upon a sea of congenial talk they said they had not seen an educated lady for two years and pressed me to go and visit them i rode home on dr s horse after dark to find neither fire nor light in the cabin mrs c had gone back saying those english talked just like savages i couldn t understand a word they said i made a fire and a light with some fat and a of rag and came in to discuss my visit and to a k me a question concerning a matter which had roused the latent curiosity of the whole family i had told him he said that i knew no one but his woman told him that dr h and i spoke constantly of a mrs whom we both knew and disliked and who was settled as we said not far off he had never heard of her he said and he was the of the and there was a man up here from who said he was sure there was not a mrs in the district unless it was a woman who went by two names the wife and family had then come in and i felt completely i longed to tell that it was he and such as he there or anywhere a lady s life in t with narrow hearts bitter tongues and harsh judgments who were the true mrs checking lawful freedom of speech and making men for a word but i how myself from the difficulty not the rest of the evening has been spent in preparing to cross the mountains says he knows the way well and that we shall sleep tomorrow at the foot of long s peak mrs of having consented and up visions of what the family will come to when left and of among the cows and i could tell her that the eldest son and the hired man have to close the saw and go on a hunting and fishing expedition that the cows will stray and that the individual spoken respectfully of as mr will make in the hen house nameless region rocky mountains september this is indeed far removed it seems farther away from you than any place i have been to yet except the frozen top of the of it is so little by man that if one were compelled to live here in solitude one might truly say of the bears deer and which abound their is shocking to me it is the world of big game just now a heavy headed with horns fully three feet long stood and looked v the rocky at me and then quietly trotted away he was so near that i heard the grass crisp with frosty under his feet bears stripped the within a few yards of us last night now two lovely blue birds with on their heads are picking about within a stone s throw this is the great lone land until lately the hunting ground of the indians and not yet settled or traversed or likely to be so owing to the want of water a solitary hunter has built a log cabin up here which he for a few weeks for the purpose of hunting but all the region is and mostly it is a m the sun has not yet risen high enough to melt the frost and the air is clear bright and cold the stillness is profound i hear nothing but the far off mysterious roaring of a river in a deep which we spent two hours last night in trying to find the horses are lost and if i were disposed to retort upon my companions the term they invariably apply to me i should now write with bitter emphasis that man and woman have gone in search of them the scenery up here is glorious with beauty and in the elastic air fatigue has dropped off from me this is no region for and women only for a few and bear hunters at times and its freshness gives me new life i by any words give you an idea of a lady s in so from any that you or i have ever seen this is an valley of grass and flowers of and sloping and beds of dry streams and of pines placed and mountain sides the pines breaking into as they come down upon the park and the mountains breaking into of bold grey rock as they pierce the blue of the sky a single of bright green grass on which dwarf of the scarlet poison oak look like beds of slopes towards the west as if it must lead to the river which we seek deep vast all lie in purple pine clad rising into the top of storm r peak all run too and all the beauty and glory are but the frame out of which pure in its lustre as glorious a mountain as the sun red in either � the lonely ghastly imposing double summit of long s peak the of northern this is a view to which nothing needs to be added this is truly the lodge in some vast wilderness for which one often sighs when in the midst gray s peak and s peak have their but after � them au under favourable aspects long s peak stands in my memory as it does in that vast of mountains alone in imperial grandeur thb mountains of a bustle at once sordid and trivial in spite of dr johnson these monstrous do the imagination and the understanding this scenery my soul now the mountains � nay exceed � the dream of my childhood it is magnificent and the air is life giving i should like to spend some time in these higher regions but i know that this will turn out an expedition owing to the stupidity and of there is a most romantic place called 