twenty seven miles from the Notch, May 18, 1828. J 



Our ride, of forty miles, from Concord to Centre Harbor, 

 carried us through several flourishing manufacturing villages; 

 among the rest, Meredith Bridge. We passed Friday, and Sat- 

 urday forenoon at Lake Winipiseogee ; on Friday afternoon 

 we went two miles out upon the lake, but the wind being un- 

 favorable, we returned. On Saturday morning, we ascended 

 the Red Mountain, nearly two thousand feet high ; the wind- 

 ing ascent occupies nearly two miles, and we were four hours 

 on the excursion, but it richly repaid us. How much I wished 



you could have been there, and I thought that would 



have found grand subjects for her pencil. Imagine yourself on 

 the very peak of this lofty granite mountain — naked and deso- 

 late, except here and there, a few mosses and stinted shrubs — 

 its barren rocks, broken, water-worn, and decomposed by 

 the tempests of ages — the splendid lake Winipiseogee, with 

 its three or four hundred islands, sprinkled in a crystal ex- 

 panse of twenty five miles long by eight broad — the Squam 

 lake, and several other beautiful lakes, occupying also differ- 

 ent points in the view — and a vast billowy ocean of high 

 mountains, with their grand, intersecting curves, forming 

 a complete panorama of the sublimest mountain scenery. 

 I knew not how to leave it, and think that to a lover of 

 grand scenery, and to an admirer of God's creative power, it 

 is well worth a journey from New Haven. In the afternoon 



* It appeared so valuable and graphic, as to be worthy of being preserved in 

 this Journal, in connexion with Sie other papers. 



