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Wi lit hr op says in his pleasant ’/ay. - 
Ktaadn’ s self is finer tnan what Ktaad.ii sees. Ktaad.ii 
is distinct, and its view is indistinct. It is a vague panarama, 
a mappy, unmethodic maze of water and broods, very roomy, very /asu, 
very simple, — and these are capital qualities, — out a±so quite 
monotonous. A lover of largeness and scope has the proper emotions 
stirred, but a lover of variety very soon finds himself counting the 
lakes. It is a wide view, and it is a proud thing, fior a mail six feet 
or less high to feel that he himself, standing on something lie himself 
has climbed, and having Ktaadn under his feet for a mere convience, can 
see ail Maine. It "does not make Maine less but the spectator more, 
and that is a useful moral result. Maine’s face thus exposed has 
no features $ there are no great mountains visible, none that seem 
more than green hillocks in the distance. Besides sky, Ktaadn s 
view contains only the two prideal necessities wood and water. 
Nowhere have I seen such breadth of solemn forest, gloomy, were it 
not for the cheerful interruption of many fair lakes and brights ways 
of river linking them. " (/* 2-3 3 ) 
